The Extra Face in Mount Rushmore

[Timothy_Horton]

@Agauger

As a symptom of the prejudice we face, someone here said he thought it was justifiable to can students who had attended the summer seminar, because “if you were a hospital would you hire a doctor who rejected the germ theory of disease in lieu of voodoo chants and reading chicken entrails?”

Dr. Gauger that is a blatant falsehood on your part. Here is our actual exchange

@AGauger

As to why the protection of student identities, are you not paying attention? Students who are openly ID will be refused positions, denied degrees, be unable to find a post-doc, and will mysteriously never get a call from 100s of job applications. A grad student who attends whose name is noticed by her PI might have something like this happen: “So where did you go this July?
Student mumbles.
" I saw your name mentioned in connection with the DI Summer Seminar. How was it?”
Student perks up. “Great!”
Professor;"Sorry to hear that. There will be a meeting with your committee to discuss this. Anyone who falls for that ID pseudoscience doesn’t belong in biochemistry (or genetics or molecular biology or…)

I’ll ask again: why do you think that is?

If you were a hospital would you hire a doctor who rejected the germ theory of disease in lieu of voodoo chants and reading chicken entrails?

NOWHERE did I say or imply students should be canned for attending seminars. You complained you though that would happen and I merely asked you why do you think that is?

Your twisting of words and making up imaginary conversations is getting rather annoying.