Malaysian academic Dr Solehah Yaacob, who drew public scrutiny over claims that ancient Malays could fly and had taught the Chinese flying kung fu, is no longer associated with the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).Dr Solehah is challenging her termination and plans to take IIUM to the Industrial Court, accusing the university of acting unprofessionally in its decision, Free Malaysia...
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Not sure about Malaysia, but in a lot of countries once you get tenure you can just start saying crazy shit, especially when it’s completely unrelated to your area of expertise…

    Dr Solehah, an Arabic language and linguistics scholar,

    Especially with language, it’s pretty easy to have a very very narrow range of education. Loads of people move to another country and then become “experts” on their native language.