Comments on: Scientists horrified that Trump wants to require universities to honor free speech

By: cf

cf — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:43:52 +0000

Thank you Thank You !
Finally someone to put the whiner milinials in their place being in college does not necessarily mean you are mature or open minded someone has to teach you your opinions arent the only ones that count

By: OldConservativeGuy

OldConservativeGuy — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:20:52 +0000

Open-mindedness, right? Open on only one side. I haven’t paid taxes for almost 60 years and didn’t serve in the US Army so that we could hear only one side of the story. It has gotten so one sided that I have stopped making ANY contributions to my alma mater and now delete their emails without reading. No matter me complained when the previous President issued direction that essentially denied the right to representation and the presumption of innocence (both guaranteed by our Constitution) to students accused of any sexual harassment complaint but now they are incensed when they are required to allow students to exercise their First Amendment right to free speech. These people should relocate to any one of the many countries that operate without these protections!

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 01:21:22 +0000

You can have freedom of speech. Just don’t dare say that Climate Change (or whatever they are calling global warming this week) is NOT settled science. Don’t say that a born baby laying on the delivery room table and breathing on it’s own is a human worthy of having it’s life protected. And DO NOT say that “All Lives Matter”!

By: V Uil

V Uil — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:18:47 +0000

This is Nature a once prestigious journal that in the past published extraordinary scientific breakthroughs now laid low by PC and the cult of SJWs. Truly one despairs. Perhaps as I sometimes think the whole edifice of the West is starting to tumble down like a pack of cards.

Nature morphing into the Little Red Book of political speak.

By: Freeland_Dave

Freeland_Dave — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:03:24 +0000

Why of course most scientists are against it. Ask yourself, where do most scientists work and where do they get their money? It’s called government grant research money. It’s how they can say “The science is settled and all scientists agree” even tough in fact the statement is a lie.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:56:37 +0000

In reply to schmoozle. schmoozle: The entire article is a quote from scientists. As one of the two most important scientific journals, Nature represents the scientific community, and what it thinks is important. You can try to rationalize this problem away, but that won't change it. The scientific community has become increasingly partisan, dedicated to Democratic Party politics. This article illustrates this.

By: schmoozle

schmoozle — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:34:41 +0000

Sorry Mr Zimmerman but there is no quote from any scientist in the Nature article. I suggest you read it before luxuriating such indignation.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:32:39 +0000

In reply to Brett. Brett: The journal is still one of the premier science journals in the world. For it to publish such crap is significant, as it shows us that the science community worldwide is seriously corrupted. They are allowing their partisan politics to influence their publication. This must not be dismissed.

By: Mongo

Mongo — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:45:38 +0000

Well, who would know better than universities how easy it is to influence young people’s minds?
They know that an hour or two of listening to a conservative speaker’s common sense can undo years of liberal propaganda.
The university commies are right to be afraid of the truth, it will wipe out years of their efforts at Marxist brainwashing out youth.

What is the opposite of diversity?
University!

By: George Warner

George Warner — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:14:40 +0000

True scientists do no oppose free speech.

By: David Longfellow

David Longfellow — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:05:13 +0000

Don’t you just hate it when the constitution is required to be followed?

By: Anne Gomes

Anne Gomes — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:50:28 +0000

No “scientists” were mentioned by name in the article. Only a political philosopher. Weird.

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:06:07 +0000

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
“Port Huron Statement”
(June 15, 1962)
https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111huron.html

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:56:20 +0000

Nature is a British magazine. They can sod off.

By: Max Brando

Max Brando — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:27:44 +0000

Maybe free speech is rocket science, after all.

By: Lords body

Lords body — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 05:34:36 +0000

Small community colleges have instructors which push atheistic relativity and defiance of definitions.

By: stpaulchuck

stpaulchuck — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:39:29 +0000

quelle horreur!!

They are terrified that now the students can raise challenges to their quack “science” teachings with papers by better scientists in the field. At this time you either Kow Tow to the prof and his or her views or you flunk or get kicked out of the class. It is not all of them of course but the most egregious ones are at the big name universities which are _supposed_ to be providing world class education not indoctrination.

Of course the Liberal Arts colleges are the worst, but they probably get a small percentage of the research money compared to physics, chemistry, engineering, etc.

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 03:58:14 +0000

This wouldn’t be necessary if Mario Savio was still alive. /sarc

What horrifies the campus researchers is the threat to their grant money. What horrifies them even more is that, in order to save their grant money, they will have to oppose the neo-Red Guards who now effectively run much of academe. This should be interesting.

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 01:47:19 +0000

Of course the crowning irony is that “The New Left” began in 1964 at Berkley with “The Free Speech Movement”.

By: m.

m. — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:40:45 +0000

conservative speech allowed…the horror

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:44:52 +0000

The truly frustrating thing is that you only have to walk about 10 feet on a public university campus in America to encounter a student who has had to endure a professor who grandstands and berates one particular point of view. The stories are ubiquitous and faculty are often aware of who abuses their privileges. BUT as soon as someone outside their intellectual inbreeding calls them out, THEY are the problem.

It’s just like the poet who says that only poets can write poetry and critique their own. Well who decides whose a poet? The poets of course…

The self-interest and parochialism of universities is a big part of the problem with American higher education.