One question that comes to mind regarding Jonathan Gruber's "paid to obfuscate" testimony regarding the Health Insurance Deform Act, a.k.a. "Obamacare", is what consequences Gruber and his minions and cronies ought to face for more or less deceiving the public to get HIDA passed.
For my part, it is my opinion that tenure ought to protect the right of professors to investigate unpopular areas and propagate their sincerely held views, but that it ought not protect those who use their credentials to lie for political gain. There is a place for ethics requirements in academia, and there ought not be a place in academia for liars like Jonathan Gruber.
Ripple Effect
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I say this fully aware it might be deeply insensitive. By the way, “Deeply
Insensitive” was the caption in the high school annual my senior year, so
that t...
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