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......
April 5, 2023
MTC: Social Scientism
John Staddon
How social science has become social commentary It is well known that social science—psychology, sociology, and economics—has devolved into more than one hundred sub-specialties. Less well known is t......
March 27, 2023
MTC: The Corruption of Science by Social Justice
John Staddon
Western civilization depends on science, but science, especially social science, is now under threat. Until WWII, science was mostly a vocation. Scientists were motivated by curiosity and the search......
January 10, 2023
Academic Questions: Stratification Economics: How Social Science Fails
John Staddon
In violation of the most basic tenets of social science, the proposed sub field of “Stratification Economics” seeks to limit, rather than expand, our understanding of income variation betw......
January 10, 2023
Academic Questions: Decolonizing Science
J. Scott Turner
It is far from clear that Western science has suppressed or damaged “indigenous knowledge,” as a recent editorial in Nature suggests. But there is an important story to tell about science,......
December 27, 2022
MTC: Diversity Is a Trojan Horse
John Staddon
How ‘Identity Science’ Canceled an Editor The U.S. Supreme Court, in its 1978 Bakke decision, shoehorned racial preferences into legality by identifying (racial and ethnic) diversity as an intrinsic......
December 7, 2022
MTC: Taking David Horowitz Seriously
John Staddon
The Academic Bill of Rights revisited David Horowitz is a controversial fellow. Born into a communist family in New York and involved early on with the Black Panthers, he remained on the Left until h......
December 14, 2022
MTC: The Sign in Lee Jussim’s Window
David Randall
The psychologists are burning another witch. A mob of professors, graduate students, and miscellaneous luftmenschen denounced Klaus Fiedler, the editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, for “r......
November 10, 2022
MTC: Has The Chronicle of Higher Education Become an Organ of the Democratic Party?
John Staddon
The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) remains steadfast in its support of social justice and liberal politics. In a typical op-ed entitled “The Right-Wing Attempt to Control Higher Ed: Demolishing i......