{"id":7741,"date":"2016-03-03T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2016-03-03T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:03:37","slug":"alice-dreger-galileos-middle-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7741","title":{"rendered":"Alice Dreger: Galileo&#8217;s Middle Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alicedreger.com\/sites\/default\/files\/resize\/field\/image\/Alice%20Dreger%202015%20writing_16-350x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Dreger<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PROFS is pleased to cosponsor a public discussion with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alicedreger.com\/\">Alice Dreger<\/a>, a former clinical professor at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<p>Dreger,\u00a0author of <em><em><a title=\"Visit Penguin Press website to learn more\" href=\"http:\/\/thepenguinpress.com\/book\/galileos-middle-finger-heretics-activists-and-the-search-for-justice-in-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Galileo\u2019s Middle Finger:\u00a0Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>will talk about academic freedom and how it relates to research. She will also share\u00a0ways in which researchers can work individually and together to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>She will speak at <strong>noon, Friday, March 4<\/strong> in the Wisconsin Idea Room in the Education Building, <a href=\"http:\/\/map.wisc.edu\/s\/7ncf49w6\">1000 Bascom Mall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is event is hosted by the <a title=\"Visit WISCAPE website\" href=\"http:\/\/wiscape.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)<\/a> and cosponsored by the <a title=\"Visit Holtz Center website\" href=\"http:\/\/sts.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies<\/a>, the <a title=\"Visit Dept. of History of Science website\" href=\"http:\/\/histsci.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of History \u200bof Science<\/a>, and the <a title=\"Visit Wisconsin HOPE Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wihopelab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin HOPE Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROFS is pleased to cosponsor a public discussion with\u00a0Alice Dreger, a former clinical professor at Northwestern University. Dreger,\u00a0author of Galileo\u2019s Middle Finger:\u00a0Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science,\u00a0will talk about academic freedom and how it relates to research.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7741\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41,143],"class_list":["post-7741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-academic-freedom","tag-alice-dreger","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}