Letter to Mayo Clinic on Free Speech and Academic Freedom
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Garrick Villaume
9 days ago
It's never been more important to uphold the foundational principles on which Mayo was built and to object to their betrayal by those feeding on its legacy.
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MIchael sarr
2 years ago
From everything I have read about this Dr Joyner was asked a physiologic question and responded in a non-biased scientific way from the aspect of his insight into a purely nonpolitical question; after all, he is an expert on this topic. This is inappropriate from my standpoint and form numerous other scientists as well.
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Lisa Blackwell
2 years ago
Science is not bigotry.
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Lisa wilson
2 years ago
University Medical Center of Nevada
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Luc Quintin
2 years ago
Senior investigator (retired, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, section 24:Physiology) and Anesthesiologist (retired, reserve, Hopital d Instruction des Armées Desgenettes, Critical Care), Lyon, France.
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Laurence Klotz
3 years ago
Professor, Dept of Surgery, University of Toronto.
Member, Order of Canada
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Robert J Sokol MD
3 years ago
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Your university is not behaving as a center for intellectual discourse a key characteristic of institutions of higher learning for centuries. As a former senior academic administrator, i find your behavior discouraging at the minimum.
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Patrick Maurice Moriarty
3 years ago
Without supporting academic freedom and free expression Mayo is returning to the days of Pope Gregory IX and the ecclesiastical tribunal.
Give Dr. Joyner his freedom of speech!
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James Carper
3 years ago
And I thought Mayo was a first-rate academic institution.
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James S Skinner
3 years ago
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As a Past-President of the American College of Sports Medicine, a former Honor Award winner, and a scientist, I find the censoring of Dr. Joyner reprehensible and unworthy of such a distinguished institution.
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J Larry Durstine
3 years ago
Dr. Joyner is an outstanding physiologist and physician.
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Duncan Mitchell
3 years ago
Emeritus Professor of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand
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John C Lacy
3 years ago
Professor of Practice, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Shane K Maloney
3 years ago
Professor of Physiology, The University of Western Australia
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Michael R Elliott
3 years ago
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Firing or otherwise harming faculty for saying things that might conflict with the beliefs of senior administrators destroys science and academics.
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Douglas Ruden
3 years ago
Freedom of speech is critical in academia - especially if you do not agree with the opinions!
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Robert A Wild
3 years ago
University only survives because of free speech
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Tom Tomlinson
3 years ago
Professor emeritus, Michigan State, Bioethics
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Daniel J Green PhD
3 years ago
Winthrop Professor, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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Jyoti Raychaudhuri
3 years ago
Politics in the name of science and one group shoving down their idea for the concept of greater good is simply not acceptable and without free speech there is no science.
It's never been more important to uphold the foundational principles on which Mayo was built and to object to their betrayal by those feeding on its legacy.
From everything I have read about this Dr Joyner was asked a physiologic question and responded in a non-biased scientific way from the aspect of his insight into a purely nonpolitical question; after all, he is an expert on this topic. This is inappropriate from my standpoint and form numerous other scientists as well.
Science is not bigotry.
University Medical Center of Nevada
Senior investigator (retired, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, section 24:Physiology) and Anesthesiologist (retired, reserve, Hopital d Instruction des Armées Desgenettes, Critical Care), Lyon, France.
Professor, Dept of Surgery, University of Toronto. Member, Order of Canada
Your university is not behaving as a center for intellectual discourse a key characteristic of institutions of higher learning for centuries. As a former senior academic administrator, i find your behavior discouraging at the minimum.
Without supporting academic freedom and free expression Mayo is returning to the days of Pope Gregory IX and the ecclesiastical tribunal. Give Dr. Joyner his freedom of speech!
And I thought Mayo was a first-rate academic institution.
As a Past-President of the American College of Sports Medicine, a former Honor Award winner, and a scientist, I find the censoring of Dr. Joyner reprehensible and unworthy of such a distinguished institution.
Dr. Joyner is an outstanding physiologist and physician.
Emeritus Professor of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand
Professor of Practice, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Professor of Physiology, The University of Western Australia
Firing or otherwise harming faculty for saying things that might conflict with the beliefs of senior administrators destroys science and academics.
Freedom of speech is critical in academia - especially if you do not agree with the opinions!
University only survives because of free speech
Professor emeritus, Michigan State, Bioethics
Winthrop Professor, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Politics in the name of science and one group shoving down their idea for the concept of greater good is simply not acceptable and without free speech there is no science.