Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S...
by throwawayjava on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:20PM
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> MIT... science... There no way to do that effectively without considering as many points as possible.
Respectfully, exactly the opposite is the case. Ask any mathematician at a top university how many crackpot letters they have to throw out every year. Ask any biologist how much Real Work they would get done if they had a department half-full of young earth creationists.
Universities are bastions of free speech, but they are also inherently exclusionary. And places like MIT regularly let down that exclusionary guard to invite speech that explicitly interferes with the efficiency their institutional truth-finding mission. An admirable thing, IMO.
At universities, free speech serves a political purpose far more than it serves a scientific purpose.
Respectfully, exactly the opposite is the case. Ask any mathematician at a top university how many crackpot letters they have to throw out every year. Ask any biologist how much Real Work they would get done if they had a department half-full of young earth creationists.
Universities are bastions of free speech, but they are also inherently exclusionary. And places like MIT regularly let down that exclusionary guard to invite speech that explicitly interferes with the efficiency their institutional truth-finding mission. An admirable thing, IMO.
At universities, free speech serves a political purpose far more than it serves a scientific purpose.