3/n Now, part of this is because the academic being defended usually has not by any description been silenced. Nobel laureates and tenured professors at Stanford don't really need defending they can do it themselves
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14/n When you defend a powerful professor, his friends and colleagues will join you When you defend a post-doc who's been kicked out of a lab for blowing the whistle, you have to fight the powerful people who silenced them with no support
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15/n If we really care about the sanctity of open debate, we should be stopping attacks that punch down, not the rare occasion when a tenured professor's colleagues are mean to them in a way that has no real impact on their career
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16/n And look, I'm not writing any of this on my own behalf. I have by no possible definition of the word been "silenced" But I know plenty of people who kind of have
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17/n Some of them are public, not all of them want to be, but if you want examples
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It's also a nifty way to substitute greed for virtue signaling (hate the term).
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