Comments on: If you’re copy-editing, you’re correcting for HITLER!

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:45:24 +0000

‘But unfortunately, people on the left seem to possess a conceptual difficulty identifying the difference’ hoist by his own petard.

By: Zack

Zack — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 04:58:26 +0000

This news has been doing the rounds of professional organizations for more than a year. I posted about it a couple of months ago. According to my understanding, the embargo is not against Iranians but against Iran. The difference being that Iranians in the US or Europe etc. can still publish their work. If we take this policy to its logical conclusion, shouldn’t there be a ban on accepting college applications from Iranian students as well?

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 04:29:32 +0000

What Belle said. Ted was complimenting libertarians, saying that indeed they never would do such a thing, and hence, “this way to the libertarian recruitment center”, e.g., this policy is the best possible way you could imagine to drive people to libertarianism.

By: Belle Waring

Belle Waring — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 03:43:47 +0000

Sir: you have missed Ted’s point. He is saying that this type of thing is apt to turn one to libertarianism, not that evil libertarians are always promoting free speech restrictions to advance their world-hegemonic goals.

By: Sir

Sir — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 03:34:54 +0000

Libertarians would never do something like this, because, above all, they recognize the individual above the state. The state has very little right to tell an individual what how or whether they can interact with humans. This article describes a NeoCon policy. But unfortunately, people on the left seem to possess a conceptual difficulty identifying the difference.

By: Detached Observer

Detached Observer — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:53:12 +0000

The really outrageous part of the story is this: “Tara Bradshaw, a Treasury Department spokeswoman, confirmed the restrictions on manuscripts from Iran in a statement. Banned activities include, she wrote, ‘collaboration on and editing of the manuscripts, the selection of reviewers , and facilitation of a review resulting in substantive enhancements or alterations to the manuscripts.’” By this criterion, no peer-reviewed journal could publish an article by an Iranian scholar. Incredible. In my own field (applied math/electrical engineering), there is a large number of prominent Iranian scientists that get published regularly in American journals.