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Belgians in the Congo? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian... or specifically Ghent?

The project description reads as follows: “Across all Abrahamic religions, it has been found that the more religious people are, the more children they have" Yeah nothing good was ever going to come of this.

This is quite a bind here as framed in the conclusion (had a quick look at the doc). It also seems like Ghent basically gave this guy asylum.

More serious matters aside, any dropbox link ending "dl=0" can be improved by making it "dl=1".

That’s quite a document. Looks like de Vries was interested in helping Cofnas out from early on and basically plastered him on to his ERC grant, despite the fact that this is not what Cofnas does.

We were given permission to share it individually. Central administration concurred in it having to be taken off the website "because it might confuse people and make them think that this is Ghent University's position, not just the department's"

Interesting statement of the department, but without signatures. At the end of this procedure, what was the position of Ghent university? Of the ErC evaluation committee? And what about De Vriese position?

Cofnas is an absolute arseface of a human being.

Great read. I think especially the quote:"racist claims are certainly worth investigating. But extraordinary claims require exceptionally strong evidence, and I don’t see any of that here." shows that academic freedom, science, requires evidence (else it's just free speech). 1/3

"In the recruitment of academic staff, budget holders enjoy autonomy that can be abused in extreme cases, but in all cases reflects an outdated management culture" This is a sector wide problem and has been for decades. Professional processes would have prevented not just Cofnas appt but Arday too

Waiting to see American Renaissance pop up, and - bingo.

also see, new info dropped in form of internal document 6/n

The fact BBC did this they are very complicit. Same thing happens here in the media

Hopefully not for much longer. From yesterday.

Sadly, I think you're right. The racist media did what it does.

>forget Arday not gonna happen For years now when you say "distinguished black social science academic" people will think Arday and not Sowell

Probably he's going for a style indeed

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From the department statement: Cofnas' writings are ‘the academic version of “flood the zone with shit” (Steve Bannon’s famous statement about the Trump campaign in 2016): spread controversial, unsubstantiated claims that others must respond to.’