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American scholars who have criticized the problem of Harvard Professor Ramsey's thesis on comfort women met with Grandma Lee Yong-soo.

Scholars are criticizing fake scholarship as a greater harm than fake news, and a fellow professor at Ramsayer argued that his thesis broke stereotypes and that there was no big problem.



This is Kim Soo-hyung, correspondent from Washington.



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American scholars who have criticized Harvard University Professor Ramsey's distorting dissertation on comfort women victims met with grandmother Lee Yong-soo through burns.



Scholars have criticized Ramsey's thesis for being incapable of packaging for academic freedom, and for being more damaging than fake news.




[Alexis Durden/Professor of History at the University of Connecticut: If the evidence is not honest or there is no evidence, you cannot enjoy academic freedom.]



[Richard Painter/Former White House Ethics Attorney: Fake scholarship is more damaging than fake news." I would like to emphasize.]



Grandma Lee Yong-soo expressed her gratitude for the movement of American academia to find out the truth.



[Yongsu Lee/Comfort Women Victims: I will win because you fight to restore the honor of not only us, but also many other countries around the world.]



Harvard graduate students also made a statement and Professor

Ramsey

reduced the severity of atrocities against the victims of comfort women. Criticized.



In the midst of this growing criticism, a fellow professor who was deeply involved in Ramsay's thesis writing has made a statement to SBS on condition of anonymity.



He argued that Professor Ramsey's thesis made some mistakes, but it wasn't a decisive matter and it was a brave content that broke stereotypes.



Although controversy over his thesis continues, Harvard University Professor Ramsey is known to be blocking contact with the outside world and preparing a rebuttal against scholars' refutations.



(Video coverage: Oh Jeong-sik, video editing: Lee Seung-hee)