1.0 link 60781 <![CDATA[Can Professors Say the Truth?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-roberts/can-professors-say-the-tr_b_60781.html Kaiping Peng, a friend of mine who is a professor at Berkeley, recently said to me that professors have an unusual place in our society: They are expected to tell the truth. Hardly anyone else is, he said. But what happens when they do?

The most impressive professorial truth-telling in my lifetime has been The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003) by Michael Bailey, a professor of psychology at Northwestern. It's mainly about...

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