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Shame on MIT for Bowing to a Twitter Mob

Defending Intellectual Integrity Against Cancel Culture

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Angelica Walker-Werth
Nov 12, 2021
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology canceled geophysicist Dorian Abbot’s lecture about climate and the likelihood of life on other planets after people on Twitter criticized his advocacy of merit-based college admissions.1 The school confessed that its decision was intended “to avoid controversy.” As Abbot explains (using the third person), “A small gr…

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