It can happen here.

[mia]

UF researchers felt pressure to destroy COVID-19 data, not criticize DeSantis, report says



The University of Florida campus in Gainesville. UF faculty allege in a new report that UF researchers working with COVID-19 data felt pressure to destroy the data and were told not to criticize Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.


MIAMI HERALD Fear of upsetting state officials is pervasive among faculty at the University of Florida, to the point that race-related references have been edited out of course materials and researchers felt pressure to destroy COVID-19 data, according to a report released Monday by a Faculty Senate committee.

The six-person panel was convened three weeks ago to investigate academic freedom issues after the university decided to bar three political science professors from testifying in a lawsuit against the state.

But its findings go well beyond that episode and were so disturbing — especially regarding COVID-19 research — that the group decided to speed up its work, said Danaya Wright, a constitutional law professor and former Faculty Senate chairperson who served on the committee. TOP VIDEOS × “We knew it was much more widespread,” Wright said in an interview Monday. “We knew there was more silencing and pressure coming from above. The Big Above.”

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article256400321.html#storylink=cpy

[Walleye]

1. DeSantis is a little would be tinpot dictator

[smirkymonkey]

5. He could very likely end up being our president one day soon.

And he will be even worse.

[Walleye]

6. Please, you're destroying my will to live

[smirkymonkey]

9. Ron DeSantis is the "Suck Kut" of US Governors!

[Walleye]

10. Perfect description

[ForgedCrank]

7. Bite your tongue damnit.

That's the last thing I need to be thinking about.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Just wanted to see who's paying attention!

[kwolf68]

2. The trifecata

Of Fascist dictatorships is to control the media, the arts and intelligentsia. These 3 institutions have been under a vicious attack for decades from the right. Actors, musicians, scientists, scholars, journalists are PE#1 in a fascist state. You either placate the state or you will be persecuted. The right knows academia and the arts especially are incubators for IDEAS and sometimes those IDEAS make people think a different way than the ruling class would choose. Thus, they must be stamped out.

So me what is happening in Florida is fascism, but it's also criminal to hide information that could save human lives.

PRO LIFE!! YAAAAAA~

[The Wizard]

3. Can we give

Florida to the Seminoles?

[keithbvadu2]

4. "...find out who you are not allowed to criticize"

The statement "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" was falsely attributed to Voltaire, the French Enlightenment philosopher. However, the phrase is believed to originate from an essay by Strom first published in 1993: "All America Must Know the Terror that is Upon Us".

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=who+you+are+not+allowed+to+criticize

[riversedge]

11. I can't imagine being a professional and being silenced by a dictator Governor of Florida!!

It is just beyond my comprehension that this happening in 2021!!