Fresh from the looney bin:http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Lynch+calls+teacher’s+theories+crazy+as+UNH+stands+behind+9%2F11+prof&articleId=57e4f5af-1d2a-4ecf-a57a-119902a00513
This guy is crazy! He is a tenured professor of psychology, and he is telling his students that the US Government planned the whole thing. My question:does academic freedom include the freedom to be stupid? Do the taxpayers of NH need to pay this idiot’s salary? Or is this guy another Ward Churchill? :smack:
Yeah, Ward Churchill! That works! Too bad you can’t tie him to Cindy Sheehan.
“Live Free or Die”
There isn’t a lot of flexibility in that motto, and some folks crack under the pressure.
Reliable sources say that Churchill and Sheehan met in Prague 4 years ago. And both of them have long hair, too!
BTW, this guy is UNH, not Colorado. Different dude.
There are also some who say that the conquest of Iraq has something to do with the war against terror. Crazy world ain’t it?
Good enough for Jesus, good enough for me.
Where were you when I was trying to convince my parents of that back in 1969!
Wow, UNH appears to be defending his right of free speech! And the State Board of Trustees is backing them, even in the face of pressure from the Governor! That’s an admirably principled stance, although my cynical little notochord suspects that if the heat gets too bad for the university, Professor Goofy will find himself busted for the crime of stealing stapler refills or something, tenure or no.
Banging yer girlfriend. Hey, sharing, brother!
Aaah! The insanity defense.
Community Standards, dontcha know? :dubious:
Yes.
That depends. How stuck are you on the whole “academic freedom” thing?
Not so “stuck” that I wish to pay academics to teach me and my children nonsense. I also don’t want to pay anybody to teach my daugher intelligent design either.
Maddox, of all people, got it exactly right. Where do these people come from?
It’s funny you should mention intelligent design, since intelligence design advocates are generally those who are most certain they know what is “nonsense” and what isn’t. They’re also usually the ones most eager to enforce their view of what is and isn’t “nonsense”. Unfettered academic inquiry, on the other hand, gave us evolution.
Now, you have a choice. You can continue to support unfettered academic inquiry, and trust that the sunlight of publicity will scrub out the obvious kooks and morons as they crop up. (C’mon, if you can trust in free markets surely you can trust in this.) Or you can decide to manage academic inquiry, and hope that (a) this will somehow prevent people from saying things to your children that you don’t ever want to hear, and (b) that attempts to manage academic inquiry won’t be co-opted by other people whose views are more restrictive than yours…say, those intelligent design advocates.
If the government planned nine-eleven, how come they didn’t plan it so that they could frame “the Liberals” and have the Democratic Party outlawed?
They didn’t plan it, they merely fell upon like starving jackals. By the time 9/11 came around, the American people were already into buyer’s remorse. The opportunity presented for a mediocrity to posture as a Leader … priceless!
What happened in the 7 1/2 months prior to 9/11 that caused this “buyer’s remorse”?
For starters, I think we expected that The Man Who Fell Up, having* lost *the popular vote, might be instilled with a bit of humility. Would have been a good start. Do you remember that speech, where he talks about “well, I know I didn’t really win any sort of mandate, or anything…”
Neither do I.
Academic freedom is one thing - being a blithering idiot on the taxpayer’s dollar is another. If I lived in New Hampshire, I would make a concerted effort to get this jerk fired. You want academic freedom? Go to a private university. So long as the taxpayers are funding your position, you are answerable to them. Fire his ass and move on.