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Today on Context Florida: James Tracy, execution road trip, Jim King and brute force versus compromises

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Today on Context Florida: According to Jac VerSteeg, James Tracy is creating an opening for Florida politicians who don’t like tenure and don’t like faculty unions. Because of Tracy’s case, tenure opponents could go on the attack and look good doing it. Tracy is the Florida Atlantic University communications professor who claims the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is a hoax. Tracy got into a public feud with the parents of one of the children murdered at Sandy Hook. The…

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Mitch Perry Report for 1.7.16 — Florida academic fired for unpopular (and um, questionable) views?

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James Tracy was fired last month, though the Florida Atlantic University communications professor still can file a grievance to maintain his job. Although he would certainly dispute being labeled a conspiracy theorist, that’s essentially how I learned about him when I wrote a story about conspiracy theories in Creative Loafing. Tracy claimed the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was fake. He also suggested that the Boston Marathon bombing and San Bernardino shooting were bogus as well. It’s when he got into a public dispute with the…

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Today on Context Florida: Christmas music, kooky professors and making education fun

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Today on Context Florida: There are two types of people: those who, the day after Thanksgiving, turn their radio to the all-Christmas music station, and the rest — Grinchy McGrinchersons. Heather Gibson offers her list of the good, the bad and the quintessential Christmas music. Academe would be a dreary place without its occasional kooky professor, but for Martin Dyckman, James Tracy of Florida Atlantic University is simply too much. Hired to teach about conspiracy theories, he digressed into peddling his…

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