What Should We Do About Beliefs That Are Widely Held And Highly Reviled?

A bit more on the Don McNeil situation...

We now have a fuller account of what Don McNeil, Jr., the longtime New York Times science writer pressured to resign as a result of his conduct on a Times-sponsored student trip to Peru, may have actually said to elicit such a strong reaction from the students. The most authoritative account comes from the Times’ own Ben Smith. It’s an interesting artic…