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Name: Martin Wright on May 14, 2010Comments: This is an appalling attitude by Michael Murphy; anti-science and anti-education.Flag
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Name: Dr Erwin J.O. Kompanje on May 14, 2010Comments: Shame!Flag
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Name: Ken Evans on May 14, 2010Comments: This is an outrage! In other occassionally similar events, senior University staff frequently hand these sorts of matters over to the Human Resources departments, which sadly are insensitive to the intellectual life of universities. I have been wondering if poor Professor Murphy might have made a mistake of this sort. If that is true, then both the Professor and the person responsible for dealing with this silly mistake, should resign as soon as they have personally apologised to Dr Evans. Otherwise I can see the university of Cork becoming a laughing matter.Flag
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Name: Stew Plaistow on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ed Sexton on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dra. Marta Inés Arabia on May 14, 2010Comments: Estimados colegas de la UCC La intención de punir a un colega, por el único hecho de discordar del punto de vista de otro colega, haciendo un comentario con un tercer colega es prohibir definitivamente que el Dr. Dylan Evans se exprese dentro del medio académico. Tal punición parece ser un asedio al Dr. Dylan Evans pues, francamente, llega a tocar la idea de ridículo, punir por expresar. Definitivamente eso es impedir la libertad de expresión! No se puede confundir crítica constructiva con asedio. Dra. Marta Inés Arabia por la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina.Flag
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Name: Dr Steve Rossiter (Queen Mary University Of London) on May 14, 2010Comments: If this is true as presented, then it's scandalous conduct by UCC's HR department. I also showed this paper - a good piece of science that was viewed over 99,000 times on the PLoS's website - to my own colleagues. Nobody disciplined me.Flag
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Name: Steven Pinker on May 14, 2010Comments: This action is absurd and shameful. It runs contrary to the principle of intellectual freedom and freedom of speech, to say nothing of common sense. Steven Pinker Harvard College Professor Johnstone Family Professor Harvard UniversityFlag
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Name: Benjamin Jakobus on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jonathan Trout on May 14, 2010Comments: This certainly seems a rather an overreaction. I hope the college reconsiders this decision in due course.Flag
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Name: Ed Sketch on May 14, 2010Comments: As a retired HR Director at a Fortune Five company, I am not only greatly disturbed by the academic freedom issue, but also by the apparent failure of due HR process. External investigators, legally charged with establishing what happened, have, it appears, ruled that Dylan Evans is innocent of the charge of harassment. Looking at the situation as reported and the article, it looks like they were judging quite fairly. The overruling by higher authority of a finding of innocence by formal investigation seems like double jeopardy: morally and legally dubious to me. What does this say about President Michael Murphy's attitude towards the external investigators, whom I would hope would be supporting Dylan Evans on this issue, as their considered judgement is being overruled.Flag
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Name: Nicola Lewis on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Genevieve Shanahan on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jan Bjerknes on May 14, 2010Comments: Dylan, you have my full support on this. Good luck.Flag
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Name: Prof P A Racey on May 14, 2010Comments: There was widespread interest in the article in question and the fact that University College,Cork has reacted the way it has suggests that it doesn't appreciate the meaning of academic freedom.Flag
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Name: Daniel C. Dennett on May 14, 2010Comments: I am acquainted with the facts only as related in this petition, but I find it hard to imagine any extenuating circumstances that could render any other judgment than that this is an outrageous violation of academic freedomFlag
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Name: Steven J. C.Gaulin on May 14, 2010Comments: The sanctions placed on Dr. Evans are inappropriate. He was merely engaging in the kind of debate that is expected in the academy.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2010Comments: This act by Michael Murphy against Dr Evans is one of the most ridiculous and demoralizing moves in Academia that I've ever encountered.Flag
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Name: Daniel C. Dennett on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Peter Cambridge on May 14, 2010Comments: In SolidarityFlag
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Name: J. Michael Bailey on May 14, 2010Comments: Universities in the free world must err on the side of allowing speech and behavior that others find obnoxious. This is not even a close case. Let us all publicize it widely.Flag
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Name: Dr Lisa DeBruine on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Christine Brooks on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Professor Richard Green on May 14, 2010Comments: This is absurd! If it weren't so serious, it would be batty. What is wrong with UCC ?Flag
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Name: John Orbell on May 14, 2010Comments: Sexual behavior is, obviously (surely???) an important topic for scientific investigation, and that includes behaviors that university presidents might not find congenial or believe that others might not find congenial. There is, for example, an extensive literature on animal 'homosexuality' and on bonobo sexuality--which includes far more exotic forms of behavior than simply the one involved here. It is intolerable that this kind of censorship should be practiced by a university in any country--except, perhaps, Saudi Arabia where it might, possibly, be expected.Flag
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Name: Maria Wells on May 14, 2010Comments: Sounds like a very strange case indeed.Flag
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Name: Dr. Griet Vandermassen, Ghent University on May 14, 2010Comments: An utter disgrace.Flag
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Name: William Fabricius on May 14, 2010Comments: I have read the information contained in the petition and the article in question. I have no other knowledge about the case, but it is difficult to imagine how the University of Cork's response could be justified. This appears to violate principles of academic freedom William V. Fabricius, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Box 871104 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1104Flag
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Name: Jeremy Taylor on May 14, 2010Comments: It beggars belief that a respectable academic should be censured in this way for bringing to the attention of his colleagues a perfectably respectable scientific paper on evolutionary ecology and sexual behaviour of a fellow mammalian species, no doubt within the context of an ongoing and interesting debate about human uniqueness versus behaviours we share with other species in the animal kingdom.Flag
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Name: Diana Santos Fleischman on May 14, 2010Comments: No one should be sanctioned for disseminating scientific information to colleagues. Discussing sex research is not sexual harassment.Flag
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Name: Dr. Gad Saad on May 14, 2010Comments: Based on the details that I have seen of this case, this strikes me as yet another example of how political correctness can be an affront to common sense. I recently wrote a post on my Psychology Today blog on this exact topic.Flag
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Name: Heather Hoffmann on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Professor John Archer on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Matthew Stief on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dany Adams on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Christelle Marco on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Nigel Cadogan on May 14, 2010Comments: where has the academic tradition of open and robust debate gone ?Flag
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Name: Simon Graham on May 14, 2010Comments: Disgracefull.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stanley Dubinsky, Professor Of Linguistics, U Of SC (USA) on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lin Myers on May 14, 2010Comments: Discussing academic articles cannot constitute harassment. While some may not agree with finding, interpretations, etc., isn't the academy about such debates? To deny a professor a safe place to discuss academic work seems antithetical to the purpose of universities. As a sex researcher, I urge the university administration to reconsider their HR decision. Lin Myers, PhDFlag
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Name: Dr. James Cantor on May 14, 2010Comments: As Thomas Paine said, "He who dares not offend cannot be honest."Flag
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Name: Koen Tanghe on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Aras Petrulis on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David F. Bjorklund on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Prof. Innes Cuthill on May 14, 2010Comments: This was a paper about animal behaviour. That someone was offended by it is surprising enough; that an academic should be disciplined for discussing such an article is preposterous.Flag
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Name: Gert Buelens on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jo Semlyen on May 14, 2010Comments: The bigger picture is where will this kind of censorship and lack of understanding end?Flag
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Name: David P. Schmitt on May 14, 2010Comments:Flag