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John Barry's avatar

I guess we all suspect this kind of plotting is going on behind the scenes all the time, but it's still astonishing to see the raw evidence, and how a research of the calibre of James Nuzzo can be stabbed in the back just because he has the audacity to say things that challenge the prevailing ideology. Without academic credibility what use is academia? Universities don't seem to realise that by cancelling people like James Nuzzo, they are cancelling themselves.

Tom Golden's avatar

Amen John. So true.

Carl Dari's avatar

I gave up academia long time ago.

It once was a great place, built by men, then destroyed by ideologues. RIP Unis.

Phillip Hickox's avatar

Dr Fiona Girkin has also been cancelled.

See Bettina Arndt's Substack

quote<Two days after the release of Fiona’s powerful and courageous interview, she discovered the knives were out. She was advised by the University of Tasmania that messages were circulating amongst domestic violence groups on social media to “come for her.” They wanted her sacked.

Next came a request from the university that she attend a meeting regarding the policing program. She fronted up to find herself facing university discipline and HR apparatchiks who informed her that she was being “removed” from her duties teaching the police course until an “assessment” was conducted to determine if she had breached the Behaviour Policy of the university.>unquote

https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/tasmanian-dv-truth-teller-under-attack

Rachael  Morgan's avatar

You 3 are amazing! Love your work and wish you could help us in this difficult situation… But we will battle hard for justice

Phillip Hickox's avatar

Sadly, this indicates how academic research is being suppressed unless it aligns itself with feminist dogma.

It has been clear for many decades that funding for research has been used to manipulate the direction that the research must take.

Eeva Sodhi <Contractors are further instructed to "make a careful choice about which indicators are going to be applied" because the indicators have to reflect the gendered approach they are developing. Under no circumstances is it permissible to conclude that Canadian women are not subjected to a systemic bias. Every undertaking must be premised on an understanding of the "historical and continuing reality of women's inequality" in Canadian society.>

ECU is Edith Cowan University.

Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

One quick thought to the last statement made in the interview. The cancellation process is NOT an unintended consequence of the policies of feminization. The cancellation process IS the goal. I attended a Town Hall at the 2018 American Geophysical Union Meeting in which the feminists at the height of the #MeToo scam were introducing the young women who were going to take out high profile male scientists in various subdisciplines of the geosciences as part of the remaking of the culture of science and academia to suit women by removing any men who did not bend the knee to their will. It was as blatant as listening to Hitler speaking to roaring crowds in Nuremberg in the late 1930's. The results are no different!

David Stanley Lavery's avatar

feminism is anti male hatred and bullying, feminists will try their best to stop equality because they don't want to be treated and regarded as badly as men are. Feminists can say and do what they like, men cant , that's feminist equality.

Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

Listening to James' story is like reliving the last decade of my life since I was cancelled for daring to speak truths the Femi Nazis of academia do not wish to hear. Sadly for James...do not make the mistake of thinking that the damage is done simply because Edith Cowan has pushed him out. These feminists will attack Nuzzo at every opportunity for the rest of his life. Do not count on your "friends" and "colleagues" to stand up for you. Most you will find will act as if they never met you if not outright pile on with the others to prove their virtue and save themselves. The idea that if they throw you under the bus for the bear to eat maybe they will be eaten last.

So...what is to be done about these universities. Frankly...the only way to fix them is to remove the feminization...and there is no way to do that without kicking out women...ALL THE WOMEN. While not all women are part of this anti-intellectual conduct, their refusal to stand up to their fellow women makes their presence untenable. It is time for gender segregation in the education system to protect men from toxic women. When that happens, you will see the male universities following the old canon of academic institutions will quickly outshine the failing women's universities in teaching and research....and the feminists will have demonstrated why society's evolved in the patriarchal fashion.

Tom Golden's avatar

Interesting idea to have male and female universities. I would love to see how that panned out. Makes me wonder what the feminists would do without having someone to blame?

Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

Have no fear...they would still find a way to blame men. Remember the headline with any problem in society from this example...."Pain from new form of testicular cancer 10 times as intense as prior forms. Women and girls hardest hit!"

Douglas McClenaghan's avatar

An absolute bonanza for trans activists!

Carl Dari's avatar

Well, this is the very reason why feminist will prevent that from happening and a Tom Golden will never see it.

