Separating the researcher from the activist or drowning the researcher in the activist

It was necessary to separate the man from the work; will it be necessary to separate the researcher from the professor, and the professor from the citizen who harangues students and supports the occupation of universities?

For some professors, academic work produced in the calm of the written word and under the gaze of peers must be radically separated from the public actions of these same researchers. This first assertion already seems fragile if we consider that the actions of any responsible person - whether a scientist or not - are based on knowledge, reading and exchanges, and not simply on affects and warlike commands beyond all reflection.

In Switzerland, as elsewhere, propalestinian students and activists have taken over university buildings, for example in Lausanne, Geneva and Zurich. These buildings are intended for research