M.I.T.'s Choice of Lecturer Ignited Criticism. So Did Its Decision to Cancel.
Dorian Abbot is a scientist who has opposed aspects of affirmative action. He is now at the center of an argument over free speech and acceptable discourse.
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Dorian Abbot is a scientist who has opposed aspects of affirmative action. He is now at the center of an argument over free speech and acceptable discourse.
David Romps, the director of Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, resigned on Monday after his university refused to allow Dorian Abbot from the University of Chicago to deliver a speech.
A leading physicist at University of California, Berkeley, resigned in protest after his colleagues rejected his bid to invite a speaker to campus.
Cancel culture seemed to have backfired in once instance, as thousands have registered to attend a guest lecture at Princeton University by a geophysics professor whose initial speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was canceled amid pressure from campus activists.
The tyranny of popular opinion can hold in thrall a whole population, after all, for a while. I think psychiatry is vulnerable to that