A professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science has filed a lawsuit against the medical school after he was disciplined for telling media outlets his assessment of biological men participating in women’s sports as trans athletes, and plasma treatments for COVID-19.
Dr. Michael J. Joyner, M.D., an anesthesiology professor, filed the lawsuit Monday in a Minnesota state court in Olmsted County against the Mayo Clinic, Mayo’s College of Medicine and Science, Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, and Dr. Carlos B. Mantilla, according to InsideHigherEd.com.
The outlet reported Dr. Farrugia is Mayo Clinic’s president and chief executive officer. Dr. Mantilla is the chair of the anesthesiology and perioperative medicine department who threatened Dr. Joyner’s job in a letter that thrice brought up Dr. Joyner’s use of “idiomatic” language.
In his lawsuit, Joyner said, Mayo “ignored its promise of free expression and academic freedom for faculty” when it sought to confine the doctor in public interviews to “prescribed messaging,” according to The Star Tribune.
“Free speech and academic freedom do not become less important because of public disagreement or debate,” Joyner’s 73-page complaint said. “To the contrary, it is precisely during times of intense disagreement that unbiased research and expert opinions of
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