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
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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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