Penn Professor says his views may cost him his job

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Posted on Fri, Feb. 11, 2005

Francisco Gil-White, an assistant professor in Penn's psychology department, has called the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks "an inside job." He has written articles alleging that NATO framed Slobodan Milosevic. He has tried to convince his colleagues that the United States is a secret enemy of Israel.

And he says he is about to lose his job for holding - and broadcasting - those views.

His problems at Penn began, Gil-White said, when he tried to present his ideas to colleagues at the university's Solomon Asch Center For Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict.

"I was like, 'Hey, look, we've been wrong about Yugoslavia. We have to study this. We got it wrong,' " Gil-White said. "Everybody immediately started telling me this was very bad stuff. That it was going to be bad for my career. The more I pressed, the more reluctant they seemed."

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