Nearly One-Third of Faculty in Red States Say They’ve Censored Their Research

[Hume]

Nearly a third of researchers polled in a newly released survey said they’ve censored their own research because of laws in their state restricting the teaching and study of “divisive concepts.”

Twenty-one states have passed laws since 2021 regulating university curricula, dictating how certain topics related to race and gender can be taught, and restricting shared governance. That’s driving some academics away from topics and out of states with laws on “divisive concepts,” “woke ideologies,” “DEI,” or “critical race theory”, the survey of 4,000 faculty members found. It was conducted last fall by Ithaka S+R, a research and consulting service, and released this past week.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/nearly-one-third-of-faculty-in-red-states-say-theyve-censored-their-research

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Nearly a third of researchers polled in a newly released survey said they’ve censored their own research because of laws in their state restricting the teaching and study of “divisive concepts.”

Twenty-one states have passed laws since 2021 regulating university curricula, dictating how certain topics related to race and gender can be taught, and restricting shared governance. That’s driving some academics away from topics and out of states with laws on “divisive concepts,” “woke ideologies,” “DEI,” or “critical race theory”, the survey of 4,000 faculty members found. It was conducted last fall by Ithaka S+R, a research and consulting service, and released this past week.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/nearly-one-third-of-faculty-in-red-states-say-theyve-censored-their-research

Maybe they should consider teaching something useful instead. I wonder... How many of these "researchers" are politically conservative and how many are Leftists?

 

[Hume]

Maybe they should consider teaching something useful instead. I wonder... How many of these "researchers" are politically conservative and how many are Leftists?

So, you want historians to only write what Trump approves of?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

So, you want historians to only write what Trump approves of?

Who says these "researchers" are historians? DEI, woke ideology, and CRT are all constructs of the radical Left and taught in fields like sociology, gender studies, Black studies, education, or general liberal arts.

 

[Hume]

Who says these "researchers" are historians? DEI, woke ideology, and CRT are all constructs of the radical Left and taught in fields like sociology, gender studies, Black studies, education, or general liberal arts.

I am certain you have no idea what academics research.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I am certain you have no idea what academics research.

I would think that it is stuff in their field of expertise.

 

[Hume]

On Cynicism in the Academy.​

Today’s post reflects an ongoing rumination on the nature and evolution of academic freedom in the contemporary university, but it was prompted by two recent news items: first, by the announcement that Martin Peterson, currently professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Southern Methodist University (SMU); second the news reported in the Harvard Crimson that “Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity.’” (Wasn’t that what the visiting fellows program at the Kennedy school was for?) If we look more closely at the details of each episode, they point to widespread cynicism within the academy.

On Cynicism in the Academy.

“I admire the many federal prosecutors across the country who have chosen to resign rather than carry out illegal or immoral orders.

digressionsimpressions.substack.com

 

[Hume]

I would think that it is stuff in their field of expertise.

So, please tell me how you know this work you never read is biased and not legitimate research?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

On Cynicism in the Academy.​

Today’s post reflects an ongoing rumination on the nature and evolution of academic freedom in the contemporary university, but it was prompted by two recent news items: first, by the announcement that Martin Peterson, currently professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Southern Methodist University (SMU); second the news reported in the Harvard Crimsonthat “Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity.’” (Wasn’t that what the visiting fellows program at the Kennedy school was for?) If we look more closely at the details of each episode, they point to widespread cynicism within the academy.

On Cynicism in the Academy.

“I admire the many federal prosecutors across the country who have chosen to resign rather than carry out illegal or immoral orders.

digressionsimpressions.substack.com

So? That doesn't mean that dreck is useful. In Nazi Germany academics trotted out things like Ayrian Physics and the like. Those too were nonsense.

So, please tell me how you know this work you never read is biased and not legitimate research?

It is unusual for an academic to publish outside their field and when they do it can go badly for them. An example of this is John Mosier, an English professor at Loyola. He decided to try being a military historian only to have his books thoroughly panned as amateurish tripe by military historians. In fact, I exchanged e-mails years ago with him over his book The Blitzkrieg Myth and how utterly wrong he'd gotten almost everything. His defense was he had a PhD and I didn't. He was anything but happy when I pushed back with a whole pile of examples from is book and showed how he was dead flat wrong. So, he tried telling me his book was "peer reviewed." Didn't buy that bullshit either. He couldn't defend his own work. That's how mediocre he was.

 

[Hume]

So? That doesn't mean that dreck is useful. In Nazi Germany academics trotted out things like Ayrian Physics and the like. Those too were nonsense.


It is unusual for an academic to publish outside their field and when they do it can go badly for them. An example of this is John Mosier, an English professor at Loyola. He decided to try being a military historian only to have his books thoroughly panned as amateurish tripe by military historians. In fact, I exchanged e-mails years ago with him over his book The Blitzkrieg Myth and how utterly wrong he'd gotten almost everything. His defense was he had a PhD and I didn't. He was anything but happy when I pushed back with a whole pile of examples from is book and showed how he was dead flat wrong. So, he tried telling me his book was "peer reviewed." Didn't buy that bullshit either. He couldn't defend his own work. That's how mediocre he was.

So, you have no idea what these academics are writing. But you know it is poor scholarship.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

So, you have no idea what these academics are writing. But you know it is poor scholarship.

I know if it's on the subjects in your original link, what they're writing is dreck. Their "academics" are on this level.

 

[Hume]

I know if it's on the subjects in your original link, what they're writing is dreck. Their "academics" are on this level.

Sorry, your stupidity is boring.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Sorry, your stupidity is boring.

You're not sorry, you're pathetic!

 

[Hume]

You're not sorry, you're pathetic!

Seriously, calling all academic research a fraud is silly.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Seriously, calling all academic research a fraud is silly.

I didn't call "all" academic research a fraud. I called the sort of tripe the radical Left publishes a fraud.

 

[Hume]

I didn't call "all" academic research a fraud. I called the sort of tripe the radical Left publishes a fraud.

sorry, boring.....

 

[T. A. Gardner]

sorry, boring.....

Yea, no response on your part. How usual.

From Marx to Crenshaw, and everything in between, the radical Left's ideas are a disastrous failure. Of course, you can't adequately defend the obverse of that in the least.

 

[Hume]

Yea, no response on your part. How usual.

From Marx to Crenshaw, and everything in between, the radical Left's ideas are a disastrous failure. Of course, you can't adequately defend the obverse of that in the least.

So, only Trump approved research is acceptable to you? Just like the Soviets and Lysenko Affair.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

So, only Trump approved research is acceptable to you? Just like the Soviets and Lysenko Affair.

Way to change the subject! We were discussing if the research Trump nixed is worth funding. You changed that to Trump is a dictator for not funding it without bothering to prove it's worth funding. I showed multiple cases arguing that funding what amounts to radical Leftist research is not worth funding and that not all academic research is valuable.

 

[Hume]

Way to change the subject! We were discussing if the research Trump nixed is worth funding. You changed that to Trump is a dictator for not funding it without bothering to prove it's worth funding. I showed multiple cases arguing that funding what amounts to radical Leftist research is not worth funding and that not all academic research is valuable.

You are too stupid. Seriously, you really are a dope.