20 May - Academic Freedom Day! May 14. 2010 | Comments (12)
By coincidence, 20 May is Academic Freedom Day:http://afaf.web.officelive.com/AcademicFreedomDay.aspxLet's hope the President of UCC stands up and takes note!
By coincidence, 20 May is Academic Freedom Day:http://afaf.web.officelive.com/AcademicFreedomDay.aspxLet's hope the President of UCC stands up and takes note!
The article that caused offence was published in PLoS One a leading international peer-reviewed scientific journal. It was entitled "Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time". To read the full article, click on this link:http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007595The article was covered extensively in the international press. See, for example, this piece in The Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/10/oral-sex-bats-improbable-researchIn early November 2009, a lecturer at University College Cork showed this article to over a dozen colleagues. One of those colleagues later filed a formal complaint of harassment against the lecturer, even though in this particular case the article was shown in the company of third person, and was brought up only in the context of an ongoing academic discussion about the relevance of evolutionary theory to human psychology. The colleague displayed no signs of...
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