Harvard’s Carole Hooven Canceled for Biological Facts
In “Academic Freedom Is Social Justice: Sex, Gender, and Cancel Culture on Campus,” Carole Hooven, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, details her cancelation (she is now on leave).
As FAIR Advisor and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker tweeted, this is “the story of my colleague, biologist Carole Hooven @hoovlet, slandered & persecuted for uttering true & banal but taboo biological facts.”
In introducing a detailed account of what transpired at Harvard, Hooven explains that “During the promotion of my recent book on testosterone and sex differences, I…explained that sex is binary and biological. In response, the director of my department’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging task force (a graduate student) accused me on Twitter of transphobia and harming undergraduates, and I responded. The tweets went viral... The public attack by the task force director runs contrary to Harvard’s stated academic freedom principles, yet no disciplinary action was taken, nor did any university administrators publicly support my right to express my views in an environment free of harassment.”
In addition to documenting what happened to her, Hooven writes that “administrators are largely failing in their responsibilities to protect scholars and their rights to express their views, and what we can do to remedy the situation.”
