You don't think this firing is a legitimate threat to academic free speech?
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"Academic free speech" doesn't guarantee a right to put forward glaringly illogical arguments. Many academics get away with this w/o losing their jobs, but when those arguments are recycled from eugenicists/apartheid/etc, the university has a duty of care imo.
So, you support universities firing faculty if they make arguments that you consider 'glaringly illogical'? What if conservative university administrators considered some humanities scholarship to be 'glaringly illogical', or recycled from Marxists/'sexual degenerates'/etc?
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Genuinely curious (not a gotcha question): Would you defend a evolutionary biologist being let go for peddling creationism?
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It's inherently part of the job to make theoretically strong and logically sound arguments in our work, right? If an organisation deems an employee is failing to meet key job requirements, they're often fired.
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I, for one, find that
@EPoe187 arguments use excellent logic. That they may unsettle some is, of course, the way science has often been-Galileo, Newton, Darwin, etc.
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And sorry, to answer your hypothetical, yes, I've seen plenty of academic work from more traditionally liberal perspectives where I wondered how the heck the author had a job in academia.
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Separate issue, but is there any line you would ever draw on academic freedom, or is it an absolute right? Of course there's an element of subjectivity, but I think this is held to a high standard given the # of atrocities that his arguments have been used to support.
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