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The Limits of Academic Freedom

May 24, 2018August 20, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / 1 Comment

We need to acknowledge the role we all play in silencing research. Consider the times we have dismissed a colleague’s idea because it ‘isn’t worth it’, or immediately assumed a paper must be faulty in some way because we don’t like its conclusions.

Saying No to the CIA… and Other Anth Fantasies

May 17, 2018August 20, 2018 / Ian Pollock / 1 Comment

It doesn’t go without saying, so I’ll say it: I’ve never worked for the CIA, or done any intelligence or security work of any kind, nor would I. But all through my years living abroad, in Indonesia and Australia, I harbored a secret fantasy, that maybe, one day, I would be tapped.

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