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Scientists everywhere should be outraged at this attempt by the University of Florida to suppress science in a crucial public policy debate.

Experts said that such work can raise conflict-of-interest concerns but that the University of Florida’s response to three scholars seemed to be a stretch.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and other members of Florida's Democratic congressional delegation on Tuesday sent a letter to the University of Florida'

The university has declared itself an arm of Ron DeSantis’s government.

The University of Florida has barred three professors from testifying as plaintiffs against a law championed by Ron DeSantis that restricts mail-in voting.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges said it would look into whether the flagship had violated policies when it denied the faculty members’ requests to be expert witnesses.

The university called the faculty members’ proposed work “adverse to the university’s interests.” A national faculty leader called the prohibition an “attempt to muzzle” the professors.

After being hired as expert witnesses for groups opposing a restrictive voting law, three University of Florida academics were told they could not participate in the lawsuit against the state.

The University of Florida campus. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The University of Florida has barred three professors from

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