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Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

Also see... 2/n

He's not in some marginal place or unemployed or anything. > UGent has defended its decision, stating that Cofnas was selected through a "procedurally correct" process that evaluated candidates based on qualifications like publications and expertise. www.brusselstimes.com/2007046/ghen... 3/n

How is he still at Ghent? Has there been any statement on their part here or is it just business as usual?

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5... Statement of the department. Has been taken offline due to complaint of the prof who hired Cofnas

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.

"How we we, good liberals, stop the jews and muslims from having so many babies that we lose the majority through demographic change, but still be good liberals" - Winning Entry in the 2026 Cursed Academia Prize Sounds like they hired the *perfect* guy to tackle this question.

How the fuck has this tendentious bullshit got funding?

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.

Cofnas was not hired on the ERC grant, but on an internal grant: research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/...

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?

No signatures because it was approved as collective departmental statement. Cofnas was not hired with De Vries's ERC grant but on a project funded internally.

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

The quotes from C on How to take back academia describes an actual attack on academic freedom, there is nothing about adding to the human body of knowledge through rigourus research, just removal of opposing views, of delusional thugs. 2/3

"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

Yes...

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