Even at university, speech can never be entirely free

Judgement is hard, but limits are appropriate if they ensure the quality of academic engagement with complex, competing ideas, says Sandro Galea

Published on
November 29, 2018
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November 29, 2018
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Source: John Holcroft

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The Lindsay Shepherd case in Wilfred Laurier University in Canada was instructive on what goes on under the name of legitimate restrictions on free speech in modern western universities.
Today is comment in the Nature on the topic https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07518-3

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