rukawa Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/ Paper rescinded and NSF acknowledgement removed. I don't recall there ever being censorship like this based on politics except for Lysenkoism in the USSR and Galileo during the Inquisition. I'm not sure this has ever happened in a modern democracy. We are living in very strange times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/ Paper rescinded and NSF acknowledgement removed. I don't recall there ever being censorship like this based on politics except for Lysenkoism in the USSR and Galileo during the Inquisition. I'm not sure this has ever happened in a modern democracy. We are living in very strange times. It doesn't matter what is true or false if the left doesn't like it. This is a great interview with Nadine Strossen who is dismayed at even the ACLU's abandonment of the freedom of speech. http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rukawa Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 I shouldn't have said activists. Make that very well-respected accomplished scientists get paper rescinded for political reasons. Its not really the Left. Its the establishment. In the past we had the brilliant accomplished people fighting against censorship. Now they are fighting for it. Amy Wilkinson is no slouch: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eUwz338AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 I shouldn't have said activists. Make that very well-respected accomplished scientists get paper rescinded for political reasons. Its not really the Left. Its the establishment. In the past we had the brilliant accomplished people fighting against censorship. Now they are fighting for it. Amy Wilkinson is no slouch: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eUwz338AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao The important part isn't scientist vs. activist, it is "for political reasons". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spekulatius Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 At a faculty meeting the week before, the Department Head had explained that sometimes values such as academic freedom and free speech come into conflict with other values to which Penn State was committed. Ouch! Truth isn’t truth if it’s inconvenient to some believes! Pretty sad for a university. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigarbutt Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Opinion: Free speech should take precedence over uncomfortable opinions and the author appears reasonable (but only his side has been submitted). Humble perspective: paper publication can be a relatively messy procedure and this kind of focused "political" interference, if true as described, IMO is more an exception rather than a rule or an "institutionalized" and "rotten to the core" process. Before concluding about this specific case and widespread generalization, it would have been helpful to hear opposing arguments. Maybe, the situation is not so clear cut. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949241 Like in investing, comparing different perspectives can help narrow the "true" value of an investment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc75 Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 FWIW the math in the paper is very basic and it's beyond weird that it was ever accepted for NYJM. Definitely something strange going on there. Also, some brief rebuttals from central characters in Hill's drama: https://math.uchicago.edu/~wilkinso/Statement.html https://www.math.uchicago.edu/~farb/statement I know little about this story. Hill strikes me as a guy who likes attention and thinks highly of himself (see his webpage http://people.math.gatech.edu/~hill/About2018.php). There are some huge egos in academics and I think a large part of this is a few such egos colliding, with political motivations on all sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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