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Free speech and pseudonymy.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: While I share Jonathan Wilson's traditional--indeed, canonical--Christian objection to homosexual behaviour, I am sceptical about much of the case which he presents in "The Scepticism That Dare Not Speak its Name" (December 2004).
On the other hand, I support entirely his assumption of a nom de plume. Political correctness has been described as "academic AIDS", but it could be just as accurately designated as a species of neo-McCarthyism. The "fearless" professor cited by Chris Thomson (Letters, January-February 2005) taught in an earlier and more tolerant era.
It is all too possible today for academics to have their careers destroyed if they step outside the barriers prescribed by a coterie of self-appointed bien pensants. Resort to anonymity, on the model of samizdat writers (by which I am not suggesting that we live in anything approximating to the Soviet Union) might be the only means of preserving expression of a genuine breadth of opinion.
Bill James,
Melbourne, Vic.
SIR: In response to the fact (if not the ...
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