I don’t believe you.

That doesn’t change the way adjunct professor employment contracts work and other adjunct professors have been fired under similar circumstances, but I see you’re another person who would rather be needlessly obnoxious than have an actual discussion, so I’m not sure why I’m bothering.

Only the wealthy too stupid to realize that communicable diseases don’t care how rich you are and they spread a hell of a lot more easily when lots of people can’t get treated for them.

People will die.

South Korea is way ahead of the U.S. in medical biotech.

I guess you’re so busy being rude that you’re only going to selectively read what I write, so I don’t think I need to keep talking to you.

I know what’s in a typical employment contract for an adjunct professor because I’ve spent my entire life around academia in one way or another. It doesn’t sound like you have.

Forget it, this troll has resorted to out-and-out insults with me. Just flag them like I did.

If that’s all you have, you have nothing. Because I’m sure you’re smart enough to know that she was fired for violation of her employment contract and I’m sure you’re smart enough to know that adjunct professors get fired all the time for a hell of a lot less than this.

Because you tried to frame this as a free speech issue when it isn’t. It’s a violation of employment contract issue.

Okay, you can make it into a big race thing if you want, but the fact still remains, being an adjunct professor means you can get fired for almost anything, so you probably shouldn’t make waves.

No... I have no idea where you get the idea that employees of a public school who don’t have tenure can say whatever they want and not get fired, but that’s not how it works.

You are correct. This is not a free speech matter. If she had tried to spin this into a story about how poorly adjunct professors are treated in modern academia, she might have gotten a lot more sympathy, but she’s apparently not the brightest of people.

If you’re a professor and you go on national TV, you better hope you either have the administration’s blessing or tenure or you’re fucked. Welcome to academia, lady.

I guess that means no medical innovations are ever come up with in countries like Sweden where the profit motive has been removed from healthcare, right? Not one innovation, right?

Why do you think helping people is not enough to motivate them? People all over the world become doctors to help people. It’s only in America that people do it to get rich.

Really? You think the main thing that motivates most scientists is money? Are you running a fossil fuel company?

Keeping profit in healthcare is one of this world’s great evils.

He’s so right. There’s no difference between scuffing your bumper and living with MS.

I can see exactly why you chose your username.