UF researchers felt pressure to destroy COVID-19 data, not criticize DeSantis, report says
Source: Miami Herald
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.”
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