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CMDRConanAAnderson 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why didn't he release this exact article back when his transgender comments almost had him removed from the psychology community several years ago? Yes I mean specifically scientific activism like climate changes and such. His core teaching go far beyond our era and are applicable to humanity in any epoch really.

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RumpyCustardo 1 point ago +1 / -0

He couldn't have released this exact article as the developments he is speaking of are new, but he has certainly talked at length many, many times about diversity, inclusion and equity in universities and the negative consequences. You could hardly miss it if you've heard or seen him speak so I still don't know what you are talking about exactly. Are you now making this specifically just about the hard sciences?

some examples, btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquIQisaZFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBegL_V6AA (from a 90 minute interview with Jonathan Haidt titled 'The Perilous State of the University)

2 hours discussing what happened with Lindsay Shepherd at Wilfred Laurier University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWVmDSMl30s

"Why should you care? Because this is, in truth, the state of the modern university -- and what happens there will happen everywhere five years later."

Oh, and he has spoken specifically about climate change too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUylMbTwY_0

These are just the examples I can remember, but he definitely talked about it in the Joe Rogan podcasts. I think you'd have a better chance of finding him talking about the problems with universities than not if you picked media of him at random.

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CMDRConanAAnderson 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes this is precisely about the empirical sciences as opposed to evolving cultural norms on a college campus. You could say the Marxist infiltration of the American education system is a product of the Cold war, long before even McCarthy. The difference today is the average, anonymous, uneducated activist has a say in the educator's policy decisions absent what merit they should have or believe they have. I know the two seem similar in nature, but to someone who's looked at this kind of behavior for a long time the difference between faculty deliberating changes through discussion and being forced into a decision change without a vote cannot be mistaken as the same situation. It is not the same for a committee of independent liberal minded members to agree on liberal policies (even if they're morons) than it is for an angry activist mob to dictate what those officials can be for or against. One is legitimate but unfortunate, the other removes authority from the power structure and allocates it to self proclaimed victims.