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on September 14, 2018

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Culture Wars: Professor Rick Mehta Fired in Free Speech Battle

The three things most troubling about Acadia University’s firing of psychology professor Rick Mehta are the secrecy surrounding Acadia’s decision, Acadia’s failure to address properly any valid complaint it might have received against Mehta’s teaching, and Acadia’s attack on freedom of expression on campus. Because the firing is a personnel matter, Scott Roberts, a university spokesman, declined to comment or “provide any elaboration” on Mehta’s dismissal. Keeping the reasons secret is troubling because unless they have good information on how the university interprets its rules and evaluates complaints, professors at Acadia will not know just where the boundaries are. Their ignorance and puzzlement will change their behaviour, making them more cautious and fearful in their teaching and talking. Good teaching, though, requires professors to be natural and unaffected, and able to take risks. An insincere or mannered professor will not earn the trust of their students, and stud...

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Blood Trafficking: US Diplomats Trafficking Blood and Pathogens

By Dilyana Gaytandzhieva - September 12, 2018 The US Embassy to Tbilisi transports frozen human blood and pathogens as diplomatic cargo for a secret US military program. Internal documents, implicating US diplomats in the transportation of and experimenting on pathogens under diplomatic cover were leaked to me by Georgian insiders. According to these documents, Pentagon scientists have been deployed to the Republic of Georgia and have been given diplomatic immunity to research deadly diseases and biting insects at the Lugar Center – the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. This military facility is just one of the many Pentagon biolaboratories in 25 countries across the world. They are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.1 billion military program – Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa. The Penta...

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