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Re: Physicist fired for writing book



I wondered when Chomsky's contribution would appear -- that's because he has
said for some time that professionals (his example, NYT journalists) are
continually nudged into the appropriate class ethos, from birth, and couldn't
even "entertain" a contrary thought -- other media watchers have echoed this
also, e.g. McChesney, Bagdikian, and Soloman. That this is true for University
professionals should not be surprising considering that the universities are
the ideological "....weapons factories in the social class war." -- Richard
Lewontin (also MIT)

bc


Derek Chirnside wrote:

A few more leads on the Jeff Schmidt story.


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In addition, Noam Chomsky,
distinguished linguist and social critic at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, helped solicit more than 130 signatures on a protest letter.
Schmidt has created a web site at disciplined-minds.com containing letters
of support and other updated information about his book and his firing."


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have a nice day.
6.30am here, must go to my other work

-Derek

Derek Chirnside - DCandPC@netaccess.co.nz
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