In late July, the British newspaper The Telegraph published an article accusing Jason Arday, a professor at the University of Cambridge, of being involved in a plagiarism controversy. A scandal that splashed a millennia-old prestigious institution and permanently tarnished the academic's reputation. How could it be that, despite occupying world rankings, it had a professor accused of lying on his resume?

For years he was an academic superstar, a prodigy. But after rumors that what he boasted of was a lie came to light, he suddenly became a pariah, an outcast. On Friday, Jason Arday, 41, was found dead at his home in circumstances that have not yet been clarified. Everything suggests he committed suicide.