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That you for your post.

Repeating lies only strengthens the lie.

Only if you give the lie credence and authority.

FR allows for commentary, feedback, pros and cons, and all that good stuff. The act of posting articles on FR is coupled with challenge, research, ridicule, and an assortment of other refinement mechanisms whereby any lie, is laid bare.

Furthermore, unless you're perfect/God, there is a great opportunity for learning in this back-and-forth. FReepers are some of the smartest people around. I almost always learn something here...either a fact, a refutation I wouldn't have consdiered on my own, or an excellent way of seeing something anew.

Besides, in any battle, knowing what the enemy thinks is an important ingredient in success. Echo chambers are so boring. And, for what it's worth, out of the box I challenged the article.

There was a recent post on social sciences, that featured this brilliant give and take involving a Harvard faculty member critical of Charles Murray from the original article, that is worth reprinting. While the thrust of the back and forth is with regard to the "certainty of SCIENCE," it is also about the importance of assiduous disputation, which invariably arises from information dissemination and awareness enhancement:

"so why should we let someone teach social science that we know to be wrong in our social science courses?"

Because it is possible that you are wrong.
Science is not mathematics. Newtonian physics was wrong. And social science is a further three rungs down in certainty from science.

Your level of certainty and arrogance about what can be said, and probably thought, smacks of religion, and not science. This is a political religion that permeates academia at the moment. And which I am fairly sure you will swear does not infect you, while the rest of us can see the symptoms quite plainly.

Only religions ban heretics from speaking because of the wrong-think they might cause. Real science loves a good heretic. In fact, honestly, the entire goal of science is to be a heretic. To have an idea that no other person ever had. Science is the pretty much the antithesis of your thought-police approach.

And most of academia used to be the antithesis of your thought police approach as well, until the religion of leftism took it over, with the direct help of people like you.