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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

“The whole [academic] enterprise we’re engaged in rests on the ability to have open intellectual exchange about any topic and express our views honestly,” says Josh Dubnau, a neurobiologist at Stony Brook University and one of the letter’s authors. “Nothing he said was repugnant or hateful. There shouldn’t be consequences for minority views in academia.”

This guy is right, enforced groupthink is incompatible with an earnest effort to engage with reality as it is.