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RUSH: Now, you might have heard about this<\/a>, but there\u2019s more to this than meets the eye and that\u2019s why I, your host, am here: to read the stitches on the fastball. I\u2019m here to read between the lines. “A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university\u2019s decision to deny him tenure…” He claims the denial was based on race. His name is James Sherley. He is “a stem cell scientist.” Hang on. “[H]e tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to reverse the department head\u2019s rejection of his tenure bid. ‘I\u2019m not actually doing this to get tenured,\u2019 Sherley said. ‘I\u2019m doing this for the reason that I wasn\u2019t tenured ? which is racism ? and I want this institution to admit that that is the problem and make plans to do something about it.\u2019 After a last meal ? two bowls of Chex cereal ? Sherley stood outside provost L. Rafael Reif\u2019s office in protest, accompanied by about 25 friends and supporters. University administrators denied Sherley\u2019s allegations and said less than half of junior faculty members are promoted to tenured positions.”<\/line> Now, Sherley, James Sherley is 5\u20198″ and 254 pounds. So the hunger strike is well timed and will have a side benefit here that will be a good thing for him. He said he “planned to ingest only water and vitamins and electrolyte supplements until the university acknowledges its racism.” Well, he might get down to 80 pounds here. (Laughing.) What\u2019s that? (interruption) Well, yeah, we did learn this. I forget the name of the case, but we have learned that starvation will lead to euphoria. A lot of people like euphoria. They don\u2019t experience it very much, and starvation can lead to it. So, you never know. He might end up being happier. He might not even care about tenure by the time this goes on. But here is the key to this: “Mr. Sherley, who is 49, works with adult stem cells. He opposes research using human embryonic stem cells because he believes it amounts to taking human life.” Now, is this the real racism? <\/line> Is he being denied tenure not because of his race, but because he\u2019s on the politically incorrect side of an issue of science? If you want to know — if you had any doubts — that science has become as politicized as any other institution in America, you need look no further than this story. Here\u2019s a guy who wants tenure. He thinks he\u2019s not getting it because it\u2019s race based. He\u2019s simply on the wrong side of the stem cell issue! This is MIT. They\u2019re not going to tenure a guy who doesn\u2019t fall in line on this embryonic stem cell business. “In September, Mr. Sherley won a prestigious $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health,” but it means nothing. Now he\u2019s on a starvation diet, simply because he hasn\u2019t gotten tenure. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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