Tag Archive: Academia
Academics Claim There Was a “Non-Binary Minority” in Prehistoric Europe
Two academics analysed prehistoric burial sites and found that some men were buried with female-typical objects and vice versa. They conclude that there was a "non-binary minority" in pre-historic Europe.
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On Wokeness, Its Nature, and Its Prospects
Eugyppius weighs in on the nature of wokeness and how best to defeat it. He thinks it's the usual alliance between ambitious, wannabe members of the elite and useful idiots, conspiring against ageing incumbents.
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Why Are Academic Publishers Asking Authors About Their Race?
Major academic publishers are asking the race of those who submit papers. This undermines confidence in the fairness of the editorial process, says Amber Muhinyi.
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Elite Universities ARE Hotbeds of Wokery
A recent Guardian article claims that elite universities are “highly conservative institutions”. In fact, they're institutionally woke. A recent poll at Harvard found that only 1.5% of faculty identify as conservative.
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Academic Publishing Industry Takes Green Virtue-Signalling to New Heights of Absurdity
The academic publishing industry is taking green virtue-signalling to new heights of absurdity, committing not only to publishing research on the topic but cutting its own miniscule 'carbon footprint' as well.
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Findings From a New Faculty Free Speech Survey
A new survey has found that younger academics are less likely to agree that it's never acceptable to deplatform a speaker using violence. This suggests the academy is becoming less supportive of free speech over time.
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Why Did So Many Academics, Trained to Think Critically, Embrace the Pandemic Narrative?
Why did so many academics buy into the Covid narrative? Dr Sinéad Murphy believes it was the inevitable consequence of Cartesian scepticism – distrusting the evidence in front of their own eyes.
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The Crisis of Viewpoint Diversity at Canadian Universities
A new survey reveals that 85% of Canadian academics are left-wing. When asked what they'd do if students made a petition against one of their colleagues, 40% of left-wing academics said they'd support the petition.
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Why Did So Many Professors Leap to the Defence of an Academic Who Wrote a Paper About Masturbating to Pornography?
Stuart Ritchie has written a good piece puzzling over why dozens of academics were so quick to leap to the defence of a university student who'd written a paper about masturbating to Japanese pornography.
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