A professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury says he has been stopped from teaching a first-year psychology class after asking students to sign off on his use of vulgar language. Dr. Michael Persinger says he has taught the course this way for years and employs the impact of words not normally used in polite society to show how emotion created by them “affects the brain’s rational processes”. Dr. Persinger is a neuroscientist. He says he has used the “Statement of Understanding” to begin the course for years. The statement lists a sample of words that might be used during class and includes the F-word, homophobic slurs and offensive slang for genitalia. He says he was called to the university provost’s office after the first class this year and told he was no longer permitted to teach the course.
DR. PERSINGER’S HISTORY
Readers recall that Dr.Persinger has been a contentious figure for many years. He was, it is said, a proponent of the “God brain” based on neuro-physiology and a US military backed effort to “remote view” things over time and space. He has been a CBC source for some time and it is said that he once got a journalist to believe that he was having a machine-induced religious moment.
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