A Stanford University professor says \u0022academic freedom is dead.\u0022
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya previously challenged COVID-19 lockdowns and says he’s been heavily criticized sine questioning Dr. Anthony Fauci’s orders.As the Canadian national soccer teams head to their respective FIFA World Cups, Derek Van Diest will be on the scene to cover all the action. Expect expert insights and analysis in your inbox every Tuesday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
, which said the lockdowns were damaging. The release of the letter left him with no support from his colleagues, he said, according to“The basic premise is that if you don’t have protection and academic freedom in the hard cases, when a faculty member has an idea that’s unpopular among some of the other faculty — powerful faculty, or even administration … if they don’t protect it in that case then you don’t have academic freedom at all,” Bhattacharya told FOX.
“The policy of the university, when push comes to shove, is to permit this kind of hostile work environment. What if there had been open scientific debate on campus, sponsored by the university of this? So that people could know there were legitimate alternate views?” He later told FOX: “If Stanford really truly were committed to academic freedom, they would have … worked to make sure that there were debates and discussions, seminars, where these ideas were discussed among faculty.”
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