Paul Cullen, 60, will remain professor of clinical chemistry at Münster University, Germany. This decision was taken by the medical faculty on Friday.
The controversial "General Students' Committee of the University of Münster" had previously demanded that Cullen be stripped of his professorship for speaking out against abortion and against the use of insufficiently tested Covid-19 vaccines. Cullen is Irish and a Catholic.
The medical faculty stated that freedom of expression was [allegedly] constitutive of a free democratic order. For the faculty it is not acceptable to differentiate between "good" and "bad" opinions or between balanced and unbalanced arguments when determining the sphere of the democratic order.
A prerequisite for the withdrawal of a professorship would have been a scientific misconduct, for example a substantial, negligent or intentional misrepresentation of scientific findings. But this was not the case.
Speaking to Gloria.tv, Cullen explained that he was "not …More