【美國真相】紐約大學一教授在課堂上鼓吹“口罩無用論”_風聞

以下圖文來自美媒NBCNEWYORK的報道（9/23）：

一名紐約大學的學生在為她上課的教授“在課堂上花了整節課的時間告訴學生戴着口罩並不能阻止COVID-19的傳播”後在社交媒體上拉響警報。

朱莉婭·傑克遜（Julia Jackson）週日在幾條推文中説，紐約大學傳播學教授馬克·克里斯潘·米勒（Mark Crispin Miller）正在利用其職權來認證極右翼和陰謀網站，並加劇對醫療專業人員的懷疑，並呼籲解僱米勒。

 米勒在論述中援引科學研究説：口罩在阻止類似流感的呼吸道疾病的傳播方面並不有效。傑克遜説，他還鏈接到許多極右翼和陰謀網站。

作為回應，米勒稱傑克遜的推文“惡毒”，並説他告訴學生們不要忽視該州和學校的口罩強制令。他在“大眾説服和宣傳”課程中捍衞了這些教義，並説在全球範圍內佩戴口罩是“左派”和主流媒體的宣傳。

米勒認為，他想敦促學生自己思考和研究證據，而不是僅僅屈服於權威。他説：“無論紐約大學的官方政策還是紐約州的政策，這都是我作為老師的知識和公民義務。期望學生遵守學校的規定是一回事，但是敦促學生不要考慮這是另一回事。”在週一的博客文章中寫道。

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.