Hero worship in science is rotten. There are no giants on whose shoulders we stand. We're all part of a community that spans time and geography. Getting fixated on origin stories is very Marvel. Science doesn't happen in heroland though.

We must change this mindset that the essential and most critical work in a field is always the first one. That distorted view has caused a lot of problems in psychological science already. The first work is just that—the start. Every field should be evaluated based on the complete body of evidence.

I think some people don't care about what works, they care about being the authority on what works

I’ve said since LowerEd is that neoliberal credential expansion usually starts by producing a degree to solve a short term employment bottleneck, for example in nursing in 2000s. The degrees get predatory once demand is met

The AI labor market doesn’t even have the short term labor market demand!

If all the left needed was policy that improves people lives, they’d win every time. What keeps them from that isn’t a lack of good ideas or evidence of good outcomes from those ideas. The biggest obstacle is the societal push to ignore what the lack of soft skills in everyday people leads to.

Someone should write an obituary for the Hatch Act.

There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

I felt the same after reading the Abundance chapter that talked about on the NIH research. After reading your thread, I see close similarities in the arguments from the NYT article and that book

And we already did a trial run of this in Los Angeles and not a single GOFO or officer/ from the marine corps resigned so you tell me when they’ll randomly start disobeying orders?

empire always comes home and this is what it looks like. The Pentagon is literally calling the "Safe and Beautiful Task Force" a "presence patrol," the same language it used in Iraq and Afghanistan