World-famous ethicist Thomas Pogge has crossed the line and violated professional standards, the former chair of the Yale University philosophy department said. A majority of Pogge's colleagues in the Yale philosophy department put their name on it, and the total number of academics signing the letter now tops 1,000. Pogge was accused of sexual harassment at Yale in 2010 and when he was a professor at Columbia University in the 1990s. French social scientist Dan Sperber declined an invitation to take part in a conference that Pogge is helping organize for spring 2017. In his response to the invitation from an Italian academic, Sperber called Pogge's involvement in the conference "just sick."

Source: Huffington Post June 28, 2016 22:25 UTC