【美国真相】纽约大学一教授在课堂上鼓吹“口罩无用论”_风闻

以下图文来自美媒NBCNEWYORK的报道（9/23）：

一名纽约大学的学生在为她上课的教授“在课堂上花了整节课的时间告诉学生戴着口罩并不能阻止COVID-19的传播”后在社交媒体上拉响警报。

朱莉娅·杰克逊（Julia Jackson）周日在几条推文中说，纽约大学传播学教授马克·克里斯潘·米勒（Mark Crispin Miller）正在利用其职权来认证极右翼和阴谋网站，并加剧对医疗专业人员的怀疑，并呼吁解雇米勒。

 米勒在论述中援引科学研究说：口罩在阻止类似流感的呼吸道疾病的传播方面并不有效。杰克逊说，他还链接到许多极右翼和阴谋网站。

作为回应，米勒称杰克逊的推文“恶毒”，并说他告诉学生们不要忽视该州和学校的口罩强制令。他在“大众说服和宣传”课程中捍卫了这些教义，并说在全球范围内佩戴口罩是“左派”和主流媒体的宣传。

米勒认为，他想敦促学生自己思考和研究证据，而不是仅仅屈服于权威。他说：“无论纽约大学的官方政策还是纽约州的政策，这都是我作为老师的知识和公民义务。期望学生遵守学校的规定是一回事，但是敦促学生不要考虑这是另一回事。”在周一的博客文章中写道。

A New York University student raised alarm on social media after a professor for her online course on propaganda “spent an entire class period telling students that wearing masks don’t prevent the spread of COVID-19.”

In several tweets, Julia Jackson on Sunday said NYU communications professor Mark Crispin Miller is using his position of power to accredit far-right and conspiracy websites, as well as adding to skepticism around medical professionals, and called for Miller to be fired.

While Miller cites scientific studies in his argument that masks aren’t effective in stopping the spread of flu-like respiratory diseases, Jackson said he also links to many far-right and conspiracy websites.

In response, Miller called Jackson’s tweets “venomous” and said he told students to not ignore the state’s and the school’s mask mandate. He defended the teachings in his Mass Persuasion and Propaganda course and said that the worldwide mask-wearing is propaganda peddled by the “left” and mainstream media.

Miller argued that he wants to urge students to think for themselves and study the evidence instead of merely bowing to authority. “That’s my intellectual and civic obligation, as a teacher, whatever NYU’s official policy, or New York State’s. It’s one thing to expect the students to obey their institution’s rules, but quite another thing to urge them not to think about it,” he wrote in a blog post on Monday.