Tag Archive: Academia
U.K. Universities Lead the World in Spin
U.K. universities lead the world in spin, says Dr. Roger Watson, who describes some of the most egregious examples from his 30-year university teaching career.
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Academic Publishing is a Racket
Academic publishing has become a racket, says Dr. David Livermore. Authors pay thousands to get their articles in, editors and referees are practically slave-labour, but publishing houses like Elsevier are raking it in.
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‘Afrochemistry’ Course Shows That Even the Hard Sciences are Falling to the Woke Ideologues
Identity politics has corrupted academic disciplines, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, and the arrival of an 'Afrochemistry' course at a U.S. university shows that even the hard sciences are not immune.
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The Lockdown, Stupid
Children's rights advocates are finally waking up to the devastation lockdowns visited upon young people. But they still can't bring themselves to admit that schools closures were wrong and should never have happened.
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The Imagined “Government Assault on Academic Freedom”
There has never been a class of people who are freer to express their opinions than Left-leaning academics in 2023. So why do they think the Government is trying to censor them, asks Dr David McGrogan.
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China Gets a Few Things Right
China gets a lot wrong, but a few things right, says Dr Roger Watson, who finds the country moving ahead in some ways but still lamentable in others.
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Can You Prove Anything with Statistics?
73 teams of social scientists were invited to take part in a study where each team tested the same hypothesis using the same data. What happened? Results varied hugely and absolutely no consensus emerged.
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DEI in Academic Publishing Paves the Way for Differential Treatment by Race
Discriminatory practices are clearly being encouraged as part of DEI in academic publishing, says Amber Muhinyi, as publishers are collecting data on the race of authors and reviewers and presenting this to journals.
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The West has Gone Woke – Yet the Paranoid Left Still Believes Right-Wing Ideas Control Culture
The Western world has gone all-in for wokeness, yet many on the Left still persist in their paranoid delusion that Right-wing ideas control the culture, says Dr David McGrogan.
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The Unintended Consequences of MeToo
A new paper looks at one unintended consequence of the MeToo movement: senior male academics became more reluctant to collaborate with junior female colleagues, thereby harming the latter’s career prospects.
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