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......
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......