Evan Bush is a science reporter for NBC News. He can be reached at [email protected].
The firing of an editor who commented publicly about the Israel-Hamas war has triggered a series of resignations at a scientific journal and exposed a rift among some in the academic community about free speech and whose voices are elevated in science. The board of the biomedical and life sciences journal eLife fired its editor-in-chief, Michael Eisen, after he posted on the X platform on Oct.
” Derya Unutmaz, a professor and immunologist at the Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit research group based in Maine, spoke out about Eisen’s post on X the day after it was posted, and later said in an interview that he felt someone in such a prominent position in science had a responsibility to be sensitive to Israelis whose families might have been affected by violence, including Israeli scientists.
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