This piece appeared today in The National Post. It outlines the dramatic steps I think are necessary to restore free speech, academic freedom, & control of the curriculum by faculty at universities.
Without universities and college professors, we are no better than Hitler's or Putin's "Yes Men"... and for administrators and politicians to tell us professors and scientists what to research, how to interpret that research for the general public keeps reality isolated ONLY in the minds and brains of us scientists. Of course, this goes without saying and falls on deaf ears especially as to moronic religious sectors that can never understand that science is truly their friend in understanding the universe and their place in it. But that will always be the case as long as religion and lower Neanderthals are living, walking and voting among us...but good to remind professors and scientists to keep the faith...in scientific methodology and continue to be the brightest persons in the Cemetaries.
FYI: https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-tenured-professor-was-removed-from-the-classroom-over-a-pro-palestine-essay
Without universities and college professors, we are no better than Hitler's or Putin's "Yes Men"... and for administrators and politicians to tell us professors and scientists what to research, how to interpret that research for the general public keeps reality isolated ONLY in the minds and brains of us scientists. Of course, this goes without saying and falls on deaf ears especially as to moronic religious sectors that can never understand that science is truly their friend in understanding the universe and their place in it. But that will always be the case as long as religion and lower Neanderthals are living, walking and voting among us...but good to remind professors and scientists to keep the faith...in scientific methodology and continue to be the brightest persons in the Cemetaries.