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Fox News
6 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Conservative, liberal scholars unite against 'wokeness' in new manifesto
Conservative and liberal scholars have published a manifesto calling for an end to "wokeness" in the humanities, the College Fix reported. "This peer pressure on academic freedom has constricted and warped the production of knowledge," political science professor Eric Kaufmann said in an email, according to The Fix. "It has made us dumber about the social world, not smarter," Kaufmann said. "The Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science", first published by The Chronicle of Higher Education in July, calls for a "post-progressive social science" to be "pursued in new universities and centers, among dissident scholars in the academic mainstream, in think tanks, or, best of all, in a future academe rededicated to open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and civil discourse." "In the second two decades of the 21st century, academic and cultural institutions were suddenly seized by a radical ideology known as Critical Social Justice, Intersectionality, the Identity Synthesis, the Successor Ideology, or most commonly, Wokeness," Kaufmann said. "This takeover took many by surprise and remains unexplained. We hold that the wokeness revolution was not compelled by new discoveries or moral imperatives but is a contingent historical episode that needs to be studied, just as scholars have sought to explain the rise of nationalism, communism, neoliberalism, and populism." Kaufmann organized the manifesto at a Heterodox Social Science conference at the University of Buckingham in June. According to Kaufmann's Substack detailing the conference, scholars assembled at the conference shared concerns about "forbidden topics or viewpoints," such as "the negative economic effects of immigration, or whether differences in family structure help to explain racial inequality." He explained further that "cultural left ideology" achieved a position of "institutional hegemony." Several scholars signed on from America's prestigious institutions, like the Ivy League, as well as prominent conservative activist Christopher Rufo, and liberal scholars including Steven Pinker from Harvard. Academics from other countries, including Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and Argentina, signed the manifesto as well. "In signing this manifesto, we are trying to define the new social science and theories that will guide knowledge production in the post-progressive era," Kaufmann told The College Fix. "They disagree on how to reform higher education, but agree that we need this new, positive, research agenda," he added. Kaufmann also announced a Buckingham Research Award of up to $100,000 for "post-progressive social science research" in the near future and a new book, "Post-Progressivism: Toward a New Social Science."
Atlantic
09-07-2025
- Health
- Atlantic
The Atlantic Announces Tom Bartlett as Staff Writer
As The Atlantic continues a major expansion of its editorial team, we are announcing that Tom Bartlett begins today as a staff writer covering health and science under the second Trump administration. Recently, Tom has covered the measles outbreak in West Texas, speaking with a parent of the first child to die of the disease in America in a decade and reporting on what RFK Jr. told grieving families about the measles vaccine. He has also written about the most extreme voice on Kennedy's new vaccine committee. Below is the staff announcement from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance: Dear everyone, We are very glad to share the news that Tom Bartlett is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer. Tom is an extraordinary reporter and a brilliant, empathetic writer—qualities that were all on display in the stories he wrote for us earlier this year about the Texas measles outbreak. As you no doubt remember, Tom found and interviewed the family of the first American child to die of measles in a decade, and he was also first to report on the conversations that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had with victims' families. At The Atlantic, he will cover a wide range of stories at the intersection of health and science, with a particular focus on attacks against enlightenment values and the remaking of American public health in the second Trump presidency. Tom comes to us with great expertise in scientific controversy and rooting out scientific dishonesty. Most recently, during his 22 years at The Chronicle of Higher Education, he covered the reproducibility crisis in psychology, numerous academic scandals, and even research about falsehoods that was itself falsified. Tom is also a seasoned features writer. (The Tom Bartlett completists among us will also remember his excellent profiles of Tucker Carlson and Gene Weingarten for the Washingtonian.) He has become one of the nation's great experts on the anti-vaccine movement, and is skilled at covering the field's major players with requisite scrutiny while still maintaining respectful curiosity about why people believe what they believe, and always demonstrating a willingness to go where the story—and the truth—lead him. Tom is based in Austin, Texas. Please join us in welcoming him to the team. Adrienne and Jeff The Atlantic has announced a number of new hires this year, including managing editor Griff Witte; staff writers Isaac Stanley-Becker, Tyler Austin Harper, Quinta Jurecic, Nick Miroff, Toulouse Olorunnipa, Ashley Parker, Alexandra Petri, Missy Ryan, Vivian Salama, Michael Scherer, Jamie Thompson, Josh Tyrangiel, Caity Weaver, and Nancy Youssef; and senior editors Jenna Johnson and Dan Zak. Please reach out with any questions or requests.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Medical professionals say schools have gotten too political, citing ‘unscientific modes of thinking'
Two medical professionals argued in a new report that "medical school has gotten too political," citing "unscientific modes of thinking." "Medical students are now immersed in the notion that undertaking political advocacy is as important as learning gross anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology," the authors wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Sally Satel, a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and Thomas S. Huddle, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Heersink School of Medicine, cited several instances of political sentiments affecting the medical school industry. They noted that researchers are "promoting unscientific modes of thinking about group-based disparities in health access and status." Ucla Medical School Hit With Class-action Lawsuit For Allegedly Still Using Race-based Admissions Process "The University of Minnesota's Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity decrees 'structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities,' despite the fact that this is at best an arguable thesis, not a fact. (The center was shut down last month.) The Kaiser Family Foundation states that health differentials 'stem from broader social and economic inequities,'" the authors write. Read On The Fox News App Satel and Huddle pushed further by detailing an incident that occurred at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center. The institution not only called for a ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas, the authors wrote that staff chanted "intifada, intifada, long live intifada!" which "echoed into patients' rooms." The New York Times reported last summer that the protesters at the University of California, San Francisco, chanting "intifada" consisted of medical students and doctors. Such an incident lays out more deeply the consequences of medical schools prioritizing politics over instruction on professional imperatives, according to the authors. "These doctors were not putting patients first — if anything, they were offending and intimidating patients. They were putting their notion of social justice first," they wrote. The two medical professionals cite other instances where medical schools are steeped in politics, such as endorsing "racial reparations" and instituting "antiracism" training in order to qualify for a medical license in the wake of George Floyd's death. Satel and Huddle offer medical professionals "guidelines" for how to "responsibly" meet patients' needs while leveraging their "professional standing to effect change", including advocating for policies that "directly help patients and are rooted in professional expertise while ensuring that their advocacy does not interfere with their relationships with their colleagues, students, and patients." Medical Schools 'Skirting' Scotus Ruling Rejecting Race In Admissions: Report Satel, a practicing psychiatrist, told Fox News Digital that she is the medical director of a methadone clinic that represents a clinical setting. In response to Fox News Digital's request for comment, Huddle said that his "academic career has been as a clinician teaching how to care for patients while caring for them."Original article source: Medical professionals say schools have gotten too political, citing 'unscientific modes of thinking'
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Forget smartphones and wokery. There's an even greater threat to our children's education
Given that today's children appear to spend much of their time in school being taught that the Vikings were champions of diversity and that human beings should be encouraged to choose between one or more of 72 different genders, you may fear that educational standards in this country are slipping somewhat. But perhaps we should be grateful. Because, believe it or not, things could actually be worse. Say, for example, we were to follow a radical proposal made the other day by Daniel Susskind. Dr Susskind is an eminent economist, as well as the author of a book entitled A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond. And, speaking at the Hay festival, he argued that the traditional school timetable should be ripped up, so that children can instead focus on learning to use artificial intelligence. 'We should be spending a third of the time that we have with students teaching them how to use these technologies,' he declared. 