So far the fight/not fight decisions can be predicted in advanced based on whether an institution has a medical center with NIH grants.
And NSF grants?
A university president makes a case against cowardice
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#35Wild that he is some kind of exception. Rolling over, folding is not the university culture I remember.
There wasn't, historically, the level of enormous potential negative consequences legally and practically if the universities talked back. Universities, like many institutions, have also become more like large incumbent businesses than previously - e.g. perpetuating their own existence over having strong core values.
This is really well articulated. It's like how a company uses fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to justify a pivot away from some kind of principled stance.
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Are you referring to the most studied medicine in human history or the one that saved more lives than any other medicine in human history?
I'm referring to the medicine deployed against a pandemic whose death count is still entirely unknown.
How many people died because of COVID?
You don't know. No one knows.
Meanwhile, everyone who knows better pretends that the most fundamental data about the subject, on top of which all other data and decsions were built ... is garbage.
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Then they would need to tax nonprofit religious organizations too.
Why don't they just make the special interests pay their own multi-trillion dollar war bills instead of sabotaging US universities with surprise taxes?
If you increase expenses and cut revenue, what should you expect for your companies?
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Are you referring to the most studied medicine in human history or the one that saved more lives than any other medicine in human history?
Maybe he is, but forcing teens to take the vaccination was still rather illiberal.
We knew perfectly well back then that bad cases of Covid were rare in teenagers.
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#40Some of that so-called activism seems to be closer to suppressing any thoughts someone dislikes. Removing that from university life is not cool, that „activism“ itself went off the rails too.
We all know that isn't the kind of activism being targeted.