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It's coming to a head, finally. These academic dogmatists are being dragged out into the sunlight to be disinfected. As usual, Steven Pinker sums it up best:
by camdenlock 8y ago
It's coming to a head, finally. These academic dogmatists are being dragged out into the sunlight to be disinfected.
As usual, Steven Pinker sums it up best:
> "Criticism and open debate are the lifeblood of academia; they are what differentiate universities from organs of dogma and propaganda," Pinker wrote. "If scholars feel they have been subject to unfair criticism, they should explain why they think the critic is wrong. It should be beneath them to try to punish and silence him."
- vkou 8y agoThere's a lot of people who need to be dragged out into the sunlight to be disinfected. The people that I imagine belong in that category almost certainly don't intersect much with the people who you imagine belong in that category. This sword cuts both ways.