'How to write effective prompts and use these systems, get them to do what we want them to do…' I appreciate that Dr Susskind is an exceptionally learned and intelligent man. None the less, I for one think his proposal sounds horrifying. We often talk about the need to ban smartphones in schools. Which is fair enough. But my priority would be to ban AI. The fundamental purpose of education, after all, is to teach children how to think. AI, however, does the opposite. It teaches them that they don't need to think. Because it will do their thinking for them. For proof, look at what's already happening in universities. In April, The Chronicle of Higher Education – an American journal – reported that ever-growing numbers of students were essentially outsourcing their studies to AI. When a professor at New York University tried to prevent his students from using AI to complete their assignments, he was met with consternation. Some students protested that he was interfering with their 'learning styles'. Another complained: '[If] you're asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn't I use a car to get there?' Meanwhile, one student asked for an extension to a deadline, 'on the grounds that ChatGPT was down the day the assignment was due'. Still, I suppose we'd better get used to this sort of thing. It seems that a new educational era is upon us. One in which teachers get AI to set homework, pupils get AI to complete it, and then teachers get AI to mark it. Soon enough, there will be no need for human involvement at any stage of the process. So, as schools will effectively be superfluous, the Government might as well just shut them all down. In fact, I urge it to do so as quickly as possible. Such a move would immediately free up tens of billions of pounds a year. And since, in due course, AI will be taking all the jobs that today's children could have grown up to do, we'll need the money to pay their benefits. Heartfelt thanks to Ash Regan, the Scottish nationalist and one-time candidate to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister. Because on Sunday, she provided us with the one of the most memorable political quotes of the year. Even if not necessarily on purpose. Ms Regan was being interviewed by The Herald newspaper about her plans to clamp down on prostitution in Scotland, by criminalising the buying of sex. Wasn't there a risk, asked The Herald's reporter, that these plans might inadvertently drive prostitution underground? Ms Regan scoffed. Plainly she'd never heard anything so absurd. 'If you even think for one second, you cannot possibly drive prostitution underground,' she snorted. 'If you had a lot of women in underground cellars with a locked door, how would the punters get to them?' Having digested these extraordinary words, we can, I believe, draw only one conclusion. Ms Regan is 51 years old. And yet, during over a half a century on this planet, she has never heard – or at least, never understood – the phrase 'driven underground'. And so she'd taken it literally. After the interview, we must hope, a kindly aide will have taken her to one side, and gently explained that the expression is purely figurative. Otherwise, I fear that, despite Ms Regan's initial scoffing, she'll begin to worry that the reporter had a point – and that Scottish pimps really will take to opening brothels deep beneath the Earth's surface. If so, we must wait to see what revisions Ms Regan might make to her plans. Perhaps she will recommend that the Scottish NHS supply all prostitutes with free vitamin D tablets, to make up for the lack of sunlight they'll be getting. 'Way of the World' is a twice-weekly satirical look at the headlines while aiming to mock the absurdities of the modern world. It is published at 6am every Tuesday and Saturday Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Boston Globe
27-05-2025
- Boston Globe
Harvard revokes tenure of business professor accused of research fraud
The revocation of her tenure was previously reported by The university spokesperson said it was the first time in recent decades that the university has revoked a professor's tenure. Advertisement Gino's research has primarily examined the psychology of workplace decision making and has often focused on honesty. The author of the 2018 book, 'Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life,' she has provided speaking and consulting services to large corporations, and her work has been featured by many media outlets, including The allegations of research fraud surfaced in June 2023 after The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Harvard was investigating a paper that Gino co-authored. The next day, three behavioral scientists posted on their investigative research blog, Advertisement After Harvard conducted an 18-month investigation into Gino's work, a three-person committee found in March 2023 that she was responsible for 'research misconduct,' according to a In the lawsuit, Gino alleged that the university and the Data Colada authors conspired to defame her. She denied having ever falsified or fabricated data and said that Harvard's misconduct finding against her violated its own policies. She further alleged that the university's investigation into her work was unfair and biased. A federal judge dismissed the defamation charges against Harvard in September, according to court records, writing that Gino failed to 'plausibly allege any facts' showing common intent or an agreement between Harvard and the Data Colada writers to defame Gino. The judge, however, allowed claims that Harvard violated its contract with Gino by disciplining her in ways that violated the school's policies. Gino 'Harvard shared their case. And while my lawyers have discouraged me from speaking out, I just need to say that I did not — ever — engage in academic fraud,' she wrote. 'Once I have the opportunity to prove this in the court of law, with the support of experts I was denied through Harvard's investigation process, you'll see why their case is so weak and that these are bogus allegations." Nick Stoico can be reached at
