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More virtue signaling. It's a shame that it's coming from MIT.

• grzm 10y ago
  Calling out virtue signaling is itself virtue signaling. Do you have something meaningful to add? If we start to see stifling of legitimate, civil speech, then I think we have cause for concern. I'm encouraged that the statement specifically includes We uphold the principles of the scientific method, of fact- and reason-based objective inquiry. Science is not a special interest; it is not optional. Science is a foundational ingredient in how we as a society analyze, understand, and solve the most difficult challenges that we face. Looking (albeit briefly) online, I found one indication that free speech might be under threat at MIT: http://projects.wgbhnews.org/muzzle-awards-2015/mit/ http://projects.wgbhnews.org/muzzle-awards-2015/mit/ This describes a broadening of the MIT anti-hazing policy as including "mental discomfort", which, according to the author's commentary is part of "the gradual yet radical transformation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from one of the most robust academic centers of free speech and free thought in the world, to just another politically correct wannabe gulag." That said, the text doesn't include any actual incidence of complaints of these restrictions being applied. If there were, I'd think they'd be included. Of course, that doesn't mean there haven't been such occurrences. Such data would add weight to such allegations.