LETTER: Knee-jerk reaction over Nicoli Nattrass sullies UCT’s good name
14 July 2020 - 19:32
Michael Cherry’s disturbing article refers (“Deafening silence from UCT colleagues of Nicoli Nattrass”, July 9). Like Cherry, I do not wish to engage with the academic merits of Nattrass’s arguments. At stake here are broader issues related to academic freedom and institutional fairness.
The most striking element of this incident is the grandstanding denouncement of Nattrass’s article by “the executive” before any investigation into the merits of her writing, or the ethics clearance she had obtained from the university itself, had been conducted...
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