Delaware State U. won’t interfere with free speech of professor spreading Ebola conspiracy theories [View all]
Source: Washington Post
By Abby Phillip September 26 at 10:57 AM
Delaware State University said it won’t interfere with the free speech rights of a tenured professor who wrote a wildly speculative article in a Liberian newspaper in which he claimed that the U.S. government manufactured the Ebola virus and spread it in West Africa under the guise of vaccine testing.
“The university is not going to abridge his First Amendment rights to give his opinion about the issues of the day,” said Carlos Holmes, a spokesman for the school, where Cyril Broderick is an associate professor in the agriculture and natural resources department.
The article in question — headlined “Ebola, AIDS Manufactured By Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD?” — appeared in a major Liberian newspaper, the Daily Observer, earlier this month.
“Reports narrate stories of the US Department of Defense (DoD) funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone,” Broderick wrote. ... Officials at the university first became aware of Broderick’s article on Friday, after The Post reported on its contents, Holmes said.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/26/delaware-state-wont-interfere-with-free-speech-of-professor-spreading-ebola-conspiracy-theories/?tid=trending_strip_2
America, where Congress shall make no law preventing you from being crazy.
Here's the original WaPo article:
A professor in U.S. is telling Liberians that the Defense Department ‘manufactured’ Ebola
By Terrence McCoy September 26 at 3:17 AM
....
And now, in what may plant further seeds of mistrust and suspicion, a major Liberian newspaper, the Daily Observer, has published an article by a Liberian-born faculty member of a U.S. university implying the epidemic is the result of bioterrorism experiments conducted by the United States Department of Defense, among others.
His DSU website: Cyril Broderick, PhD
= new reply since forum marked as read