Kurina: Regarding the Tim Hunt stuff, quite a few articles can be found but this one seems to do a good job of covering the mess from beginning to end.
Click here Feminist biology class.
Click here Making syllabi less competitive and more female friendly (actual paper linked in article):
Click here Glaciers and feminism (paper also linked in article):
Click here In regards to some of Leo's examples, I certainly don't pretend to know which he meant but there are a few that spring to mind here. Not long ago a prominent sex researcher was fired for no longer holding the correct views on transgender children. Dr. Kenneth Zucker worked for a gender identity clinic in Toronto. He held the viewpoint that doctors should first see if a child can learn to feel comfortable in their own body before taking the more direct measure of transitioning. This upset a lot of people and they began a smear campaign against him, claiming he said quite a few horrible things to his patients that would later be debunked. Before they were though, he was fired after decades of work helping kids transition. According to the center that fired him, it was
not their responsibility to check the facts of the report against the doctor. He was essentially fired because a group became so outraged that this man, someone in the medical profession for decades, chose to provide psychological care before taking the steps to transition.
On a somewhat different note, late last year a Yale professor
the right to free speech and the ability for people to wear whatever Halloween costume they chose. She believed that if people were offended that they should discuss why and learn to talk to each other. This was met with hell from the Yale students, who even went so far as to [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IEFD_JVYd0]hassle the professor's husband who also worked on campus. While the professor in question was not directly fired but chose to resign, it was in large part due to the university waiting many weeks to defend her and allowing the onslaught against her and her husband to continue.
Anyway, those are just a few examples of where outrage culture and progressiveness is trying to destroy the lives of people who hold different opinions. There are some others as well but they are difficult to really discuss due to conflicting reports. One is a professor who wrote a blog post about a colleague that told a student some opinions simply were not acceptable. The student should not repeat them because they may offend somebody. The professor who spoke out against this incident quickly had his tenure removed, although the university is claiming it is because he mentioned the name of the offending professor than the statement itself. Personally, I imagine it is because he stood up to defend a student for expressing unpopular views as is his right, but who knows.
Thank you very much for the detailed response, I'm going to look at all of them :) I had a quick look at that article and found this glorious bit:
" As these examples show, the STEM syllabi explored in this study demonstrated a view of
knowledge that was to be acquired by the student, which promotes a view of knowledge as
unchanging. This is further reinforced by the use of adverbs to imply certainty such as
“actually” and “in fact” which are used in syllabi to identify information as factual and beyond
dispute (Biber, 2006a; 2006b). For example, “draw accurate conclusions from scientific data
presented in different formats” (Lower level math). Instead of promoting the idea that
knowledge is constructed by the student and dynamic, subject to change as it would in a more
feminist view of knowledge, the syllabi reinforce the larger male-dominant view of knowledge
as one that students acquire and use make the correct decision. "
Spoken like someone without a clue of what goes on in STEM. Still, the million dollar question is how widespread this "culture' is. A lone nutjob article doesn't say much on its own. Tons of worthless articles, including worthless STEM articles get published each year (in less than respectable journals at least).
I quickly read the email too. It's difficult to believe that such a level headed argument created controversy of any kind. I saw a clip of a furious girl yelling at the husband, and at least in that case it seems that there were several students involved. Still, as I've seen with our (far more violent) 2016 university protests over here, only a very small minority of students are needed to raise hell. So again the question is how widespread this debacle is? A small minority from a pool of 50000 students is enough to create a crowd that makes the problem appear worse than it is.
It's a pity that we don't really have Halloween events here. For now I have to get my Halloween fill from special game events, like in Terraria :P
