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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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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And, likewise, the inference that academic suppression is new, or somehow very very recent phenomena was asinine enough to warrant that exact response, that it has been happening for 400 years, and that academic studies have been suppressed on a variety of topics throughout history since that time.
If depending on the argument from ignorance fallacy is all you have, then sure, Cliff is right until someone proves him wrong, I guess. But that’s poor logic. If you’d like to use google, you’ll find a large range of evidence detailing academic suppression, from the tobacco industry, to climate change, to the events of hurricane Katrina. All large, very prominent issues over the past 20-30 years that have been subject to academic suppression.
Otherwise, I don’t know what else to say to someone who believes academic suppression is a new 2018 thing. It’s ridiculous