Your lazy post did not require engagement. Replying to concerns about a chilling effect on academic research, certain areas being verboten, by referencing Galileo as if that has any relevance to the conversation whatsoever... what is anyone even supposed to say to that? It's asinine. That's not a serious rejoinder.
If you have a bunch of examples to demonstrate that this has in fact been a consistent reality in universities throughout the past half century, fine, post them. Otherwise his point stands - this phenomenon wasn't an issue in 2008, or 1998.
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