Those are good yet tough questions, Jodi: How do everyday folks support academic freedom? And how do we support research that serves public interests?
Recently Anna told me about the Whistle Stop Cafe podcast with Chris and Kerry. Chris Scott, the Alberta cafe owner, is known for taking a stand against COVID measures and mandates, for which he was heavily fined and eventually jailed. This week the podcast featured Dr. Byram Bridle from the University of Guelph, speaking about his experience as a virologist, immunologist, and vaccinologist.
Dr. Bridle has been censored by the mainstream media and hounded with ad hominem attacks because of his critical comments on mRNA vaccines as far back as the spring of 2021. He’s called for and been willing to participate in open public debates with public health officials, but so far no one has taken him up. He’s also been banished from teaching at the university where he used to run a research lab and now teaches from the basement of his home.
When Dr. Bridle speaks, he is at pains to help the public understand the science of virology and vaccinology; he clearly understands that his role as a university researcher is to serve the public. And now the public in pursuit of the truth is serving him: here we have a couple of guys with a podcast giving him a platform to disseminate his knowledge and answer questions from the public. Would this have happened before the COVID era? I don’t know, but you gotta love this example of how ordinary folk take up the challenge and create spaces to ensure academic folk also committed to pursuing the truth are still heard.
"And now the public in pursuit of the truth is serving him." That's an excellent point, Margaret, and I had never thought about it that way. That's a very organic means to support such profs, and they also do have knowledge that we are newly hungry for.
I recall Douglas Farrow mentioning Dr. Bridle in his post too.
An analogy too, though not of a tenured professor, would be a certain homeopathy course now in process ;) Everyone at the course is so grateful to gain that knowledge and I imagine too that the doctor is grateful so many (who came after all from these organizations that were newly created beyond the profession, also due to COVID) are interested in learning from him.
Although Dr. Bridle wasn’t fired like Professor Provost, he has been positioned to teach in obscurity – no on-campus presence, no in-person teaching, no lab and therefore no research, no funding, and no grad students to supervise and support in the pursuit of the truth in the public interest. Effective way to censor a remarkable researcher. Except that he’s now connected to a larger community who is, as you say, hungry for knowledge.
When I think of the NCI and this podcast, they’re both kind of a Citizen Citizen Partnership, large scale and small, in contrast to the globalists’ Public Private Partnerships, which as we know are anything but a partnership in the interests of the public.
Those are good yet tough questions, Jodi: How do everyday folks support academic freedom? And how do we support research that serves public interests?
Recently Anna told me about the Whistle Stop Cafe podcast with Chris and Kerry. Chris Scott, the Alberta cafe owner, is known for taking a stand against COVID measures and mandates, for which he was heavily fined and eventually jailed. This week the podcast featured Dr. Byram Bridle from the University of Guelph, speaking about his experience as a virologist, immunologist, and vaccinologist.
Dr. Bridle has been censored by the mainstream media and hounded with ad hominem attacks because of his critical comments on mRNA vaccines as far back as the spring of 2021. He’s called for and been willing to participate in open public debates with public health officials, but so far no one has taken him up. He’s also been banished from teaching at the university where he used to run a research lab and now teaches from the basement of his home.
When Dr. Bridle speaks, he is at pains to help the public understand the science of virology and vaccinology; he clearly understands that his role as a university researcher is to serve the public. And now the public in pursuit of the truth is serving him: here we have a couple of guys with a podcast giving him a platform to disseminate his knowledge and answer questions from the public. Would this have happened before the COVID era? I don’t know, but you gotta love this example of how ordinary folk take up the challenge and create spaces to ensure academic folk also committed to pursuing the truth are still heard.
"And now the public in pursuit of the truth is serving him." That's an excellent point, Margaret, and I had never thought about it that way. That's a very organic means to support such profs, and they also do have knowledge that we are newly hungry for.
I recall Douglas Farrow mentioning Dr. Bridle in his post too.
An analogy too, though not of a tenured professor, would be a certain homeopathy course now in process ;) Everyone at the course is so grateful to gain that knowledge and I imagine too that the doctor is grateful so many (who came after all from these organizations that were newly created beyond the profession, also due to COVID) are interested in learning from him.
Although Dr. Bridle wasn’t fired like Professor Provost, he has been positioned to teach in obscurity – no on-campus presence, no in-person teaching, no lab and therefore no research, no funding, and no grad students to supervise and support in the pursuit of the truth in the public interest. Effective way to censor a remarkable researcher. Except that he’s now connected to a larger community who is, as you say, hungry for knowledge.
When I think of the NCI and this podcast, they’re both kind of a Citizen Citizen Partnership, large scale and small, in contrast to the globalists’ Public Private Partnerships, which as we know are anything but a partnership in the interests of the public.