Summary
As state colleges and universities begin the school year, deans and trustees should familiarize themselves with a group called "Scholars for 9/11 Truth." This group, the new locus for September 11 conspiracy theories, believes that the official history of the terrorist attacks is a hoax. But unlike garden-variety conspiracy clubs, this one happens to count nearly two dozen professors, instructors and other affiliates at state college and universities around the country among its members. Insofar as these people allow their nutty political beliefs to infect their teaching, school officials had better be equipped to make some decisions.
The University of New Hampshire probably wishes it had that advice last week. Over the weekend, a tenured professor of psychology, William Woodward, came under fire from Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican and State Senate President Ted Gatsas for telling the New Hampshire Union Leader that "there was a genuine conspiracy on the part of insiders at the highest level of our government" to orchestrate the September 11 terrorist attacks. This, of course, was compounded by another revelation: Mr. Woodward hopes to teach a class on the attacks. The class would examine them "in psychological terms terms like belief, conspiracy, fear, truth, courage, group dynamics," he told the Union Leader.See the full content of this document
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The New Nutty Professors
It's not just Mr. Woodward's sheer nuttiness that bothers people. It'...
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