Public lectures and reports
Sir,—Academics dislike giving public lectures because the media seldom report their statements with the same qualifications and cautions with which they are given. Conflict gains attention. More copies are sold if differences are accentuated, but it is distressing to see the distortions. I did not say homosexuals are a menace (the “Tablet”). I did not applaud Soviet legislation limiting jobs for women (“The Press”). I do not blame women only for social and family problems (Gibbs). In fact, the greatest support for unrestricted abortion comes from white Anglo-Saxon males. While in Australia, I addressed groups in two universities and a conference of telephone counsellors. The contents of the one public lecture I gave on human ecology, which I think people found reasonably interesting, was never reported. Sex education was not the topic in any of those addresses. — Yours, etc., PHILIP G. NEY, Professor of Psychological Medicine. July 18, 1985.
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