Greg Allan's avatar

In any dispute among women all sides will point the finger at men.

Steven Work's avatar

I reviewed his situation, and it reminded me of the 'Google Memo' public 'hanging' to warn other sharp white men from expressing health masculine Provide and Protect virtues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber

The mobbing of him with vicious hate-filled life-crippling and possibly life-destroying intended sick response to his response to official request for feed-back in one of those white men testicle-kicking toxic abusing DEI or Affirmative action or whatever name they excuse their genocidal goals under, his response was an example of his excellence as engineer as well as providing actual real information that would help sufferers of those corporate-gov abuses and mind-raping with actually sane well-measured and understood facts.

These kind of mobbing from vicious fatherless mind-raped Satanic-Directed pre-programmed deep-fear and demonic-driven triggered 5th column golem soul-sold machines of pain, poverty, psychological & economical & social & family & employment & community destruction focused army and their shapers and supporters can be found in most every extended family, ..

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.. And these family-destroying [functional] fatherhoodless and Soul-murdering Witch-filled ‘Feminized’ 'professionals' are not limited to public supported Education and Research systems.

Although over generations has created greater numbers of professional Sick woman educators and many other professionals, and with hyper-aggressive Affirmative-Action institutionalize Federal, State, and Local Government and corporation forced ‘Quota System’ that targets the removal and unemployment of men, replaced most often with meritless Sick mind-raped and mind-raping Feminist women, turning nearly every employment and services environment abusive and toxic to men, decent women, and children.

And not limited to sex or what might be on any normal 'woke-topics' list, but reaches into hard-STEM areas as Stephen Meyers and supportive peer-reviewers and publication editors have discovered and suffered from. He uses hard clear well establish scientific methods and existing well supported theories such as those in Informational Complexity Theories to study the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design with very definite results that argue against any mostly 'random' Evolutionary Theory. His studies may be used to support a theological cause for life and creation And also may support other theories, but clearly argues against the existing form of Evolution Theory forced in all public education systems.

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a short video outlining some of this;

"The Truth About Intelligent Design (and Why It’s Suppressed)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66RbE7C7U-M

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God Bless., Steve

Eric M. Howard II's avatar

SB 771 From California Penalty Payments are $ 500,000 level one $ 1,000,000 within state borders. Intentionally and willfully. In connection to hate speech. Will this law take effect on January 1st 2026 or sometime their after ?

Frank's avatar

From what I have heard, the fines apply to platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc,) and not to individuals. I could be wrong.

Also, would connecting to a VPN server that is outside of California (or outside the USA) prevent this issue?

Phillip Hickox's avatar

Copied from Edith Cowan University website.

Professor Moira Sim is Executive Dean, School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University

Background

Professor Moira Sim is a general practitioner and a specialist addiction medicine physician with over 30 years in clinical practice in the community and has been at ECU since 2004. Moira has worked to increase access to quality care through professional education, advocacy and the establishment of system change through many roles in the healthcare system.

Moira holds a Clinical Adjunct position at the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Western Australia, and is a member of the Impairment Review Committee at the Nurses and Midwives Board and a panel list on the Impairment Review Committee and Professional Standards Committee for the Medical Board for the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. She is part of the education team for Medical Defence Australia National. Moira has served as Medical Director to Silver Chain’s Home Hospital, and as a member of the Medical Defence Association President’s Medical Liaison Council, the Western Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care, the Musculoskeletal Network Executive Advisory Group, the Psychotherapeutic Drugs Committee of the Western Australian Therapeutics Advisory Group and the Care and Strategic Services Advisory Group at Amana Living.

Moira has previously been Chair of the Osborne Division of General Practitioners, Deputy Chair of General Practice Divisions of Western Australia, Deputy Chairperson of the Western Australian Faculty of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Board Director of Australian Divisions of General Practice and she has led a team which provided medical advice for the Health and Disability Services Complaints Office in Western Australia. She is a peer reviewer for the journals BMJ Open, Australian Family Physician, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, and Drug and Alcohol Review. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine(the Royal Australasian College of Physicians).

Tom Golden's avatar

I think they forgot the part about being a bigot.

Stephen Baskerville's avatar

Important story, not the least for demonstrating that feminism constitutes the cutting edge of this “cancelling” craze (though I am not sure if anyone said that directly).

