{"id":516657,"date":"2022-11-27T02:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/living-hell-and-the-destruction-of-academic-freedom\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T02:26:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:26:54","slug":"living-hell-and-the-destruction-of-academic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/living-hell-and-the-destruction-of-academic-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Living hell\u2019 and the destruction of academic freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406efd55052\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406efd55052\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/living-hell-and-the-destruction-of-academic-freedom\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Living_hell_and_the_destruction_of_academic_freedom%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;\u2018Living hell\u2019 and the destruction of academic freedom&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Living_hell_and_the_destruction_of_academic_freedom%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;\u2018Living hell\u2019 and the destruction of academic freedom&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-Stanford-U.1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>If universities don\u2019t protect free speech and open debate, they\u2019re no better than finishing schools, if not outright propaganda factories \u2014 serving not the nation or the search for truth, but simply the dominant ideology. But that\u2019s increasingly what US colleges have become, routinely closing the door to dissent by shutting down professors, researchers and students who challenge the received wisdom. How many still deserve the vast public support they still receive?<\/p>\n<p>The latest example: Stanford professor of medicine Jay Bhattacharya, who with profs from Harvard and Oxford co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration in 2020, early in the pandemic, flagging the huge cost of lockdowns, both medical and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Some  16,000 medical and public-health scientists (many of them highly credentialed), 47,000 medical practitioners and 871,000 \u201cconcerned citizens\u201d signed on \u2014 making it plain that nothing <em>resembling <\/em>a scientific consensus endorsed the course much of the nation had taken.<\/p>\n<p>Which infuriated the powers that be. Dr. Anthony Fauci, with huge grant-making powers as boss of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, slammed the declaration as \u201cnonsense\u201d \u2014 joined by other key public-health officials and prompting much of the media to ignore or even suppress the debate.<\/p>\n<p>And the rulers of academia followed suit. As Bhattacharya said at a talk this month, his life soon became \u201ca living hell\u201d \u2014 and his university, Stanford, failed to back him. He not only  got death threats and hate mail, he also faced a \u201cdeeply hostile work environment,\u201d making clear that \u201cacademic freedom is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Stanford really, truly were committed to academic freedom,\u201d it would\u2019ve \u201cworked to make sure that there were debates and discussions, seminars where these ideas were discussed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Data on lockdowns and COVID deaths suggests Bhattacharya &amp; Co. were right: Sweden, Finland and Norway, for example, rejected extended closures and saw notably less \u201cexcess mortality\u201d than most other European nations. Here in America, largely open Florida fared as well or better than largely closed New York and California. <\/p>\n<p>In short, Fauci and other public health leaders should\u2019ve at least <em>considered <\/em>the possible dangers of their preferred course. \u201cShut up\u201d isn\u2019t supposed to be a winning argument in the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, academia\u2019s been suppressing \u201cheretics\u201d for a long time now. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Portland State, Peter Boghossian became a pariah just for calling attention to the lack of diversity of opinions on campus, a response that proved his point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot\u00a0had an MIT speech canceled and his name removed from academic papers and from a National <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Foundation grant proposal. His sin? Coauthoring an op-ed arguing that admissions policies should be based on merit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of April, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/research-learn\/scholars-under-fire\">had logged<\/a> 591 cases of retaliation toward profs with \u201cunpopular\u201d ideas since 2015. Medical schools have been forced to adopt woke policies and programs. Several <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realcleareducation.com\/articles\/2022\/11\/16\/when_students_lack_peer-to-peer_connections_they_self-censor_110787.html\">polls have shown<\/a> that even students in high school and college feel uncomfortable expressing their honest views in public.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s alarming: The <em>last <\/em>place cancel culture should flourish is on campus. Higher education is supposed to foster fresh thinking, not enforce any ideology except the classical liberal ideals of free and open debate. Universities can\u2019t serve society as a whole if fear of backlash keeps brilliant thinkers from sharing their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcademia is supposed to encourage free thinking, not enforce one orthodoxy,\u201d contends John Tomasi, the president of pro-free-thinking Heterodox Academy. \u201cGreat minds do not always think alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, unpopular ideas won\u2019t always prove right \u2014 but even when wrong, they can expose faults in the previous consensus. And if they go unheard, true progress becomes impossible.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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