Thursday, January 19, 2023

How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test - Tablet Magazine

How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test - Tablet Magazine  - BYJAY BHATTACHARYA 
  • Stanford ‘created an environment in which slander, threats, and abuse aimed at lockdown critics could flourish’
"We live in an age when a high public health bureaucrat can, without irony, announce to the world that if you criticize him, you are not simply criticizing a man.
You are criticizing “the science” itself.  
...The COVID-19 pandemic has apparently brought us full circle, with a public health clerisy having replaced the religious one as the singular source of unassailable truth.
...The analogy goes further, unfortunately. 
The same priests of public health that have the authority to distinguish heresy from orthodoxy also cast out heretics, just like the medieval Catholic Church did...

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