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Academics defend Cambridge don who lost his fellowship for offending leftists


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2019 May 12, 7:27pm   534 views  4 comments

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7020645/Academics-hit-defend-Cambridge-don-accused-publishing-racist-pseudoscience.html

Noah Carl, 28, had his fellowship withdrawn from St Edmund's College last week
His writings linking IQ and genetics prompted 586 academics to sign open letter
Now, 606 academics signed counter-petition supporting the young scholar

Academics have launched a counter-petition to defend a controversial Cambridge don accused of publishing 'racist pseudoscience' in an escalating row over freedom of speech.

Social scientist Noah Carl had his fellowship withdrawn from St Edmund's College last week, on the grounds that he allegedly collaborated with people who hold 'extremist views'.

His writings linking IQ and genetics prompted 586 academics to sign a letter to the prestigious institution, saying his work was 'ethically suspect' and 'methodologically flawed.'

But now, 606 academics have signed an open letter in support of the the young scholar in online magazine Quillette.

Penned by Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann, she said: 'We live at a time where academic freedom is under threat from ideologues and activists of all persuasions.

'The latest threat comes from St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where administrators appear to have capitulated to a mob of activists (students and academics) who mounted a campaign to have a young scholar fired for 'problematic' research.'


This is good news. There are still academics willing to support science in spite of Leftist extremism.

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1   Patrick   2019 May 12, 7:32pm  

I love this guy. Dry wit.

Britain's vote to leave the EU is decidedly not without precedent. The country has left the mainland of Europe on precisely three prior occasions, each time carefully weighing up the costs and benefits before doing so. In the Brexit of spring 1940, Britain politely declined to participate in a German-led effort toward European political union. In King Henry's Brexit of 1534, the country sought to regain competitiveness by unshackling itself from the yoke of papal regulation. And in the original Brexit of 10,000–6,500 BC, the country prudently chose to increase border security, while at the same time putting its long-suffering fishermen back to work.
2   Ceffer   2019 May 12, 8:49pm  

Putting stupid people where smart people are supposed to be doesn't make the stupid people smart. The stupid people just dismantle what the smart people built because they are angry at it and don't understand it.
3   HeadSet   2019 May 13, 7:20am  

Patrick says
I love this guy. Dry wit.

Britain's vote to leave the EU is decidedly not without precedent. The country has left the mainland of Europe on precisely three prior occasions, each time carefully weighing up the costs and benefits before doing so. In the Brexit of spring 1940, Britain politely declined to participate in a German-led effort toward European political union. In King Henry's Brexit of 1534, the country sought to regain competitiveness by unshackling itself from the yoke of papal regulation. And in the original Brexit of 10,000–6,500 BC, the country prudently chose to increase border security, while at the same time putting its long-suffering fishermen back to work.


He left out the "brexit" of not cooperating with Napoleon's effort to form a European Union.
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 May 13, 11:54am  

And the Brexit of not participating in the Counter-Reformation and Absolute Monarchism of King James II around 1688, who was supported by Europe.

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