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Harvard Humanist Leader Dismissed for Falsifying Credentials

The Harvard Crimson reports:

A leader of a secular organization at Harvard was fired last week after admitting that she falsified the credentials she presented to the group, according to a story in The New York Times.

Teresa MacBain claimed to the Humanist Community at Harvard (HCH) and in press coverage—including a profile by The New York Times—that she received her divinity degree from Duke University. But after the Times published the profile, the newspaper said that the director of communications at the Duke Divinity School, Audrey P. Ward, contacted the Times stating that the school had no record of MacBain having attended or earned a degree.

… MacBain was hired in August to lead the Harvard branch of the Humanist Community Project—a nationwide initiative that seeks to expand the humanist community—a year after the former Methodist minister came into the spotlight for declaring that she no longer believed in God.

Let he without sin cast the first stone.

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