Dental School Blogger Punishment Reduced

John McAdams writes "When a Marquette University Dental School student blogger made some nasty comments about an (unnamed) professor and (unnamed) classmates on his personal blog, the Dental School administration imposed a draconian punishment on him. He was to be suspended from school for a year, lose a prestigious scholarship, and seek counseling for supposed "behavioral problems." The case received wide attention, starting with local talk radio, the local daily paper and reverberated through the blogsphere. Dental School Dean William Lobb, considering the case on appeal, has now reduced the student's punishment. The student now faces probation rather than suspension, will be allowed to keep his scholarship, and will not have to seek counseling. He will have to do 100 hours of community service, and apologize for the blog posts. While this is certainly good news for the student, it leaves open the question of how much freedom Marquette Dental School students have in posting on their personal, non-university connected blogs."

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Dental conspiracy

[argoff]

Is it just me, or does it seem that some of these schools teach in a way that is designed to drive up revenue even if it's against the patients best interest. Like pinhole cavities that "require" drilling filling, when in truth they probably could be filled in with an epoxy without harm. Or like child-teeth cavities, that would probably be fine if you just waited for the tooth to fall out, but the dentist insists that it must be fully drilled and crowned. Or like one time a dentist "tested" to see if my tooth was decaying by dipping a swab in liquid nitrogen and holding it on my tooth untill I felt pain. Funny thing is though, I could have sworn that did something to my tooth that caused it to go bad a month later. Or another case where my wife had a tooth that hadn't grown in yet, but the dentist picked at the sensitive gums arround it to see if it was infected or contaminated with dirt. I'll be damned - if that wasn't what caused it to become contaminated or infected a week later. One time when I was 9, a dentist scraped some gunk off my tooth held it in front of my face and said this has enough bacteria to kill a person if I pricked you - I took it to mean, "let me do as many procedures on your teeth as I want and don't complain to your mom or I'm going to murder you".

Perhaps these schools are this way, because they are ran by those kinds of people.

Re:a sucker born every minute

[quokkapox]

So I take it you don't want to come work for us on our Web 2.0 project? It's been fun, g'night...