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28. BS- that it is "illegal"

In effect Dr. Hagelstein has blown the whistle on blatant, potentially illegal, intervention in the scientific method at MIT.
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Why do people fabricate all kinds of legal imperatives so that they can say something is illegal???

MIT is a private university, and the choice of what it wants to work on and not work on is up to MIT's administration.

If some professor dreams up a project that the MIT Administration deems as being foolish, and injurious to the Institute's reputation; then they can over-ride the professor and say they won't do that research.

There's no law that compels a University, especially a private one; into doing a particular line of research. Even if some legislature attempted it; it would be Constitutionally dubious.

MIT can decided what research it is willing to pursue, and in that they are responsible solely to the MIT Corporation which is the governing board in lieu of a board of regents.

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