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@ Fat_₿ank$t€r
2025-04-29 17:21:12
His college and the media in his home country Belgium made him a oaria by calling him an antivaxxer and conspiracy nut. His college (UGent) even banned his own book Totalitarianism to he used in classrooms.
https://www.hln.be/binnenland/mijn-boek-wordt-verboden-omstreden-prof-ugent-mag-niet-langer-alleen-zijn-eigen-vak-geven~a1427d76/
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“My book is banned.” Controversial UGent professor no longer allowed to teach his own course alone
Psychology professor Mattias Desmet (UGent) is no longer allowed to teach his course ‘Culture and Social Criticism’ alone. Earlier, students testified at HLN.be how he “flirted with comparisons between the corona measures and the Holocaust” in his lessons. His book ‘Psychology of Totalitarianism’ is also being scrapped, because UGent judges that it does not meet scientific standards - with statements that it was not the virus, but a process of “collective hypnosis” that was the problem during the pandemic.