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Sociology's Pervasively Dubious Assumptions
Sociology's Pervasively Dubious Assumptions
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December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Is Internal Reform of Academia Possible? • Rebuttals of the "Can't do" attitudes among some reformers
Is Internal Reform of Academia Possible?
Rebuttals of the "Can't do" attitudes among some reformers
unsafescience.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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November 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The 1915 AAUP Warned the AAUP Not to Become the AAUP of 2025 • A Tale of Forgotten Wisdom
The 1915 AAUP Warned the AAUP Not to Become the AAUP of 2025
A Tale of Forgotten Wisdom
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Fear Equity Actually Can Motivate Academics to Publicly Endorse Academic Freedom • A Case Study and Small Victory within my Department
Fear Equity Actually Can Motivate Academics to Publicly Endorse Academic Freedom
A Case Study and Small Victory within my Department
unsafescience.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
How Dare They Empirically Assess "White Privilege" Narratives by Focusing on Economic and Educational Outcomes • Peer Review Rejects a Good Paper for Bad Reasons (Again)
How Dare They Empirically Assess "White Privilege" Narratives by Focusing on Economic and Educational Outcomes
Peer Review Rejects a Good Paper for Bad Reasons (Again)
unsafescience.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Research on Microaggressions and Their Impacts Assesses Neither Microaggressions nor Their Impacts • Draft of An Article on Verge of Journal Submission
Research on Microaggressions and Their Impacts Assesses Neither Microaggressions nor Their Impacts
Draft of An Article on Verge of Journal Submission
unsafescience.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Threat to Free Speech and Academic Freedom from the Govt Right • Republican Govt officials have pressured colleges to punish faculty for speech they find offensive.
The Threat to Free Speech and Academic Freedom from the Govt Right
Republican Govt officials have pressured colleges to punish faculty for speech they find offensive.
unsafescience.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Academic Survivors and Thrivers After Cancelation Attacks • Where are they now?
Academic Survivors and Thrivers After Cancelation Attacks
Where are they now?
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reviewing Nature's Reviews of Our Proposal to Replicate The Famous Moss-Racusin et al Study on Sex Bias in Science Hiring • Part I of a Series within a Series: They Told Us the Study Could Not be Replicated
Reviewing Nature's Reviews of Our Proposal to Replicate The Famous Moss-Racusin et al Study on Sex Bias in Science Hiring
Part I of a Series within a Series: They Told Us the Study Could Not be Replicated
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New Vindication for the Regnerus Same-Sex Parenting Study • Widely denounced study holds up well under rigorous robustness analyses
New Vindication for the Regnerus Same-Sex Parenting Study
Widely denounced study holds up well under rigorous robustness analyses
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Horror in Fact and Fantasy • No, this is not an anti-woke diatribe; its a list of podcasts I love
Horror in Fact and Fantasy
No, this is not an anti-woke diatribe; its a list of podcasts I love
unsafescience.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
From Heterodox to Helpless • Why Internal-Reform Is Not Enough, and the Case for a Veritas-Narcan for Higher Education
From Heterodox to Helpless
Why Internal-Reform Is Not Enough, and the Case for a Veritas-Narcan for Higher Education
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science
The Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
More Evidence of Biases Against Men than Against Women in Faculty Hiring • A Compendium of All Experimental Studies of Faculty Hiring
More Evidence of Biases Against Men than Against Women in Faculty Hiring
A Compendium of All Experimental Studies of Faculty Hiring
unsafescience.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Why I Signed On To the Manhattan Institute Call to Reform Academia
Why I Signed On To the Manhattan Institute Call to Reform Academia
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Diversity is the Inverse of University • Special report from the UK
Diversity is the Inverse of University
Special report from the UK
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Scientific Rigor versus Rigor Posturing • An analysis of the claims about methodological rigor in Moss-Racusin et al (2012)
Scientific Rigor versus Rigor Posturing
An analysis of the claims about methodological rigor in Moss-Racusin et al (2012)
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
REVERSAL: Science Faculty's "Subtle" Gender Biases Against Men • Our Highly Powered Registered Replication Report Finds Bias in the Opposite Direction of a Very Influential Study
REVERSAL: Science Faculty's "Subtle" Gender Biases Against Men
Our Highly Powered Registered Replication Report Finds Bias in the Opposite Direction of a Very Influential Study
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
NIH Staff Revolt Promotes Propaganda about Diversity • A Wooden Stake Essay
NIH Staff Revolt Promotes Propaganda about Diversity
A Wooden Stake Essay
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Academic Freedom from Ideological Capture • An argument for how the government can save sociology from itself
Academic Freedom from Ideological Capture
An argument for how the government can save sociology from itself
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What Rodeo can Teach Academia • Embrace Intellectual Risk, "Harm" Avoidance is an Individual, not Institutional, Responsibility
What Rodeo can Teach Academia
Embrace Intellectual Risk, "Harm" Avoidance is an Individual, not Institutional, Responsibility
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November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM