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LINK Dutch universities open hotline for threatened scientists and academics | NL Times

Full Article: On Monday, the universities in the Netherlands opened a hotline for scientists who receive threats. According to the universities, scientists have experienced “too much” online hatred, physical threats, and harassment in recent years. They hope the hotline will make it easy for them to find help.

WetenschapVeilig is a website and a telephone control room that is available 24/7. Scientists can report threats there and find information about where to go for the correct help. Every threat is also forwarded to the scientist’s employer, who will contact them to arrange further support.

Pieter Dusienberg of the umbrella organization University of the Netherlands, one of the initiators behind WetenschapVeilig, called threats “an attack on academic freedom.” Many universities have special teams of security specialists or lawyers who can help threatened scientists. WetenschapVeilig will connect them to those teams directly, he said to RTL Nieuws.

The platform will be launched at a gathering on Monday. It is the initiative of the Universities of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science supports the platform.

HankHunter13 7 Nov 15
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It is amazing that in this age things like that happen.

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I guess they know how Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei felt. This is not the 1600s though it would seem too many want to drag us down with their ignorance.
A hotline for threatened scientists!?!?! WTF it's 2022!

Well I think we know who an overwhelming majority of them are. It’s quite obvious.

@CuddyCruiser It's not obvious to me.
In the realm of religion and politics there resides a broad spectrum of dangerous crazies. I don't believe they have a lot in common. To borrow an old cliché, I think that most of them are marching to their own drummer. That imagined drummer can be dangerous.

@CuddyCruiser i think, the fundamentalist islamic, jew haters,
are proven dangerous, and deadly serious. salman rushdie.
newspaper caricatures of historic muslim leaders. "and so on".

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