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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September 21, 2020

MTC: The Cultural Revolution: Coming to a Campus Near You

John Staddon

Higher education has begun a transformation similar to the Chinese “Cultural Revolution” of 1966. This claim may sound extreme, but look at the similarities for yourself. Like the Cultural Revolution,......

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March 23, 2020

Academic Questions: Facts vs. Passion: The Debate over Science-Based Regulation

John Staddon

Historian of science Naomi Oreskes’s attack on a proposal to raise the scientific standards utilized by federal regulatory bodies—and on the National Association of Scholars, which support......

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January 2, 2020

Academic Questions: College Admissions Ride the Equality Roundabout

John Staddon

America’s institutions of higher education face an intractable problem: excellence and equality—the two principles college admissions offices are ostensibly committed to—are mutually......

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