Completely isolated in Canada, Western’s American leadership (president Alan Shepard is American) has resorted to “best practices” mode: imitating US Ivy League universities, because they are assumed to be the “best” and are always right. It is the kind of undignified mimesis, this copy-and-paste mentality, that has displaced critical thinking on most Canadian university and college campuses—but even on the Covid issue, Western exceeds all others. Fauci has resigned, and the CDC’s old guidelines have been reversed (both happening this month), yet they continue to prevail at Western. Western is apparently where bad ideas go to retire....
To read the rest of the article, please continue here:
https://disasterx.substack.com/p/the-university-of-western-ontario