They flirt on the telephone (I would have remembered if also over Skype), the professor beams at his colleagues, who try to still his enthusiasm-all to no avail. World Bikini Champion “ Denise Milani” with impressive mammaries, is immune to warnings that she’s too good to be true, and that he may be texting a scammer. Long story short: in 2012 then 68yo distinguished tenured physics “particle phenomenologist” at a North Carolina university Paul Frampton feels lonely, wants to spawn his genes so they won’t go a-waste, decides to find a mate online. In the course of that lazy-boy research, I did however recall another male academic whose post-disgrace fortunes seem significant in the light of Sam Ky‘s earlier contributions. So either such “sexual impropriety” kind of disgraces are somehow tied to the XY chromosomes, or we’re dealing with a social phenomenon – you be the judge. I do not recall a single media-spectacular case of a sexually-tainted female academic’s fall from grace. Male academics, because, although there also have been occasional women “disgracées,” the ones I recall involve all literary transgressions, plagiarism, grant fraud/ research falsification, sloppiness and the like (mainly outside the USA and with repercussions unknown). The debate has moved onto greener pastures, but I can’t stop thinking about this “ post-disgrace recycling of middle-aged male academics” theme (it’s not about me, I was never in academia, my dearest is). Not censorship simply enacting the promise of the Internet Routes Around Obstacles adage. ![]() This originally intended as a comment in the thread “ What do we do with disgraced academics” on Philip Greenspun’s Weblog, but, as comments there were closed, and this is of a general and entertaining value, I am posting it here. Perhaps the most revealing detail is that the BBC (at her majesty’s service) could have challenged the judge’s order in court but decided not to, leaving their journalist and the source completely exposed. The extraordinarily broad wording of the Terrorism Act and the vast powers it confers on law enforcement bodies mean that the police can choose to seize virtually any material that is loosely related to national security (in its broadest sense), thwarting the independence of journalists and freedom of thought of research bodies. There is growing concern that anti-terror laws in the UK are being used by the government to suppress reports and perspectives from journalists and academics that are not aligned with the government’s public discourse on sensitive subjects. This week’s installment on the UK’s abuse of anti-terror legislation:īritish police use anti-terror law to seize a journalist’s laptop in order to uncover a source used for a BBC documentary on the terrorist group ISIL: There is nothing stopping EU member states from carrying on as usual, or even ramping up their mass surveillance programs in total contempt of this resolution. So, what’s the catch? The catch is that this is a non-legislative resolution, so it carries no legal weight. The resolution also reiterates a call to suspend the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) agreement with the US. Germany is believed to be in collusion with the USA, providing the NSA access to internet and telecom data from Europe (a very serious allegation coming from the Parliament). The level of detail is damning, they don’t mince their words: France, the UK and the Netherlands are singled out as worrying examples. The Parliament is concerned by the increase in mass surveillance within the EU. EU member state governments are criticized for their inactivity and “very inadequate” response to the Snowden revelations and the Commission’s report of 2014. The “fundamental rights of EU citizens remain at risk.” EU member state governments are encouraged to drop all charges against Snowden and offer him political asylum. Europe needs a long-term alternative to Safe Harbor and it needs it soon. ![]() The European Parliament sends a sternly-worded message to the Commission about (lack of) advances in the protection of personal data from government abuse and dragnet espionage against civilians:
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