This time, a medical school neuroscientist is on the hot seat for research misconduct at Harvard. Claudine Gay could at least argue that her academic misconduct wasn’t exactly brain surgery, but now that two of the academic scandals are at Harvard Medical School and one includes a neuroscientist, you get the idea. This is not […]
Harvard can’t catch a break. Not that I feel sorry for them. The university is getting what it asked for, good and hard. They look down at the plebs with disgust because, after all, Harvard has all the credentialed smart people, so they can’t complain when others point out that those credentialed and smart people […]
There are lots of hot takes about the Claudine Gay resignation still appearing at various sites. I’ve read a few this morning and of those I think this one at the NY Times is the worst. The argument being made here by author Tressie McMillam Cottom is that Gay’s resignation was a shameful moment in […]
Matthew Karp, a history professor at Princeton, wrote an interesting thread on what has happened to his academic discipline over the past few years. Interesting and unsurprisingly very troubling. History Departments are no longer interested in teaching history per se but the history of ethnic groups. This is revealed in the job postings from history […]
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