Several leftist academics and journalists reacted with anger, some blasting President Donald Trump, after the story of a Native American professor who contracted and died of coronavirus after her university forced her to teach a seminar amid the pandemic made the rounds on social media.
But, according to the university and other observers, the story of the Hopi professor and her covid death are a complete fabrication.
The Daily Caller reported on Aug. 4 that the Twitter accounts of Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin and the Hopi Arizona State University (ASU) professor known as @Sciencing_Bi were suspended by Monday morning for violating Twitter’s “spam and platform manipulation policies.”
The suspension came after McLaughlin, who is a former faculty member at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Matrix Biology, posted a lengthy eulogy for the Hopi professor, identified as @Sciencing_Bi, on July 31.