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Closing young minds

The ‘Lomborg affair’ shows the intellectual bankruptcy of contemporary Australian academia

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

Aren’t you wonderfully proud of this nation’s universities? Over there in Western Australia we see a Vice Chancellor on a seven figure salary cave in to people who oppose the contest of ideas and so decide to turn away Bjørn Lomborg and the centre he wanted to set up there, one that would have brought with it some 4 million dollars.

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