As Professor Hicks asserts, I may well be audacious, but my audacity has no bearing on the facts of the letter to which Professor Hicks was responding in the matter of the negative relationship between faculty unionization and rankings of institutional quality. The point of my reference to tobacco use and health outcomes was to provide a compelling illustration of the fundamentally incorrect reasoning used to attack the OUCIF report by putting that reasoning in a more obvious and, for purposes of the present argument, neutral context. Professor Hicks responds that the OUCIF report is flawed because it is unscientific and therefore properly attacked. I invite you to evaluate Professor Hicks' specific criticisms in light of the actual content of the OUCIF report. You can review the report along with other OUCIF statements on faculty unionization at http://oufacultyindependence.blogspot.com, and arrive at your own judgments.
Tom Daniels is a professor of communication studies
and a member of OUCIF.
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