And, of course, for the maths department you need to hire the resident loon on sci.math who claims to have a simple proof of Fermat's last theorem (insert obligatory joke here about the margins of this post being too small to contain the proof).
There's a reason why the patent department returns claims about perpetual motion machines, unopened, and it's not to suppress freedom of speech - it's to avoid wasting everybody's time. On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:41:28AM -0400, graywolf wrote: > Then you would not object to paying me to teach a course about Perpetual > Motion Engineering at the University of Toronto? Or how about a couse > about how Jackie had Marilyn murdered because John was going to devorce > her and marry Marilyn (which is no where near as far fetched as the 9/11 > conspiracy stuff)? > > -- > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > frank theriault wrote: > > On 7/25/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I will defend the guys right to get up on a soap box, or write on the > >> Internet, but I do not think he should be given official sanction or tax > >> payer dollars to do so. Are we required to support every crackpot who > >> wishes to tell us about his hallucinations? > > > > It rankles me that people use the "not with my tax dollars" argument > > to try to muzzle academics whose views don't coincide with theirs. > > > > I didn't realize that part of the deal with public funds going to > > universities was to allow the public to set curriculum, or otherwise > > tell profs what to say (or not to say). > > > > In fact, I thought that tax dollars going to post-secondary > > institutions was all about recognizing that the particular values and > > freedoms of academia were worth preserving and promoting, not so that > > the government or the people could use that funding as a platform to > > promote personal or popular agendas or censor unpopular thoughts. > > > > I guess I'm naive. > > > > cheers, > > frank > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
