{"id":96805,"date":"2019-03-29T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=96805"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:15","slug":"universities-and-knaw-feel-no-need-to-counter-baudets-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/03\/29\/universities-and-knaw-feel-no-need-to-counter-baudets-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities and KNAW feel no need to counter Baudet\u2019s criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, 12 scientists at Radboud University in Nijmegen published an open letter<\/a><\/u> calling on their board to \u2018take a firm stand for academic freedom and independence\u2019. According to the signatories, Baudet\u2019s rhetoric undermines the legitimacy of educational institutions and their staff. \u201cHe\u2019s raising the spectre of an imaginary \u2018fifth column\u2019,\u201d write the academics, and for some scientists this constitutes a tangible threat to their person.<\/p>\n

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Legal expert Bregje Dijksterhuis, who like Baudet graduated from Leiden University, believes he is abusing his scientific knowledge and authority. This can\u2019t be prevented, notes Dijksterhuis in a recent opinion piece published on VU University\u2019s Advalvas<\/a><\/u>. \u201cBut we are free to resist and oppose it. It\u2019s our duty as academics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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