August 23, 2021

Academic Questions: The Devolution of Psychological Science: Memes, Culture, and Systemic Racism

John Staddon

What does a successful model of social science look like, and how far have the social sciences strayed from that model?

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August 23, 2021

Academic Questions: Issue at a Glance

Volume 34, Issue 3, at a glance.

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July 30, 2021

MTC: The Multiversity and its Discontents: The Evolution of a Fatal Flaw

John Staddon

A well-known podcaster has the custom of going “off the grid” for a month each summer, to gain some perspective. I can beat that: I have been retired from academic teaching and research for nearly 14......

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June 7, 2021

Academic Questions: Can Science be Saved?

John E. Staddon

A review essay of "Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth" by Stuart Ritchie.

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June 7, 2021

Academic Questions: The Behaviorist Plot

John E. Staddon

If historians of science present a distorted picture, they imperil the future of science, a future on which modern civilization depends.

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April 30, 2021

Article: Cancel Culture in the Sciences: A Case Study

John E. Staddon

A reproduction of an email exchange between Professors John Staddon and Jonathon D. Crystal, published to provide a succinct example of how a cancellation occurs in real time.

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April 20, 2021

Academic Questions: Fact vs. Truth?

Carol Iannone

Editor's Introduction to Volume 34, Issue 2.

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April 20, 2021

Academic Questions: The Issue at a Glance

The Issue at a Glance, Volume 34, Issue 2.

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February 25, 2021

Academic Questions: The Issue at a Glance

The Issue at a Glance, Volume 34, Issue 1.

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February 25, 2021

Academic Questions: History of Science: Politicizing a Discipline

John E. Staddon

In the first article of our feature critiquing the experts, psychobiologist John Staddon comes to a troubling conclusion. While science earns credibility by submitting evidence to numerous universally......

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