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Just signed the petition: Stop Universities Undermining our Basic Freedoms<\/a> my comment reads:<\/p>\n

Universities are the first and last places we should expect to find radical information and people who THINK DIFFERENT. These ad hominem attacks retard the evolution of knowledge hindering novel scientific discoveries and findings - and would be normal in China or other totalitarian dictatorship, but in a democracy it is the lifeblood of the beast.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Universities are supposed to be institutions of research and learning where the status quo can be challenged and truth pursued.<\/p>\n

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