Here's the point since you haven't got it: Someone prepared to teach students something which flies in the face of indisputable evidence has to be absolutely crazy, or the story itself is bullshit. Take your pick. There are plenty of explanations you can try. I can think of at least two other ways it could have been distorted or mis-reported. Academic freedom is a red herring. Of course he'd be free to talk rubbish to his students, but it wouldn't do them, or him, much good. It could very quickly ruin his career. I lectured for close to twenty years at two different universities -- before I moved into full time research and my teaching load dropped to a few lectures a year. I know a little about the academic world.
Don Bob Shell wrote: > On Jul 25, 2006, at 3:49 AM, Don Williams wrote: > > >> Someone posted a bit about the 'moon landing was filmed in Death >> Valley >> lunatics' the other day. Try this one for /real /bullshit: >> >> http://email.latimes.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/e5td0LgybQ0G2B0HjO40EF >> > > > Which part do you consider bullshit? What the man proposes to teach, > or the university defending his right to teach it? Personally, I > think freedom of speech must encompass ideas that the mainstream > considers repugnant. > > Bob > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
