A professor at Western University in London, Ont., is accusing a colleague of hiding behind the protections of academic freedom to spread misinformation about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and other public health measures.
“Academic freedom comes with academic responsibilities,” said Jacob Shelley, who holds a joint appointment with Western’s faculty of law and the school of health studies, and directs the school’s Health Ethics, Law & Policy lab. “That means having integrity in our research, not just to say whatever the hell we want.”Â
Shelley’s scorn is directed at Donald Welsh, a professor of physiology at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
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