Professors who step out of line get punished by the left, even when they’ve done nothing wrong.
The College Fix reports:
Court sides with U. Pittsburgh professor demoted for criticizing affirmative actionA federal appeals court reinstated a medical professor’s defamation and civil rights retaliation case against the University of Pittsburgh last week over an article he wrote criticizing affirmative action.“I have devoted my career to caring for patients, training the next generation of physicians, and contributing to scholarship within my field. When I published this article, I was doing the same thing,” Dr. Norman Wang said in a statement after the ruling.In its July 7 opinion, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a federal judge erred in dismissing most of the doctor’s claims last year. The ruling means his lawsuit can move forward.
The medical professor expressed relief at the court’s decision, saying it “strongly supported my version of the events and rejected the narratives and excuses from the defendants.”
“No professor should be demoted for raising honest questions in a peer-reviewed academic journal,” Wang said.Wang is represented by the Center for Individual Rights, a legal organization that works to restore individual rights essential for a free and flourishing society. The center referred The College Fix to the professor’s statement when contacted for comment this week.The center described the Third Circuit ruling as a huge step for “scholars who are punished for taking positions that oppose the race-preference and DEI orthodoxy within academia,” according to its news release.In 2020, Wang published an article in the Journal of American Heart Association arguing affirmative action harmed the medical academy, The Fix previously reported.Prior to his article, he worked in the university’s medical center for nearly two decades. He was also the director for the cardiology fellowship program where he helped select and train fellows.According to the appeals court ruling, four months after his article was published, a doctor filed a complaint against Wang on July 29, 2020.
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