Cancel culture discussion thread II

by Judith Curry

Some additional articles and events to discuss.

This is a bit thin, but we needed a new thread and I am short of time.

Cliff Mass fired by NPR from his local radio show [link]

The cancel culture checklist [link]

Peer review, politics and pluralism [link]

The mob comes calling for a music theorist [link]

Why I don’t publish in peer reviewed journals [link]

China Scholar Xu to Sue to clear neame in soliciting prostitute charge [link]

Prof Xu’s real “crime” was penning essays denouncing removal of the two-term limit for China’s leader and accusing Xi of trying to bring the Cultural Revolution back to China. Also, he called for freedom of speech. https://bit.ly/2P5KPFx

Yes cancel culture exists – Colin Wright [link]

The climate left attacks Nobel laureate William Nordhaus [link]

Honoring the dishonorable [link]

Why university search committees need to emphasize ideological diversity  [link]

On Schellenberger being censored by Forbes [link]

Schellenberger gets cancelled during Congressional testimony [link]

Joshua Katz: I survived cancellation at Princeton [link]

In praise of negativity [link]

The Washington Post settles with teenager Nicholas Sandmann [link]

Discourse wars [link]

 

via Climate Etc.

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August 7, 2020 at 07:03PM

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