AAUP Assaults Science, National Security & Academic Freedom

Accuracy in Academia ^ | December 12, 2017 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Academiadotorg]

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has issued a report on "National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom" that might leave readers who have studied such matters scratching their heads. "The Trump administration's alarming hostility to science has exacerbated already troubling threats to academic freedom in the physical and natural sciences in two different areas," the AAUP states. "In the area of international scientific exchange, Chinese or Chinese American scientists have been targeted and charged with espionage."

"The second area, the field of climate science, has been subjected to vicious attempts to discredit its validity, which have intensified significantly since Donald Trump took office."

For openers, the inclusion of academic freedom, while consistent with the AAUP's traditional mission, is interesting since the group has been somewhat ambivalent about free speech on campus, most notably, for conservatives at Berkeley.

As to the charges of espionage they allude to, the particular case they cite may have yet to be decided but others have. "Today, Xu Jiaqiang, 31, formerly of Beijing, China, pleaded guilty to economic espionage and theft of a trade secret, in connection with Xu's theft of proprietary source code from Xu’s former employer, with the intent to benefit the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China. Xu pleaded guilty to all six counts with which he was charged," the U. S. Justice Department announced on May 19, 2017.

As to the reference to the validity of climate science, it should be noted that Michael Mann, who has gone to court repeatedly to block attempts to view his own controversial science, as we have reported over the years, is one of the signatories to the AAUP report. See "hockey stick" and "Hide the decline."

[Academiadotorg]

Global warming may be debatable but espionage can be very real.

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[Telepathic Intruder]

Also, the field of Geocentric science, has been subjected to vicious attempts to discredit its validity, which have intensified significantly since Galileo started using the telescope.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

AAOWLUP

The American Association Of Overeducated Whining Leftist University Professors

[Nifster]

Do these folks also support transgender use as real?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The left loves the idea of science. They just hate real science because they can’t control it.

[pfflier]

President Eisenhower presented his own warnings about out of control science years ago:

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

Funny how this was in the same speech as the comment on the "Military-Industrial Complex", but, no one ever quotes this.

[Academiadotorg]

we did

[ELS]

a scientific-technological elite.

Technocrats

[SunkenCiv]

A few hundred, or just dozens, of leftist loudmouths should be out of the teaching biz, pronto. That's what it signifies. Thanks Academiadotorg.