Minding the Sciences—Science’s Goose is Cooked: Seven Pillars of Folly
…clear what the result might be. And so, the bargain was struck. Since then, the “NSF model” has been adopted by more than a dozen government agencies, making the federal…
…clear what the result might be. And so, the bargain was struck. Since then, the “NSF model” has been adopted by more than a dozen government agencies, making the federal…
…two cultures: A second look (1963) in The two cultures. Stefan Collini Introduction: Cambridge (1998). [6] https://hxstem.substack.com/p/how-stem-is-sleepwalking-into-wokery?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 [7] https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/06/20/science-is-rotting-from-the-top/ [8] https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/03/27/the-corruption-of-science-by-social-justice/ [9] https://www.acs.org/policy/washington-science/2021-public-comments/2021-acs-comments/2021-deir-statement.htm [10] https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/04/14/never-mind-science-be-authentic/ [11] https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/01/09/early-warnings-were-ignored-dei-trainings-and-social-pressure/ [12] https://wus-streaming-video-rt-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/837f4b25-b40c-4ab8-93cb-8db30035a4df/ebf76aab-2ce1-4e2d-89ee-4f1796e0_3400.mp4 &…
…the prevalent trend of excessive social media use among students in public schools, providing a more intellectually and morally enriching environment that encourages the development of faith and character. Fourthly,…
…For the threat is to do something entirely legal; namely, engage in a bit of gossip. This should sharply be distinguished from extortion, which also constitutes a threat coupled with…
…neglect carries significant consequences for society. When it’s one person in a book, the result is an entertaining comedy. When it’s millions of people, the result is mass depression. Ignatius…
…often diagnosed with other disorders such as ADHD or conduct disorders, and even intellectual disabilities when their white peers are diagnosed with autism.” One way or another, new diversity concepts…
…been acquainted with critiques of Marxism—and all too often they have not been on campus—they have been cheated. The reality on most college and university campuses differs greatly from what…
…speech akin to that espoused by Musk. Others, perhaps resentful over years of online persecution, called for a role reversal—when a couple of mainstream media journalists were banned by the…
…McKibben, who helped write the law, claims the Biden administration “inherited a mess, so that’s why I try to give [the Biden administration] some credit.” This is nonsense. The changes…
…course. An entire distinguished career might be built on just two magnum opuses. Scholarship was gentlemanlike and professors at elite schools often enjoyed a life of leisure. Department prestige often…
…the fact that the Göttingen mathematics faculty recently had been gutted of precisely those men and women who had made it world famous, namely Emmy Noether (1882–1935), Hermann Weyl (1885–1955),…
…entire OPM landscape.” The GCU fine fits with this pattern of blind, ideologically driven hostility to profit from the Biden administration. Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA) ED recently…
…arbitrary detentions, to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings.” When confronted with backlash and outrage about the illogical blaming of Israel for atrocities against Israelis, some student…
…masses while retracing the story’s original plaza: “En la calle, en las escaleras de Constitución, en el subterráneo, me parecieron familiares todas las caras.” Echoing this populist vision, when Argentino…
…dedicated “Search Committee Diversity Advocate.” It also asks search committees to list when its “chair and/or members attend[ed] one of the seven ‘Searching for Inclusive Excellence’ workshops,” and to give…
…and various online certificates. The actual professoriate is often ignorant of the student affairs bureaucracy and, in most cases, has no influence on—and certainly no oversight over—this “co-curriculum.” Typically, the…
…is hard, but it’s not my fault. I try my best to make class enjoyable by interjecting humor when appropriate. Nevertheless, you will sometimes feel overwhelmed by the amount of…
…to undergo “top surgery.” • The fight for transgenderism is primarily driven by biological men. • California and Washington allow biological men to transfer into women’s prisons. There are currently…
…written by another person. Along the same lines, they were also better able to correctly identify accurate information if it was written by GPT-3 rather than by a human. Given…
…we all end up in the same place; all of us navigate toward the same final point of equality. … in each country, men increasingly discard the ideas and opinions…
…of the letter makes reference to UCLA policy or a statement made by UCLA administrators. The letter was emailed to the entire UCLA psychology faculty and was circulated widely, even…
…students enrolled in college were African-American, a drastically low number relative to that of the 60 percent of white students enrolled.” When the reader knows the black population percentage, this…
…the notion of the thoughtful, engaged doctor who enters public discourse as a learned and trustworthy figure has been replaced by a veritable ocean of glib physician-activists whose primary purpose…
…enters the scholarly record. Once there, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to extract. Given its heavy-handed use of taxpayer-funded privileges, the research center likely made enemies other than myself. But one…
…enter grades in your online course management system at the Grade Center link. Then you flail around until you see them under S, for Submit Grades. Found it! I’m not…
…innovative solutions such as ContextUS can even enhance classroom discussion. Through open exploration of historical lives and ideas taken directly from the source, teachers can humanize historical figures so that…
…behold the nature, the pure spite, of hyper-political wokeness. On Saturday, April 29, 2023, MCC hosted its first Community Open House. Various programs and departments set up tables laden with…
…university? Wood framed his question in practical terms. There has always been a bargain of sorts between universities and their science faculties. Universities provide the means for scientists to do…
…enjoy steady employment. The Gates Foundation also happens to be the chief proponent of a particular philosophy of curriculum, instruction, and testing—the Common Core Standards—funding its development and national implementation,…
At the age of ten, while running on my family’s patio I slipped and put my arm through the window of the kitchen door. I paused to marvel. I hadn’t…