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What is tenure good for?

March 20th, 2010

As far as I’m concerned, its real purpose is to protect people like historian Robert Proctor at Stanford from things like the onslaught of Big Tobacco on his research. After all, he coined the term “agnotology” — and now he’s living it.

Anything else is pretty extraneous, after all.

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