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Embattled Professor to Leave Brigham Young
Inside Higher Ed reports today that Professor Steven Jones—whom BYU stripped of his teaching duties because of his view that 9/11 was orchestrated by the United States—has reached an agreement with the university under which he is “retiring from his job as a physics instructor” at BYU.
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