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307. Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism

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Free Speech on University Campuses

Berkeley is still indelibly associated with because of the free speech movement of 1964. It's easy to get distracted by a group of students who are agitating about this or, you know, concerns about legitimate, but nevertheless, tangential debates among phenomenally students and the student body. The real research work of the university goes on. Much of the innovation that gets designed and packaged and brought to market in places like Silicon Valley or in Cambridge, Massachusetts comes out of fundamental research done at universities.

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