Preeminent scientists are sounding the alarm that ideology is undermining merit in the sciences. I strongly support them.  journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/1/236

Not forgotten by some of us, for sure.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. -- Kurt Gödel

I offer more analysis of how universities betrayed their "telos" (central purpose) of truth in this lecture I gave at Duke in 2016. I predicted that "the conflict between truth and social justice is likely to become unmanageable." At Heterodox Academy heterodoxacademy.org/blog/one-telos…

The wrong way for the elite universities to dig themselves out their reputational hole: restrict speech even more. Instead: 1. Clear & coherent free speech policy. 2. Institutional neutrality: Universities are forums, not protagonists. 3. Force prohibited: No more heckler's

We're now seeing how identitarianism (making group-based identity the primary analytical and moral lens) has damaged academic culture. In a new paper, George Yancey shows how it also damages the mental health of those who embrace it. At Heterodox Academy heterodoxacademy.org/blog/the-healt…

Tis true.

A knot. Anybody care to identify it?

Knot lit up.

From Princeton math professor Sergiu Klainerman: tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

How I fell out of love with academia (this video was an accidental publication/scheduling blunder😬😬 but well uh, happy Friday I guess) youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlG…

55 years ago; still remembered.

ChatGPT has frequently been accused to lean toward the political left. A new study tested the political orientation of other popular large language models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The results were... somewhat surprising. Or maybe not? youtube.com/watch?v=xaroJx…

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