[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally posted by transplant99@Feb 9 2005, 11:47 AM
But the issue of him being paid by tax payers, so he shouldn't speak his mind, is wrong.

It isn't when it's simply an opinion and has no basis of fact. Geez, here I thought University was about learning, not what someone else "thinks".

You just better have the proof to back up your statements.

Thanks for agreeing.

There are a lot of fields of study about what people think.
Any sort of literature, or philosophy is about opinions. I'd like to see you prove the meaning of a poem.

Do I disagree with the guy? Absolutely, I think he's a nutball, but saying he shouldn't be able go give his opinion (however stupid it is) because he works at a university is just wrong. Look at guys like Galeleo, they got persecuted for speaking their minds and not teaching what the scientific community (in his case also the church) accepted as true. Now I'm in no way suggesting that this guy is in any way like Galeleo, but people that think that professors sholdn't be able to voice a desenting opinion have been responsible for a great many setbacks in almost every field of study.
Anyone who isn't already leaning towards crackpot themselves is going to see this guy and his theories for what they are, a bunch of groundless yammerings by some nutball. In the long run, this guy isn't going to do any harm other than p*ssing off the famalies of those who died, and forcing the rest of us to hear Fox News pundits bitch about him.