I must say though that we are only scratching the surface if we believe that this is limited to researchers like Dr Nuzzo, who are at least blessed with the opportunity to speak out. The cancelling machinery has now become much more elaborate and even repressive than most of us can possibly imagine and goes far beyond even dismissal and ruining careers. Not only must we consider many more scholars of integrity who are never “cancelled” because they are never hired in the first place; even more serious are the far greater number who are being cancelled in secret and who must keep it that way for fear of even more draconian punishments.

Many are coerced into signing “non-disparagement” (not just “non-disclosure”) agreements, opening them to expropriation for any criticism of the institution in any form (for life), in order to receive a few weeks more of their livelihood – even if what they say is 100% accurate.

Still worse, universities now have mechanisms in place that allow them to confiscate virtually all the property of a dissident or critical professor and incarcerate him without trial. Can such a thing really be possible? Readers of Tom Golden or Janice Fiamengo should have no trouble understanding and believing how it is very possible. University employment contracts now contain mandatory arbitration clauses requiring employment disputes to be adjudicated not by courts but by arbitrators selected by the institution. Among their weapons to silence dissent (and there are others) is the power to issue restraining orders, instantly stopping the mouths of critics, heretics, and dissidents. Anyone familiar with family law knows that violating restraining orders usually carries a mandatory prison sentence, over which a judge has no discretion (thanks to feminists). This is the fate that can await professors and researchers who dare to criticize their universities or voice unorthodox views. So we can thank family law – and therefore feminists – for this astonishing legal innovation. It is only one example of how constitutional rights violations pioneered in the feminists’ family courts have broken out of the confines of family law and are corrupting the entire judiciary, abrogating not just academic freedom but rights as basic as freedom of speech. If you have trouble believing all this, it is fully documented in a refereed article published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal (https://www.jamesgmartin.center/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Scholastic-Gag-Orders.pdf), the same organization mentioned by Dr Nuzzo for publishing his own work. A summary is published in The College Fix (https://www.thecollegefix.com/new-paper-warns-universities-use-legal-tricks-to-silence-controversial-professors/), and the article was cited in National Review (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/college-officials-find-new-ways-to-silence-unwanted-professors/).

James L. Nuzzo's avatar

Thanks for the comment and links, Stephen. I will read the articles that you have shared.

Bruce Eden's avatar

Mandatory arbitration is a despicable anathema to substantive and procedural Due Process. It is a direct violation of Due Process and Equal Protection Under Law, and repugnant to American traditions and the American Constitution. Dr. Nuzzo must demand that any mandatory arbitration finding be thrown out on the basis of due process and equal protection constitutional violations, conflict-of-interest and bias (especially political and gender bias).

Stephen Baskerville's avatar

All true. Nuzzo did not mention mandatory arbitration. That is something I have researched.

Bruce Eden's avatar

Even still. If one is forced to sign a non-disparagement or non-disclosure agreement, they also need to include an addendum in the agreement to say that if unsatisfied with outcome of mandatory arbitration, one can still file suit in the courts and litigate it. In some states, mandatory arbitration can be directly appealed to the appellate courts.

Stephen Baskerville's avatar

That is precisely what they do not want and will not allow. As you suggest, the procedure has nothing to do with justice except as something to be avoided. The point is intimidation. It most cases there is not likely to be any outcome. The potential punishments are so menacing and unlimited that the entire purpose is to make sure no one tests it by opening his mouth.

Björn Jonsson's avatar

I think Jim should sue his former university for breach of contract, harassment and violation of university policy. The bullying Jim endured is completely unacceptable. The university must be held accountable.

Björn Jonsson's avatar

This is gender Lysenkoism. Not being able to challenge the approved orthodoxy on gender, like sex differences. The university has clearly abridged academic freedom. But this is how it goes in an ideological and totalitarian education system. Sad to see Australian scientific integrity be undermined because of "wrongthink".

Frank's avatar

Once the government shutdown is over, James can file a federal civil rights complaint against the entities that cancelled him,

https://civilrights.justice.gov/

Frank's avatar

I recommend that James use the site givesendgo.com instead of gofundme.com

Andy's avatar

Thanks for this interview - I'll have a coffee then read that piece on his substack. But I have to say that even this interview alone is a valuable behind-the-scenes look at the way woke cancellation culture works. It astounds me that Moira Sim is so happy to let the world know the level of her patheticness and vindictiveness