Those who have been following this blog know that last month I was told to remove the name of my university from this blog and then a few days ago my university backtracked and said I could use the name (not the letterhead, which I never disputed).
Well it has been an interesting week. After word go out that I had been banned by my university from listing their name on my blog, which was covered almost immediately by Inside Higher Education, there were quite a few comments on the internet. There were a number of comments about a double standard where others had used letterhead from the university to promote medications on behalf of drug companies,
Last week’s decision by my university to instruct me to remove the name of my university from this blog (which was done a formal letter hand delivered by a courier) was actually the last in a string of events that to the uncritical eye might be seen as connected.
Last week I posted some musings on among other topics academic freedom and I got quite a response to this topic. The question arises how much am I allowed to talk about and what can my university do to control what I write (last week my university announced that they don’t want me to [...]
After yesterday’s post on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) process “Retaliations and Beware of the Consequences” blew through the roof for record page views and stimulated similar confessions from other psychiatric bloggers about bullying by members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), as well other commentary here and here and [...]
I have had someone writing to complain about my blog stating that Philip Dawdy needed to smoke for his mental condition and that he shouldn’t be kicked out of his appartment for smoking. I mean he is smoking in the privacy of his own home. Why should those Seattle Eco fascists be able to [...]
