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Biologist Jerry Coyne encounters the New Infantilism

It's a central tenet of the New Infantilism that if a student says something in public, only other students can comment critically.   If a professor criticizes a student's public words or deeds, that is "bullying."  The well-known evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne describes his encounter with the New Infantilism.

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