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The Political Science world is abuzz about a professor who is leaving academics because of the increasing nonsense in the ability to publish. In money of the social science journals publications are being evaluated on if they cite enough women or other minorities groups
not the actual results of the paper. This gotten bad enough that some people are just giving up on the field.
“Four times, at four separate journals, this past year I submitted an article and received no feedback other than: a) you don't cite enough women, b) you don't cite [unrelated] literature on 'bias', c) nobody could possibly understand an article without p-values. Top reason I quit.”
https://twitter.com/knrd_z/status/1391819873047793666?s=20
https://www.poliscirumors.com/topic/no-country-for-white-men-polsci-academic-on-why-he-and-others-are-leaving
The obvious question is when is this coming to science journals. Personally I have not seen this in science journals or heard of it but there is some hints that this is coming.
Biden just recently put out a plan to make science grant money be based on diversity. Viden also made a pick for the Office of Science that how should I say not exactly qualified. Even some scientists with pretty far left leaning finds this choice bad.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-scientific-method-identity-politics-11620581262
President Biden has nominated Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, a soil biogeochemist from the University of California, Merced, to lead the Office of Science. Ms. Berhe will be the first black woman to lead the science office, happily lending a more diverse face to science in this country.
Ms. Berhe’s research program on soil chemistry, exploring the capture of carbon dioxide, is relevant to climate-change policy. But her research expertise isn’t in any of the Office of Science’s major programs, and she has no experience as a scientific administrator and minimal experience with the Energy Department itself. Past directors have been established researchers from one of the major fields supported by the department, or they have administered large private laboratories
Good times ahead.
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> is relevant to climate-change policy. But her research expertise isn’t in any of
> the Office of Science’s major programs
Actually, her research expertise is well aligned with several programs in DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) in the Office of Science.
https://science.osti.gov/ber/Research/eessd
You are correct however Krauss is also correct that that her particular line of research is not alined with any of the DOEs major programs,
just a subsection of a smaller area compared to the rest. You can say what you want but she is by far the least experienced person to ever take this position and it is a bizarre choice.
But back to theme of the post.
It would seem that times are changing the university of California is dropping its SAT and ACT tests for admission as the have been deemed racist. This oddly enough will most strongly effect Asians. You see where this trend is going. Publications particularly in the social sciences
have been becoming more heavy handed with diversity and workness rather than actually contact or rigor. Maybe it is a matter of time before this comes to the hard science and the labs. Maybe the lab evaluations are going to increasingly based on diversity and social justice rather than traditional lab missions. You may laugh at this but the water has been heating up since 2012 or so in terms of this increasingly social justice agenda, and we are now starting to see it in more and more places.
5/17/2021 5:35 PM
In case you have not heard the Nobel prize is now coming under attack as well. In fact all established institutes that are based on some form of meritocracy are being pushed to be dismantled in the name of equity.
"All established institutes"? Really, all of them? Every single one? Yeah, that makes sense. Hyperbole is not an art form.
The journal Nature is going to change way they operate to fight racism.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01312-4
Next week marks a year since the murder of George Floyd, and nearly a year since the Black Lives Matter protests compelled numerous institutions — including many in research — to acknowledge systemic racism. These events made universities, institutes, corporations, museums, societies, publishers and funders confront racial injustice in a way that had never happened before.
As part of that response, Nature recognized systemic racism in science and our part in it, and committed to stand against it.
Racism in science is endemic because the systems that produce and teach scientific knowledge have, for centuries, misrepresented, marginalized and mistreated people of colour and under-represented communities. The research system has justified racism — and, too often, scientists in positions of power have benefited from it. That system includes the organization of research: how it is funded, published and evaluated.
We are taking further steps to diversify our authors, reviewers and contributors. Funders, research institutions and publishers must work together to ensure that research from diverse scientists is funded and published.
The journal Nature is going to change way they operate to fight racism.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01312-4
Next week marks a year since the murder of George Floyd, and nearly a year since the Black Lives Matter protests compelled numerous institutions — including many in research — to acknowledge systemic racism. These events made universities, institutes, corporations, museums, societies, publishers and funders confront racial injustice in a way that had never happened before.
As part of that response, Nature recognized systemic racism in science and our part in it, and committed to stand against it.
Racism in science is endemic because the systems that produce and teach scientific knowledge have, for centuries, misrepresented, marginalized and mistreated people of colour and under-represented communities. The research system has justified racism — and, too often, scientists in positions of power have benefited from it. That system includes the organization of research: how it is funded, published and evaluated.
We are taking further steps to diversify our authors, reviewers and contributors. Funders, research institutions and publishers must work together to ensure that research from diverse scientists is funded and published.
"all established institutes that are based on some form of meritocracy" is a very, very small set, so 12:40 AM might actually be right.
5/21/2021 11:52 PM
So I guess you are admitting that you are a racist. So sorry for you.
5/23/2021 5:19 PM"
To be clear one of the tents of critical race theory is that yes we are all racists, whether you know it or not. Don't believe below is what what professors are saying
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9603629/California-school-district-hired-psychiatrist-anti-racism-training-faculty.html
'It's really just plain old racism': Laura Ingraham backs parents who blasted California school district for hiring anti-racist psychology professor to smash 'whiteness norms'
Psychology Professor Sheri Atwater was recently hired by an LA school district
She will be training teachers in the the Hermosa Beach City School District on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), drawing the ire of some parents
A clip of her speaking about her methods was played on Fox News on Thursday
Parents in the district have come out against the school district hiring her
Laura Ingraham has backed those critics, branding people like Atwater 'anti-American ideologues'
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has joined parents in blasting a California school district who hired an anti-racist psychologist to take on 'whiteness norms.'
In a clip featured on Fox News' 'The Ingraham Angle', psychology Professor Sheri Atwater - recently hired by the Hermosa Beach City School District - is shown during a Zoom meeting talking about her teaching methods.
Her methods include asking participants to put their hand up if they are racist.
Speaking on Thursday, Ingraham used the video as an example for her claim that schools in America are preparing 'to bring racial propaganda into school subjects, every syllabus, and every academic award given out'.
'They're going to hire score of rabid anti-American ideologues, destroying what is left of objective merit for students and faculty alike,' Ingraham said.
'Now here are the types of DEI consultants and lecturers hired for the re-programming. Meet Loyola Marymount University psychology Professor Sheri Atwater, recently hired by the the Hermosa Beach City School District in California to lecture faculty on anti-racism.'
The clip of Atwater explaining her teaching methods was then played, with Ingraham explaining she had been hired to lecture the faculty on anti-racism.
'Raise your hand if you're racist': In a clip featured on Fox News' 'The Ingraham Angle', psychology Professor Sheri Atwater - recently hired by the Hermosa Beach City School District - is shown during a Zoom meeting about her teaching methods
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'Raise your hand if you're racist': In a clip featured on Fox News' 'The Ingraham Angle', psychology Professor Sheri Atwater - recently hired by the Hermosa Beach City School District - is shown during a Zoom meeting about her teaching methods
'One of the favorite things I like to do in my multi-cultural counselling class - First question when I walk up there is - raise your hand if you're racist,' Atwater said. 'And raise your hand if you're not.
'And then I talk about how every single person in that room - you know no one's raised their hand if they're racist - and they're all telling the truth, but also by the end of this lecture and discussion you'll understand that you're telling the truth and you're also lying at the same time.
'And that's because we have implicit biases about everything - gender, race. They operate, these unconscious biases without our permission, and without our control. So you can't tell me that you're not racist - unconsciously - because our brain's built on understanding stereotypes, that's how we make sense of our world.'