June 27, 2022
MTC: Luxury Guilt Trip: Harvard Discovers Slavery
John Staddon
Are modern African Americans worse off for slavery? Harvard was directly complicit in America’s system of racial bondage from the College’s earliest days in the 17th century until slavery in Mass......
August 23, 2021
Academic Questions: The Diversity Dilemma
John Staddon
Racial and ethnic diversity can contribute to greater intellectual diversity, but there is no guarantee especially if one group is easily offended.
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?
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......
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.
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.
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.
