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You are throwing out these statements without backing them up. If there are plenty, please name some. I know of none who have lost tenure for expressing unpopular ideas.
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So are you, so it's nothing more than a circular argument. I don't have, and I doubt even you would have, the journal articles or press statements/clippings etc, at the ready to quote from. Or even saved on your computer. If I saved everything I ever needed to quote from, say something about or use as a reference, I'd need dozens of hard drives, literally, to store it all.
Plus, I'll name two of them now...Pons and Fleischmann. They were accused of fraud, academic misconduct etc. By the same people, who it's turned out, were guilty of much the same things themselves, it appears.
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Again no, tenure is very difficult to get, requiring a proven publication record, obtaining grants, teaching and mentoring students. However once obtained, it can only be revoked for "cause". Misconduct etc. While universities don't publish their tenure positions, I think the wikipedia article on tenure is reasonably accurate
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Yes, you do need to perform in order to get tenure, I never said you didn't and it is open for any scientist to take up, so long as it's offered. Some have knocked it back, and I can see why. As I said, tenure can be tied in with grants performance, so you just repeated what I previously said.
Yes, a committee has to be convened in order to hear disputes with respect to tenure, but in some cases it's been more like a kangaroo court than a fair hearing. Plus, a hell of a lot of pressure can be put on a scientist, tenured or not, to tow the accepted line.
I like the fact that in the US you can defend your tenure in the courts. That takes it out of the hands of what could possibly be vested interests not necessarily fair nor partial with respect to the tenured scientist. Then if they're wrong in denying tenure, those scientist can sue the pants off those wishing to get rid of them. It should be the same here.
A good brisk discussion is always a pleasure to participate in...even if you don't agree with one another!!!. Now, that's science in it's truest form.