Shame on MIT for Bowing to a Twitter Mob

Defending Intellectual Integrity Against Cancel Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology canceled geophysicist Dorian Abbot’s lecture about climate and the likelihood of life on other planets after people on Twitter criticized his advocacy of merit-based college admissions.¹ The school confessed that its decision was intended “to avoid controversy.” As Abbot explains (using the third person), “A small gr…