LGBTQ MAKES UP HER BEST FRIEND, THEN KILLS HER OFF!
Friday, BethAnn McLaughlin, announced that a friend, @Sciencing_Bi on Twitter, died from COVID-19.
Concerning @Sciencing_Bi, McLaughlin posted, “She was a fierce protector of people. No one has ever had my back like that.”
The Sciencing_Bi persona had her own Twitter account and also was frequently referred to by McLaughlin on Twitter.
Sciencing_Bi, who always remained anonymous but identified as an anthropologist at Arizona State University and member of the Hopi Tribe, made a “million first nations Indigenous contacts for MeTooSTEM,” McLaughlin added.
McLaughlin, a neuroscientist who says she lost her tenure bid at Vanderbilt University due to her activism against “harassholes,” has lots of Twitter followers. So did Sciencing_Bi, who sometimes defended McLaughlin against critics who said she was a toxic, controlling leader within MeTooSTEM. McLaughlin founded the advocacy group MeTooSTEM.
It turned out Sciencing_Bi was none of that. Because she didn’t exist. She was made up. By LGBTQ BethAnn McLaughlin.
Another hoax, another idiot. People who are admired as “smart” or “talented” often turn out to be neither. How can they not know that a lie, broadcast all over social media, will not be found out and they themself will be hammered?
“Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive.”
On her Twitter page, started in 2016, Sciencing_Bi claimed that she’d been sexually assaulted someone prominent in her field, (after other complaints against him became public.) In April she accused Arizona State of forcing her to teach in person during the pandemic.
She supposedly became infected with coronavirus as a result. Fellow academics followed her tweets from the sick bed, including this one from May: “ASU kept teachers, staff and students on campus until April. That’s well after we knew this was a killer disease. Many got COVID. Including me.”
Sciencing_Bi’s health declined through last week, when McLaughlin announced her death.
McLaughlin
“Please read her timeline,” McLaughlin wrote on Twitter.
McLaughlin continued her made up story about her made-up friend (these people have SERIOUS mental issues):
“Campus closed and she was in the hospital a week later. Be mad about COVID but be more mad that BIPOC* community is most vulnerable and underrepresented on campus. We are killing them.” McLaughlin also wrote that she and Sciencing_Bi texted often and had planned to get matching Indigenous tattoos. She also suggested that the two may have had a romantic relationship, tweeting, “Looking at her side of the bed and crying. Just a lot of crying. I literally can do nothing.” [RIGHT. NOTHING BUT SPINNING TALL TALES AND SLANDERING THE UNIVERSARY.]
*BIPOC is another goofy acronym, like LGBTQ. BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, People of Color.
McLaughlin later held a small online memorial service for Sciencing_Bi, and that’s when things begin to unravel.
Some…wanting to hold Arizona State accountable for the death of a faculty member due to teaching-related COVID-19, could find no death announcement or any other public clues about who she was.
Arizona State eventually put out a statement saying, “Unfortunately, this appears to be a hoax. We looked into this over the weekend and were unable to verify any connection with the university. We were in touch with several deans and faculty members and no one was able to identify the account or who might be behind it.”
Once, Sciencing_Bi even asked her supporters to send her cash through McLaughlin’s Venmo app account. The occasion for the request? Sciencing_Bi said her dean asked her if she’d taken a DNA test to prove her ancestry.
McLaughlin has been known a lying, troublemaking activist for years. It’s cost her jobs. In 2015, McLaughlin’s tenure application, at Vanderbilt, was paused “while a three-member Faculty Investigation Committee conducted a disciplinary probe of her for allegedly posting anonymous, derogatory tweets about colleagues.” When the investigation was completed and the tenure review process resumed, the dean called attention to “allegations of violations of the Faculty Standards of Conduct” by McLaughlin, and she was denied tenure in 2017. She sought to have the decision overturned. The decision to deny tenure was upheld and her employment at Vanderbilt ended in July of 2019.
Many in the academic community supported McLaughlin’s claim that she was the victim of retaliation after she testified against a former colleague who was accused in 2014 of sexual harassment. However, that colleague, neuroscientist Aurelio Galli, was ultimately found innocent of wrongdoing, which raises the question of whether McLaughlin’s testimony against him was credible.
She went too far this time. She made up a friend, maybe because she had no real ones. Then she killed off her friend, slandered ASU, was found out, and thus enraged all of her “Twitter friends”.
Looks like the last laugh is on McLaughlin.
