Professor Dorian Abbot: I was canceled for basing admissions on merit
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On the latest episode of Fox Nation's “Tucker Carlson Today”, the host spoke with University of Chicago geophysics professor Dorian Abbot.
Abbot, the host explained, is a Ph.D. in applied math who received his undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard.
"He responded [to MIT] by co-authoring an op-ed in Newsweek, in August, that kind of laid out what was at stake," Carlson said, going on to read aloud from Abbot's personal statement of values:
And you wrote this, "I practice fair admissions: I select students and postdocs on the basis of scientific ability and promise, and I do not discriminate against any applicant based on anything else. Period. I encourage freedom of expression and the creative exploration of ideas in my group".
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