Re:A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within aca...
by worrycue on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:22PM
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> If that’s good news or bad depends on where you stand on said political spectrum.
I think objectively it’s bad for everyone when free inquiry is hobbled by dogma.
I think people should have the right to be wrong in academia. I can think of no safer place to be wrong - there are real consequences when you are wrong in practice (e.g. as a politician) compared to being wrong in theory (e.g. as a professor not really in charge of anything)
I think objectively it’s bad for everyone when free inquiry is hobbled by dogma.
I think people should have the right to be wrong in academia. I can think of no safer place to be wrong - there are real consequences when you are wrong in practice (e.g. as a politician) compared to being wrong in theory (e.g. as a professor not really in charge of anything)