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By July 26th, there were two separate petitions calling for Mead’s article to be retracted.
On July 27th, the Faculty of Arts and Science at Mead’s own university, NYU, issued an official statement. It began by noting that Mead’s article “has caused great distress within our community.”
While the statement acknowledged that “Professor Mead has the same rights to freedom of expression as we all do,” it rejected “the article’s false, prejudicial, and stigmatizing assertions about the culture of communities of color.”
On 31 July, Mead’s article was retracted.
FROM THE COMMENTS:"When did the “F-U” Twitter-verse replace effective rebuttal via actual facts and evidence? When 280 characters of emotional nonsense can destroy academic papers, the tail is effectively wagging the dog."
