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Category Archives: Academia
The Replication Crisis
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would interpret the replication crisis less as a sudden discovery that many social-science findings are “false,” and more as a structural shift in the alliance incentives that govern what kinds of claims get produced, rewarded, and … Continue reading
NYT: Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
Given that anything that violates one’s hero system is experienced as harm, the category of “harm” governing academic research must be rife with abuse that advances one hero system over another. Mike McIntire writes for the New York Times: Genetic … Continue reading
LAT: College women far outnumber men in law, medical, vet schools
The Los Angeles Times reports: Officials from associations of graduate and professional schools who are trying to recruit more men said the gender shift can be self-perpetuating. Men may be put off by what they see as the “feminization” of … Continue reading
Fox News: 40-year Harvard professor pens scathing piece on school’s ‘exclusion of white males,’ anti-Western trends
Fox reports: James Hankins said admissions committee told him accepting White male applicant was ‘not happening this year’ A history professor who taught at Harvard University for 40 years has left the Ivy League for greener pastures, penning a biting … Continue reading
Challenges To Academic Freedom
Stephen Turner writes in this 2021 book: The present legal system produces an unequal conflict between academic freedom, which has only the most fragile and indirect legal basis, and employment law. The latter is backed by administrative law, which, in … Continue reading
The Star Chamber of Stanford: On the Secret Trial and Invisible Persecution of a Stanford Law Fellow by Rony Guldmann
I asked AI: Please review, critique, analyze and assess for credibility this 2022 book by attorney-philosopher Rony Guldmann — The Star Chamber of Stanford. The antagonists in the book are the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried — Barbara Fried and Joseph … Continue reading
Beliefs Are Like Possessions
When people most need to feel special, they are most likely to adopt special beliefs such as Holocaust denial or 9-11 truthism. Childless people are more likely to adopt exciting beliefs because their ordinary life does not provide sufficient excitement. … Continue reading
Nathan Cofnas: ‘Podcast Bros and Brain Rot: The only thing worse than an expert is a non-expert’
One of the great things about psychotherapy is that you can get insights that end your petty obsessions. For example, after a year of therapy, in 1999, my therapist told me that the reason I was obsessed with writing about … Continue reading
Trump vs the Universities
I ask Grok: “Paint for me the most intense fears suffered currently by the leaders of America’s elite universities as they battle Trump. What are the keenest humiliations they are most eager to avoid?” Grok says: The leaders of America’s … Continue reading
Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation (1991)
Susanne Klingenstein wrote: Being a transnational philologist was for [Leo] Wiener‘s mind what being a farmer was for his body: it eased tension. And it rooted the self — in the soil and in humanity… He did not belong [at … Continue reading