Thursday, 29 July 2021, 11:49 am
The Free Speech Union is backing a University Lecturer's
fight for academic freedom, against University of Waikato
attempts to stop him from describing people as "cranks", who
claim on religious authority that the earth is flat, and
that people lived alongside dinosaurs.
Dr Raymond
Richards who teaches history at the University of Waikato
faces potential disciplinary action for his lectures about
methods of critical thinking in history.
A
spokesperson for the Union, Stephen Franks says, “When
anti-vaxxers are reminding us that the difference between
science and superstition may mean life or death for innocent
people, freedom for people to call things as they see them