{"id":10777,"date":"2012-03-21T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/03\/21\/academic-freedom-and-aids-deni\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T07:00:26","slug":"academic-freedom-and-aids-deni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/academic-freedom-and-aids-deni\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Freedom and Aids Denialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting development in the area of Aids Denialism (and by extention climate change denialism and the rest of it) in Italy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of Florence has launched an inquiry into the teaching activities of an academic who assisted on a course that denies the causal link between HIV and AIDS, and supervised students with dissertations on the same topic.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian university&#8217;s internal &#8216;special commission&#8217; will examine the &#8220;teaching behaviour and responsibility&#8221; of molecular biologist Marco Ruggiero, a university spokesman told <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/inquiry-launched-over-aids-contrarian-s-teaching-1.10250?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20120320\">Details and more here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting development in the area of Aids Denialism (and by extention climate change denialism and the rest of it) in Italy: The University of Florence has launched an inquiry into the teaching activities of an academic who assisted on a course that denies the causal link between HIV and AIDS, and supervised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/academic-freedom-and-aids-deni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic Freedom and Aids Denialism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1882],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2NP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}