"From the Simon and Garfunkel song The Boxer, “Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.” From experience..."  Well with respect to your experience, you don't have to even go there.  Just look at the comments about this man's column!  Whoa!  Talk about disregarding "the rest." You'd think the guy was the Anti-Christ!  Knee-jerk, knee-jerk all over these pages:  "the professor is suggesting an end to freedom of speech if the speech is objectionable." And, ".."liberals" are openly renouncing rationality, freedom of thought and evidence based discussion." (Well, maybe SOME liberals--such as our Minister of Science for example...but EVERY liberal?) Or, how about this: Professor Kingwell is apparently a student of George Orwell."  Ohhh, nasty, nasty.  

This column reflects a whole basket of thoughts and beliefs (and in one instance, the writer's even criticized for that!).  Most commenters are appear ready to burn the whole thing...