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Prof.Paul Cullen (M.D.), Associate Professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of M\u00fcnster and Chairman of the Association Doctors for Life<\/a><\/em> is to be stripped of his professorship. This is the demand of the M\u00fcnster General Students’ Committee (AStA) together with a group of “critical physicians” (sic!<\/em>) in a statement published<\/a> on 19 January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason for the uproar is not deficiencies in the teaching of the professor, who lectures in clinical chemistry, but the insinuation of “unscientific, anti-feminist and anti-Semitic” statements in relation to the abortion issue and the medical-scientific handling of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cullen has issued an open letter commenting on the two groups’ allegations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you who don’t know me from the lecture, let me mention that as a specialist in laboratory medicine, I lecture on my specialty of diabetes and dyslipidemia. These issues are dangerous for the patients involved, but certainly not for a young student preparing to help these patients.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The complainants want to preemptively protect you from statements that were never a topic of discussion in the lecture hall by demanding that I be stripped of my associate professorship. I strongly oppose this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Support for Prof. Cullen is also now being organized in the student body. A statement for free speech and cultural diversity<\/a> at WWU was published as a petition. In it, the students supporting the professor share his criticism of the allegations and argue for free science that embraces diversity of opinion and dissent: “Cheap pre-judgments or even media smear campaigns would be the last thing that would be conducive to that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Cullen’s open letter to the student body of the University of M\u00fcnster can be read in its entirety<\/a> in the petition text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In M\u00fcnster, a professor should lose his job, wish “critical physicians” (sic!) and the AStA there. Not because of his clinical chemistry lectures, but because of his commitment to the protection of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":52671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"In M\u00fcnster, a professor should lose his job, wish \"critical physicians\" (sic!) and the AStA there. 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