PD,
I'm just as afraid of a society that is afraid to ask itself questions or makes particular questions off limits. Should we find appalling the laws in some countries that prevent people from questioning details of the holocaust? Should one get arrested for writing a paper claiming that 5.5 million instead of 6 million jews were killed during World War II? Does academia function best by permitting all questions and letting the researchers themselves decide who are the charlatans or does it sometimes need a little help from our law-makers?
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