Thousands of people have registered for a remote lecture by a geophysicist at Princeton University after the MIT canceled it due to pressure from 'woke' students because the professor argued that academic evaluations should be based on merit, not racial 'equity'.

University of Chicago professor Dorian Abbot was denied the opportunity to give the prestigious Carlson Lecture, which is devoted to 'new results in climate science' and hosted by MIT's Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

But Princeton University decided to host Abbot's lecture via Zoom on October 21 - the day it was scheduled to be given at the MIT. 

Princeton professor Robert P. George, who has publicly backed Abbot since his lecture was 'shockingly and shamefully canceled', said the university has since had to expand the Zoom quota for the lecture as thousands of people have registered. 

Professor George said: 'I'm delighted to report that we've expanded the Zoom quota for Dr Dorian Abbot's Princeton lecture - the one shockingly and shamefully canceled by MIT - and literally thousands of people have registered.' 

It comes after Professor Abbot wrote on October 5 on Bari Weiss' Substack newsletter: 'I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter.