>>> Posting number 1615, dated 21 Jan 1997 09:12:41
Date:         Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:12:41 -0900
Reply-To:     Discussion of Fraud in Science <SCIFRAUD@CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU>
Sender:       Discussion of Fraud in Science <SCIFRAUD@CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU>
From:         "Douglas C. Hintz" <dchintz@REDACTED.UOREGON.EDU>
Subject:      Firing at Northwestern
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Scifraud:  Here is an excerpt from a posting to another list that I thought
might be of interest to this list, since it refers to a course on scientific
ethics and issues of academic freedom:
 
<<<I am writing to you concerning the case of Prof. Sheldon Epstein from
Northwestern University, who was just fired for putting material *against*
the Holocaust in his ethics and engineering course at the university.
 
Northwestern is home to the notorious Holocaust-Revisionist Arthur Butz,
another member of the Engineering Department. Protests against Butz at NWU
have been ineffective. The NWU administration supported his "academic
freedom" to place Holocaust-Revisionist material on the university's
computer as long as it was not done in his Engineering classes.
 
So Prof. Epstein located a course outline for Engineering where ethical
issues in modern science were to be taught. He developed a curriculum that
examined scientific ethics and how the scientific community was involved in
events during WW II.
 
For this, I understand, he was fired by the same university that tolerated
and defended Butz's Holocaust-Revisionism.
 
The full story is available at the WWW site: http://www.k9ape.com/c96/ in
the five files candor00.html through candor04.html.>>>
 
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