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Re:Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021) by pjc50 on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:47PM (#32228175)
Another non-partisan example: should academics have free speech to publish opinions they have clearly been paid to promote as if they were research? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/12/uber-paid-acade...
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Re:Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021) by bee_rider on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:38PM (#32228972)
I think "academics" who sell the reputation of their university to Uber on the cheap have very little to do with academic freedoms. This example seems a bit too obvious to me.
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Re:Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021) by Sin2x on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:20PM (#32230394)
That's academic fraud, a different thing.
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