On its website, the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) affirms that its main mission is to
"generate, disseminate and preserve knowledge".
This is apparently no longer the case. On September 30, the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EADS) of this American faculty canceled the attendance of Dorian Abbot
(photo), a
distinguished professor specializing in geophysics. Abbot, however, did not assert on Twitter that the Earth was flat or that global warming did not exist. He only had the misfortune of writing an op-ed in
Newsweek
in which he worried about the way affirmative action policies at some universities
"Violated the ethical and legal principles of equal treatment"
and
"treated people as a mere means of achieving a goal, putting statistics ahead of the individuality of a human being".
Faced with the pressure exerted by courageous anonymous people on Twitter,
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