• Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists?

    From Hactar@21:1/5 to Rick B. on Thu Mar 24 20:44:53 2016
    XPost: alt.fan.cecil-adams

    In article <XnsA5D5B4A79DECC080021413@130.133.4.11>,
    Rick B. <deepstblu@sprynet.com.aq> wrote:
    Howard <howrd223@htmail.com> wrote in news:XnsA5D592BED583howdtdhstyo@ 46.165.242.75:

    That piece also notes that there's an overrepresentation of engineers
    among Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, for what it's worth.

    In my college days there was quite a stir when an EE professor turned out to be a Holocaust denier. Almost forty years on, he's still there:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Butz

    A professor I had for my CS degree got arrested on terrorism charges. He disappeared in a hurry.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian

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