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Deepa, Yes. There were petitions for withdrawal of the article. I disagreed with them and agreed with Noam Chomsky and others who said that rebuttal was the right answer rather than post-facto censorship. But there is, of course, nothing wrong with signing a petition that I disagree with. There is, however, something very wrong with making threats of violence such as this. There is something very wrong with giving in to such threats. There is also something wrong in the refusal to condemn such threats (and the refusal to condemn giving in to threats.) If we discover in a short while that T&F has called in law enforcement to identify and prosecute those who made the threat and that they then reinstate the article, I will apologize to Taylor & Francis for objecting to their apparent capitulation to thuggery but until them, I call on decent people to condemn this indecency. Gunnar Gunnar Swanson East Carolina University graphic design program http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graphic/index.cfm [log in to unmask] Gunnar Swanson Design Office 1901 East 6th Street Greenville NC 27858 USA http://www.gunnarswanson.com [log in to unmask] +1 252 258-7006 > On Oct 9, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Deepa Butoliya <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello Gunnar, > > It wasn't just the threats of violence. I am one of the thousands of > academicians and students who signed the petition to withdraw that article > (peacefully) as the content of the said *academic article* was highly > problematic and offensive to many. > > Regards, > Deepa Butoliya > > > > > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:59 AM Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> I’m not sure that we need to worry about plagiarism. Since threats of >> violence can now get an academic paper withdrawn by a major publisher (see >> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037 ), I’m >> sure that a "serious and credible" threat should also work to pass a class, >> get a degree, or get published. >> >> >> Gunnar ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------