It is also on Spotify and Apple Music: open.spotify.com/episode/1IDh...

From an op-ed I wrote for Newsweek on the role elite schools played in creating people like Vance by promoting the meritocracy myth.

www.newsweek.com/time-america...

We are well, all things considering!

Heidi, I hope you are doing well! Congrats on your JAMA paper

For those looking for the primary source of the studies about — among other things — the 44.3% admin. burden of externally funded research: thefdp.org/demonstratio...
- reports & slide decks
- data from 2005, 2012, 2018

(These data show *many* more results — more valuable than the PNAS paper, IMO.)

So I'm not surprised this is happening, but I'm waiting to see what the order actually says before drawing conclusions.

If you'd like to learn more about how conversion therapy is still happening, the Trevor Project has been tracking providers for years: www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/u...

This is very informative — thank you for writing it!

Perhaps you might disagree w the value-orientation of one’s work, but it is silly and intellectually dishonest to dismiss the empiricism of such work simply because you disagree w the value orientation.

So often we conflate these concepts and it becomes hard to have good-faith conversations. I’m also convinced certain people willfully denigrate the notion of values in order to uphold the status quo values, which enjoy covert status

“What is the effect of intervention x on reducing y symptoms of z condition.”

The most obvious value expressed here is symptoms = bad. We might argue that there is variation in who values that & under what conditions. But, that doesn’t *necessarily* diminish empirical learning.

I am also skeptical of “evidence-based policy.” The idea is often predicated on indifference to the reality that the production and use of evidence is endogenous to political processes. Evidence is important. But it is fundamentally political. So, whether & how it gets used is a matter of power.