May 2, 2018
Article: Comment on The Irreproducibility Crisis: John Staddon
John Staddon comments on The Irreproducibility Crisis.
January 18, 2024
MTC: Equity is Not Science
John Staddon
Suppose I were to tell you that in a North Carolina county, neighborhoods with a “lower percentage of White individuals … lower economic and racial spatial advantage, and higher area deprivation” and......
January 9, 2024
MTC: Early Warnings Were Ignored: DEI Trainings and Social Pressure
John Staddon
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America — Alexis de Tocqueville From 1991 to 1994, at Duke University, I edited a publication cal......
September 27, 2023
MTC: Actions Matter: The IAT's Fallacious Arguments
John Staddon
Mahzarin Banaji and Frank Dobbin, a Harvard psychologist and sociologist, explain in a recent Wall Street Journal article, “Why DEI Training Doesn’t Work—and How to Fix It.” The article is based on s......
July 25, 2023
MTC: Minding the Sciences — DEI Takes the NIH
John Staddon
Affirmative-action peer review The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has supported extramural biomedical research since the end of WWII. This year, the program spent close to $40 billion. The basic......
July 17, 2023
Academic Questions: Diverse Identities Are Irrelevant to Science
John Staddon
Duke Psychologist John Staddon says there is little evidence that demographic diversity strengthens scientific research.
June 20, 2023
MTC: Science is Rotting from the Top
John Staddon
Science leadership has forgotten … science The texts for today are from Dr. Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief of Science from 2013–2016 and current president of the National Academy of Sciences. First,......
May 25, 2023
MTC: DEI is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
John Staddon
A law school dean tries to square the circle The ruckus at Stanford Law School surrounding the March 9 shout-down of Judge Kyle Duncan has abated. But we can learn much from four documents that have......
May 2, 2023
MTC: WikiBias: How Wikipedia erases “fringe theories” and enforces conformity
John Staddon
Wikipedia is probably the most widely used encyclopedia in the world. If you’re looking for facts, it is pretty reliable. For example, if you want to compare the number of traffic roundabouts per capi......