Minding the Sciences

Minding the Campus is doubling down on our scrutiny of the sciences with this series, “Minding the Sciences.” In this ongoing series, we delve into topics like wokeism in STEM, scientific ethics, research funding, climate science, scientific organizations, and much more.

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Short Take: Science Has a Publicist

On August 20, the MIT Technology Review declared that artificial intelligence (AI) will help predict space weather. Yes, space has weather. Serious weather. It comes from eruptions from the sun called Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), which fling a vast quantity of mass into space. It can be dangerous to us if one of these solar […]

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Minding the Sciences — Science Should Leave the University

Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a new Minding the Campus article series called Minding the Sciences, wherein we are renewing our focus on the sciences given the many threats it faces in modern academia. Click here to learn more. A dozen years ago, National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood posed the provocative […]

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Minding the Sciences — In Defense of Merit: Is it too Late?

Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a new Minding the Campus article series called Minding the Sciences, wherein we are renewing our focus on the sciences given the many threats it faces in modern academia. Click here to learn more. In late April 2023, twenty-nine scientists published a manifesto titled “In Defense of Merit […]

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