i have listened to people that were fired for letting
the wrong opinion get published.
again that is why i think much of what the public is
fed is very suspect.
--- Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> You are spot on about academia and freedom of
> speech. I was trained that
> we had "academic freedom" in higher education. That
> was until the
> politically correct crowd took over. My students
> were always warning me that
> I was going to get in trouble for being non-pc. It
> is even worse in
> publishing. Each journal has its "good ol' boy"
> network. If your work does
> not conform to the conventional wisdom, i.e, the
> zseitgeist; it never saw
> the light of day.
>
> Bobby
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ken barber" <[log in to unmask]>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Here's an article on the
> preparedness of FEMA.
>
>
> > some do publish, but then some are intimidated
> into
> > not publishing and some are punished for
> publishing
> > something that is "out of the mainsteam." academia
> has
> > less free speech than any other sector of american
> > society. i'd be supprised if it is not more like
> that
> > in great britian than you'd care to admit, but,
> that
> > is not a knowlege statement, just a hunch.
> >
> > --- Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wednesday 07 Sep 2005 00:44, ken barber wrote:
> >> > oh, there is one more thing. there are quite a
> few
> >> > academic types here that are pretty much
> censored
> >> by
> >> > the establishment when they present an opposing
> >> view.
> >> > that always couses flags in my mind. if you got
> an
> >> > opposing view that you consider foolish, you
> let
> >> itgo
> >> > public and let the public draw the opinion that
> it
> >> is
> >> > foolish, but, if you censor it, then it is
> >> obviously
> >> > going to make us ostriches wonder just why you
> are
> >> > afraid of the opposing view.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi Ken,
> >>
> >> Sorry Ken, I don't undestand this.
> >>
> >> I thought "academic types" published "results" in
> >> academic journals, the
> >> public (who would probably here of it through the
> >> general media, rather than
> >> the original report) may well think it foolish.
> It
> >> would no matter a jot to
> >> the author, his concern is that his peers accept
> his
> >> results and hopefully
> >> reproduce them.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Deri
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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