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Harrit sues paper for defamation

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Page 7, paragraph 3, the judge appears to say, "Neils Harrit is even offensive in the press".
 
I can't download this. Can someone (Orphia maybe) pull out some relevant parts and post them here?
 
This is page 7:

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You know the joke... If you speak three languages you're trilingual, if you speak two languages you're bilingual, if you speak one languiage you're American. Let me try again orphia, can you print out in the only language I know any highlights of this case? I would put this through google translate but it's a photo, not copyable.
 
Orphia Nay said:
Thanks!

Page 7, paragraph 3, the judge appears to say, "Neils Harrit is even offensive in the press".
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The Danish word "offensiv" means to be an attacker or aggressor. Apparently, Harrit has been quoted calling a colleague something similar to a retard in a previous article.

Also worth noting that Harrit is not a real Professor, according to this document, but "Lektor", which seems to translate into "Assistant Professor".
 
AsbjornAndersen said:
The Danish word "offensiv" means to be an attacker or aggressor. Apparently, Harrit has been quoted calling a colleague something similar to a retard in a previous article.

Also worth noting that Harrit is not a real Professor, according to this document, but "Lektor", which seems to translate into "Assistant Professor".
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Hannibal Lektor? :duck:

Seriously, though, in American universities, a "lecturer" (literal translation) ranks even lower than an assistant professor.
 
What is Harrit's CV? This should be on record... no? Is he a professor? In what study? Or retired? etc. He's not a physicist or an engineer but I've seen him go on about the physics of what happened as if he was an authority.
 
JSanderO said:
What is Harrit's CV? This should be on record... no? Is he a professor? In what study? Or retired? etc. He's not a physicist or an engineer but I've seen him go on about the physics of what happened as if he was an authority.
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It gets muddy... The official homepage for Copenhagen University lists him as "Professor Emeritus" but also "Lektor" elsewhere. One of the major newspapers calls him "Lektor" as well. The court room paper calls him Retired "Lektor".

Nielsharrit.org (which is made by truthers) calls him Doctor.

Could it be that he has a doctorate but is/was only employed as an Associate Professor?
 
He's a 'Licentiate', a degree that was replaced by the Ph.D. around 1990, in chemistry.
 
KDLarsen said:
He's a 'Licentiate', a degree that was replaced by the Ph.D. around 1990, in chemistry.
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[OT]Wasn't the Licenciate replaced by the Master? I have an old portuguese Licenciatura, and the equivalent is a Master. The same with the german Diplom.[/OT]
 
Orphia Nay said:
Thanks!

Page 7, paragraph 3, the judge appears to say, "Neils Harrit is even offensive in the press".
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Actually, the phrase "Nielss Harrit er selv offensiv i pressen" would mean something like "Nielss Harrit is himself active in the press (media)". "Offensiv" in Danish means something like "on the offense" or "active", rather that "offensive" as in "insulting".
 
Hawk one said:
Actually, the phrase "Nielss Harrit er selv offensiv i pressen" would mean something like "Nielss Harrit is himself active in the press (media)". "Offensiv" in Danish means something like "on the offense" or "active", rather that "offensive" as in "insulting".
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Correct, in the context it is written in the judgment, it's about how active Harriet himself is in the press, not that he writes or says anything offensive. Harrit is actually very "trained" and always keeps his public appearances at a sober level, although often completely nuts.

Harrit is an associated professor, in Danish that is not a professor, but a Lektor. A professor is the highest "rank" at Danish Universities, "lektor" is second, followed by "adjunkt".

The language spoken at Danish Universities is of course Danish, but quite often English is even more used than Danish and the homepages of the universities are also written in both Danish and English. That is why Harrit is listed as both a professor (English) and as a lektor (Danish)
 
Hawk one said:
Actually, the phrase "Nielss Harrit er selv offensiv i pressen" would mean something like "Nielss Harrit is himself active in the press (media)". "Offensiv" in Danish means something like "on the offense" or "active", rather that "offensive" as in "insulting".
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Thank you!

What was the judge's point there?
 
KDLarsen said:
Go figure, Harrit has appealed the decision to the High court. Apparenly he desperately want to pay more than $3000 in court costs... :rolleyes:
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Anyway if he wins he will claim that the court supports his theory and if he loses he will say that the court is part of complot. ;)
 
Orphia Nay said:
Thank you!

What was the judge's point there?
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There is a difference in Denmark between publicly promoting your opinions/beliefs or keeping them to yourself.

If you keep your opinions/beliefs to yourself, you should also expect that no one in the media attacks, ridicule or in other ways makes references to you and your Opionions/beliefs.

On the other hand, which is the case here, Harrit must tolerate that others also have a public opinion on his ideas and beliefs, since Harrit is actively promoting them in public.

The judge further states that calling Harrit nuts is the journalists own opinion and as a comment to another article, and the journalist's freedom of speech is more important than Harrits feelings.
 
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