A widely-referenced 2024 study that predicted massive global economic damages due to climate change has now been retracted, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.
Climate Doomsday Prophecy Peddled By Academia Retracted In Disgrace
Climate Doomsday Prophecy Peddled By Academia Retracted In Disgrace
07 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, climate change, econometerics, economics of climate change, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: academic bias, climate activists
An ideologically-based and misleading critique of how modern genetics is taught
11 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: academic bias, Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Over at sapiens.org, an anthropology magazine, author Elaine Guevara (a lecturer in evolutionary anthropology at Duke) takes modern genetics education to task. Making a number of assertions about what students from high school to college learn in their genetics courses, Guevara claims that this type of education imparts “zombie ideas”: outdated but perpetually revived notions […]
An ideologically-based and misleading critique of how modern genetics is taught
Bakersfield College Agrees to $2.4 Million Settlement in Free Speech Case
02 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: academic bias, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Last year, we discussed the free speech case of Matthew Garrett, formerly a tenured history professor at Bakersfield College who was investigated and disciplined after he questioned the use of grant money to fund social justice initiatives. Bakersfield College has one of the worst records on free speech in higher education and has been repeatedly […]
Bakersfield College Agrees to $2.4 Million Settlement in Free Speech Case
Climate: The Movie
22 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, movies, politics - USA Tags: academic bias, climate alarmism
Martin Durkin’s Climate:The Movie is now released: Climate The Movie from Martin Durkin on Vimeo. This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, […]
Climate: The Movie
Bari Weiss interviews Roland Fryer
22 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: academic bias, crime and punishment, free speech, law and order, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
A lot of readers and heterodox colleagues have sent me this link to Bari Weiss’s interview with Harvard economics professor Roland G. Fryer, Jr., often accompanied by big encomiums. Despite my unwillingness to watch long videos, I did watch all 77 minutes of it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t mesmerized, or even much interested. There are interesting […]
Bari Weiss interviews Roland Fryer
There are republican anthropologists!
13 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - USA Tags: academic bias
The 1619 Project’s Pulitzer | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn Show]
09 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: academic bias, media bias, political correctness, regressive left
Steven Pinker: The Political Correct Mob and Academia
30 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: academic bias, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The bias of economists
11 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: academic bias
Economics v. Sociology
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of education Tags: academic bias
The academic bias that dare not speak its name
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: academic bias
LSE Sociology: Are Sociologists Trying to Change the World?
27 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: academic bias, The fatal conceit
Did the left ever believe in academic freedom?
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: academic bias, child poverty, family poverty, social insurance
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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