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The Thorntonbank offshore windpark perfectly shows the earth curvature.
14 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
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#GMOs
14 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, health economics Tags: anti-GMOs movement
Colin Wright on sex and its distortion by the American Psychiatric Association
13 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Reader Bryan sent me a link to the tweets by Colin Wright below (the first is most important) which is about the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s) new book on Gender Affirming Psychiatric Care. (For some reason I can’t download it.) The APA is the premier association of American psychiatrists, so this will carry a lot […]
Colin Wright on sex and its distortion by the American Psychiatric Association
Science-Based Medicine goes down the drain
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Lordy, how many of us used to love the Science-Based Medicine (SBM) site? I did! It was the go-to place for enjoying the debunking of medical quackery and the scrutiny of dubious medical claims. Started in 2008 by Steve Novella and David Gorski (“Orac”), SBM is affiliated with the Society for Science-Based Medicine. Sadly, it’s now […]
Science-Based Medicine goes down the drain
The Sullivan Signal: Harvard’s Failure to Educate and the Abandonment of Principle
06 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, rule of law
The current Harvard disaster was clearly signaled by earlier events, most notably the 2019 firing of Dean Ronald Sullivan. Sullivan is a noted criminal defense attorney; he was the director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and he is the Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, he […]
The Sullivan Signal: Harvard’s Failure to Educate and the Abandonment of Principle
Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement
05 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
This requirement, approved by the Academic Senate, is a clear example of the university’s shift from fostering critical thinking to promoting a singular ideological agenda. The post Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement
Harvard President Claudine Gay to resign
03 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, war against terror
Breaking nooz, and from the Harvard Crimson. The revelations of plagiarism, and accusations of withholding/manipulating data, apparently rendered her ineffective as President. And her status as Harvard’s first black woman President didn’t save her. I heard rumors that she refused to resign, and had procured a lawyer and would sue, but those apparently weren’t true. […]
Harvard President Claudine Gay to resign
A starting thought
01 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
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Bari Weiss on why DEI must be dismantled
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
In this 20-minute video, Bari Weiss makes two points. First, the testimony of the MIT, Harvard, and Penn Presidents before a House committee was antisemitic and reprehensible, and reflects a widespread lack of “moral leadership” in universities. Second, this moral leadership requires the elimination of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education. Weiss […]
Bari Weiss on why DEI must be dismantled
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: Australia, economics of languages
A dearth of science books on the “Year’s Best” list
27 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
I’m not going after the NYT here, as this observation may simply reflect a dearth of science books published in 2023. However, the paper’s list of 100 best books of the year (click below), divided into 50 fiction books and 50 nonfiction books, has only a single book that I’d classify as “a science book”: […]
A dearth of science books on the “Year’s Best” list
Censorship in science: a compilation of references
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
If you’re interested in STEM subjects, it’s salubrious to follow the Heterodox STEM Substack site, where you’ll see takes on science that are sufficiently heterodox that they’d be hard to publish in regular journals. Also, there are useful summaries of the literature, including as this one on scientific censorship published today by Anna Krylov and […]
Censorship in science: a compilation of references
Jon Haidt on the rise of antisemitism on campus
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
On his Substack site “After Babel,” social psychologist Jon Haidt, most of you know of, explains the rapid rise of antisemitism on American campuses. The piece is long and a bit repetitious, but well worth reading of a Christmas Eve. Click to read: I’ll just summarize his thesis and give some quotes. First, the problem: […]
Jon Haidt on the rise of antisemitism on campus
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists denies the sex binary in humans (on ideological grounds, of course)
24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
The other day I discussed how several anthropologists wrote a letter supporting the decision of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA) to cancel a panel on sex (“Let’s talk about sex, baby: why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology”) at their annual meeting. Appaerntly they objected to…
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists denies the sex binary in humans (on ideological grounds, of course)
GRAHAM ADAMS: Fear stalks Auckland University campus!
20 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
‘Progressive’ academics all aquiver before Siouxsie Wiles decision. Graham Adams writes – Last week, the NZ Herald published a very curious article about an “unsafe workplace”. You might have expected it to be about volunteer firefighters, or police dog handlers, or perhaps even nurses at the front line of hospital emergency departments, where unruly patients […]
GRAHAM ADAMS: Fear stalks Auckland University campus!
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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