Today’s blacklisted American: A short list of just a few of the academics fired for having opinions

Trofim Lysenko, the person American academia now most admires,
preaching to Stalin as he destroyed Soviet plant research,
persecuted anyone who disagreed with him, and caused famines
that killed millions.
Today at the Daily Signal one of their writers, Douglas Blair, compiled a list of eight college professors whose lives were destroyed by the intolerant left and its effort to silence all opposition, by any means necessary. That list is as follows:
- Mike Adams: forced to retire early for being a conservative. He soon thereafter killed himself.
- Peter Boghossian: forced to resign for proving many social science journals publish utter garbage.
- Gregory Manco: fired for having an opinion.
- John Staddon: banned from academic email group for having an opinion.
- Bruce Gilley: forced to withdraw a peer-reviewed paper because others disliked his conclusions.
- Charles Negy: fired for expressing an opinion.
- Leslie Neal-Boylan: fired for expressing an opinion.
- Nathaniel Hiers: fired for cracking a joke.
Five of those eight individuals had previously been a subject of my daily column, “Today’s Blacklisted American,” proving that the number of such cases of oppression and blacklisting by the academic left has grown so large that a daily column can’t possibly cover every story.
What struck me about this list however was the petty, ugly, and absurd reasons given for destroying or silencing these individuals. » Read more
Trofim Lysenko, the person American academia now most admires,
preaching to Stalin as he destroyed Soviet plant research,
persecuted anyone who disagreed with him, and caused famines
that killed millions.
Today at the Daily Signal one of their writers, Douglas Blair, compiled a list of eight college professors whose lives were destroyed by the intolerant left and its effort to silence all opposition, by any means necessary. That list is as follows:
- Mike Adams: forced to retire early for being a conservative. He soon thereafter killed himself.
- Peter Boghossian: forced to resign for proving many social science journals publish utter garbage.
- Gregory Manco: fired for having an opinion.
- John Staddon: banned from academic email group for having an opinion.
- Bruce Gilley: forced to withdraw a peer-reviewed paper because others disliked his conclusions.
- Charles Negy: fired for expressing an opinion.
- Leslie Neal-Boylan: fired for expressing an opinion.
- Nathaniel Hiers: fired for cracking a joke.
Five of those eight individuals had previously been a subject of my daily column, “Today’s Blacklisted American,” proving that the number of such cases of oppression and blacklisting by the academic left has grown so large that a daily column can’t possibly cover every story.
What struck me about this list however was the petty, ugly, and absurd reasons given for destroying or silencing these individuals. » Read more