"Nevertheless, the article does not square with the mission of universities to produce and transmit valid knowledge."

In this post-truth period, in which falsities have become alternative facts in some circles, universities have a particular duty to protect their status as institutions that produce valid knowledge.

They have become institutions trusted to discriminate between knowledge worthy of attention and knowledge that warrants various doses of caution

From the U of T course list :  : WGS440H1 Postcolonial Cyborgs for Planetary Futures:  Speculative Fiction Feminisms
Drawing together film, fiction and theory, this course invites students to explore ways of imagining other worlds. From afro-futurism to planetary humanism, from cyborgs to hauntings, from science fiction fantasies to the politics of aliens, the course examines and produces feminist, postcolonial, anti-racist, and queer visions of other worlds.

ahhh, yah, professor...validation indeed