May 2, 2018
Article: Comment on The Irreproducibility Crisis: John Staddon
John Staddon comments on The Irreproducibility Crisis.
May 21, 2024
MTC: Diversity be Damned!
John Staddon
"If critics have a problem with the goal of diversity, they should say so," writes law professor Stacy Hawkins in a vigorous counterattack against critics of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) m......
April 24, 2024
Academic Questions: The Issue at a Glance
Seth Forman
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by J. Scott Turner, Nathalie Gontier, Amelia Lewis, James A. Shapiro, and others.
April 24, 2024
Academic Questions: 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......
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 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.
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......