Professor Jason Arday claimed to have locked-in syndrome and testicular cancer in a book proposal for his memoir, it has emerged.
The anecdotes appeared in a 2024 proposal for Great and Unfortunate Things, which is due to be published next week, but not in the final version.
There are also other inconsistencies between the two versions of events in terms of dates and characters, US magazine The Atlantic reported.
In the proposal, Professor Arday, 41, recounted being struck by a car as a teenager and spending several months in a coma – whereas in the memoir he described simply finishing school and taking his
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