Nit.
"I can now tell my students that it is safe to do research without being monitored," he [a professor] said. "With that hanging in the air like before, I couldn't say that to them."
Even given this was a hoax, I don't know that I'd go as far as the quoted prof in my conclusion.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell