The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Academic piracy here. Social science: http://sites.rutgers.edu/lee-jussim/ Substack: http://unsafescience.substack.com Nothing here represents Rutgers.
"the biggest benefit of a paid subscription is that you [help]...resist the extremist turn of academia and maintain islands of integrity in a sea of academic political corruption." How? I've dedicated the $ to projects, not my pockets. unsafescience.substack.com/p/paid-subscri…
Signed this one, too. So can you. The link to do so is in the thread.
1/ NEW: Announcing the Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science Just released at @chronicle Signatories span the range from anti-Trump liberals (i.e. @sapinker @clairlemon) to conservative reformers (i.e. @realchrisrufo @GadSaad) A new intellectual movement
Former NIH Director Francis Collins is complaining about "mixing politics and science." This is the same man who secretly called for public "devastating takedowns" of scientists (one now the NIH Director) who dared disagree with him. A rank hypocrite of the highest order.
“When you mix politics and science, you just get politics,” former NIH director Dr Francis Collins tells me. He says the casting of doubt on vaccine efficacy by RFK Jr and others is “truly heartbreaking and dangerous. Look what’s happening right now in our country with measles.”
Bullseye.
It would be nice if all those worried about the politicization of science said something when these shenanigans were underway.
Camille Paglia, in 2018!!!
"Camille Paglia: The silence of the academic establishment about the corruption of Western universities by postmodernism and post-structuralism has been an absolute disgrace." quillette.com/2018/11/10/cam…
Omar is a Harvard Prof. And just wrote a clear, evidence-packed post. Calls for academia to reform itself are bankrupt. Here is the opening: "Step back, and imagine an analogy: your local police department has a bunch of problems with its professionalism, and there is tons of…
Imagine your local police department has a bunch of problems with its professionalism, and there is tons of evidence of this. Now ask yourself this hypothetical question: Is the department more likely to reform internally without external accountability, or with external…
Contra the academics howling about Trump's "tyranny"...
Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement reached between the Federal government and @Columbia is an excellent template for agreements with other institutions including @Harvard. First, academic freedom is preserved as the University maintains academic autonomy.…
Who among us doesn't sense an eeriness the scientific community is dealing with? That there are groups dedicated to subvert scientific social progress? Check out the details here 👇. Simply, balanced and inspiring, Lee Jussim style! 😎🤘
New Post. Link in reply. "I also signed on because I have seen no evidence that academia will reform itself to address the problems resulting from its overt politicization and evolution into an engine for the advancement of progressive values, policies, and worldviews."
New Post. Link in reply. "I also signed on because I have seen no evidence that academia will reform itself to address the problems resulting from its overt politicization and evolution into an engine for the advancement of progressive values, policies, and worldviews."
This is emblematic of why people hate academia. Luke killing it here. A nice companion piece to my recent defense of the Manhattan Institute Statement, even though it does not address that at all. Instead, Luke's piece complements my essay, because it is a peak under the hood…
My new Substack, The Apologetic Professor, has officially been launched! The first article is “When Science Decides the Scientific Method Is Racist: A Social Psychology Case Study.” In it, I evaluate the most recent PSPB editorial statement. theapologeticprofessor.substack.com/p/when-science… Forthcoming…
The Buckingham Conference was terrific and Luke nails it here.
I'm proud to be one of the signatories on this Manifesto. The Buckingham conference was wild in the good sense of the word: Open debate, say-anything discussion, and people on all sides of issues coming together to find the truth. You know, the way academia should be.
I wasn't asked to sign the Manhattan Statement, and I probably wouldn't have signed. I'm generally pretty allergic to signing petitions. A friend of mine once said his mantra was "I only sign petitions that I would sign if I were the only signatory." I like that and I've taken…
New Post. Link in reply. "I also signed on because I have seen no evidence that academia will reform itself to address the problems resulting from its overt politicization and evolution into an engine for the advancement of progressive values, policies, and worldviews."
Some philosopher recently posted a defense of Alex Byrne against the open letter denouncing him, in which he likens the open letter to "an argument from cooties" (not a direct quote). Can't find it. Can you? @BrandonWarmke @byrne_a @rbnmckenna86 @HSJSpeaks ???
this is a riot. maybe i'll send one to my irb.
Lawyers are expensive, but *looking* like you have a lawyer is free. Today, I'm happy to announce my latest project, Heavyweight! Heavyweight lets you take any complaint you have, and make it look like a scary legal document without ever actually claiming to be from a lawyer.
Just tw'd this article, but the tw makes a different point. Figure below shows actual ideas/claims made/promoted/advanced in academia over the last few years w/minimal pushback from sane academics. Do you really wonder why so many want to defund and even destroy us?
With a few exceptions -- @Docstockk, @aytchellesse, @byrne_a -- philosophers continue to affect a bizarre neutrality over whether there are male women. Is it any surprise this cues the public into writing off academia generally? Me and @d_kodsi in TPM philosophersmag.com/philosophical-…
Same for DEI.
"Trans activists’ central philosophical arguments were always underpowered by ordinary methodological standards ... their popularization was aided and abetted by special pleading, political bullying and plain old cowardice." philosophersmag.com/philosophical-…
People have been posting a slew of very amusing memes using these data in the replies to this tweet, below.
Terrific pair of studies find: 1. Democrats' beliefs cluster tightly around one extreme end 2. Republicans' beliefs are far more variable. Open access. X axis is extremity of belief. Not really a Y-axis. What is shown is the network of beliefs (how each belief is connected to…
Terrific pair of studies find: 1. Democrats' beliefs cluster tightly around one extreme end 2. Republicans' beliefs are far more variable. Open access. X axis is extremity of belief. Not really a Y-axis. What is shown is the network of beliefs (how each belief is connected to…
Random cat post about a cat acting very random. ID evenK where the hell that is in my house.
