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Jim Fetzer, Princeton in the Nation’s Service, Class of ’62 Style (II)

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Jim Fetzer ’62   “‘It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’s been fooled”–attributed to Mark Twain   Dear Classmates,   Now that Drayton has presented his class lecture on the importance of character, “Character Matters”, I write to make a final plea as to whether the Class of ’62 has any character. The very idea that Tom Dunn, a real estate lawyer who appears to have no grasp of the principle, “Innocent until Proven Guilty” or of standards of proof (since I have refuted the claim…

Jim Fetzer, Princeton in the Nation’s Service, Class of ’62 Style

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Jim Fetzer ’62          “I do not have any interest in involving the Class of 1962 Lecture Series in your work.”                                                                                            —Thomas Dunn ’62 (19 October 2024) On 13 October 2024, I received the following announcement from Thomas Dunn regarding the Princeton…

Patricia N. Saffran, The Naming Game

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Patricia N. Saffran While university officials seem committed to social justice, they stop short when it strikes the prestige and identity of the school.  “Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford was an abolitionist in Fredericksburg VA, who owned five slaves. She opposed succession. Her son fought for the Confederacy. That shows the complexity of the issues surrounding slavery,” said Scott Walker, the tourmaster of Hallowed Ground Tours in Fredericksburg on the phone, March 23, 2023. Fast forward to today and no one can begin to understand Biblical slavery or what went on…

Wikipedia: James H. Fetzer (April 2014)

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Wikipedia James H. Fetzer [Editor’s note: This was my Wiki entry up until mid-April 2014, when I organized and moderated a conference on Academic Freedom: Are there limits to inquiry? JFK 9/11 and the Holocaust, where it was gutted, apparently  as punishment for challenging the “official narrative” of WWII, about which I subsequently published, “The Holocaust Narrative: Politics trumps Science”. I have just discovered that it archived on a site for Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. I thought it was lost forever.] James H. Fetzer James Henry Fetzer (born December 6, 1940 in Pasadena, California) is an American philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth,[1] and a well–known conspiracy theorist.[2][3][4]  He has written on the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Two of his most recent books were on the evolution of intelligence and philosophical aspects of “the Christian Right‘s crusade against science“. He is also an advocate of the 9/11 conspiracy[5] and John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. He has published three collections of studies on the death of JFK, co–authored another on the plane crash that took the life of Senator Paul Wellstone, and edited the first book from Scholars for 9/11 Truth, an organization he founded. Fetzer makes frequent appearances on radio and television. Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 Controversial views 3.1 Assassination of John F. Kennedy 3.2 September 11, 2001 attacks…

Princeton University faculty seek to establish racial thought police & punish insufficiently diverse disciplines

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RT Professors at prestigious Princeton University have assailed the school for its alleged “anti-Black racism,” issuing a lengthy list of demands including bribing departments to hire minorities (and punishing those that don’t). Over 350 Princeton faculty members have signed on to an open letter demanding the university prioritize the fight against “anti-Black racism,” which the writers insist “has a visible bearing upon Princeton’s campus makeup and its hiring practices.” Members of every department of the Ivy League school except Chemical and Biological Engineering and Operations Research and Financial Engineering have…