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April 24, 2024

Truth as a Consensus of Experts

John Staddon

John Staddon reviews Jonathan Rauch’s The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth and concludes that Rauch’s admirable effort falls short in its attempt to reconcile defere......

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July 17, 2023

Diverse Identities Are Irrelevant to Science

John Staddon

Duke Psychologist John Staddon says there is little evidence that demographic diversity strengthens scientific research.

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January 10, 2023

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......

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