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Science 11 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5481, pp. 846 - 847
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5481.846b
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM:
Political Scientist Becomes Cause Célèbre

Robert Koenig

BERN--On 11 May, a criminal court in Vienna found one of Austria's most prominent political scientists, Anton Pelinka, guilty of defaming former Freedom Party leader Jörg Haider. Haider, an outspoken populist who has made questionable comments about Nazism, accused Pelinka of defaming him for asserting in an interview on Italian television in May 1999 that some Haider statements had "trivialized" Nazism. In the 3 months since the judgment, an array of academic and human rights groups have rushed to Pelinka's defense.

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