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PRINCETON — In August, Springer Nature, the publisher of 3,000 academic journals, including the Nature portfolio of the world’s most influential science journals, announced new ethics guidance for its editors, addressing the balance between academic freedom and the risk that publication of some research will harm specific groups of humans. The guidance also mentions, though
When to use the N-word, should we be more accepting to paedophiles and put criminals in comes are just some of the wild ideas that have published in the aptly titled Journal of Controversial Ideas.
A Belgium academic admitted that he was a paedophile and argued that the LGBTQ+ community should accept peadophiles as a "sexual minority".
A Belgian researcher argues society should be more accepting to paedophiles in a shocking account of how he is attracted to children in a journal published by UK and US academics.
Cancel culture implies discarding people at the first sign of something we dislike. However, we shouldn't underestimate how quickly someone can change their ideas.