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Burn Academia Down?

Jan 15, 2025 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim

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The last four years were the most repressive of my lifetime

Dec 17, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim

This is a guest post by Jake Mackey, a professor of classics at a liberal arts college in California and co-founder of Free Black Thought. He has two prior guest posts here: Living by virtuous lies: On the "racism" of the SAT and White Doctors Kill Black Babies: Dubious Science and Anti-Racist Medicine (co-authored with David Gilbert). Jake MackeyUnsafe Science is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
The Discrimination Paradox

Nov 22, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim Ph. D.

Longstanding and attentive subscribers have probably gotten used to me debunking woke nonsense masquerading as science. And lord knows there is plenty of that. But the woke are not always wrong. This essay is based on ideas developed in two of my team’s published papers (here and here). That second paper is mostly my usual fare, including scientific critiques of research on implicit bias, microaggressions and stereotype threat.
The New Expanded Illustrated Orwelexicon: DSM 666

Nov 14, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim

Welcome to the New Expanded Illustrated Orwelexicon. BANNED BY PSYCHOLOGY TODAY! Years ago, I submitted an earlier version of this there as a blog post and they took it down. In 12 short hours, it had garnered well over 1000 views, a bullet of popularity in PsychTodayLand. It was my first experience with increasing censoriousness at Psychology Today, which eventually led me to abandon blogging there and come here.
How Dare They Not Denounce Me as a Racist!

Oct 27, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim

What am I, chopped liver? I have now published a full-throated critique of the weak ”science” of microaggressions plus another paper which expands on that critique while also critically evaluating research on implicit bias, stereotype threat, and racial and gender discrimination (paper is in press at the forthcoming Handbook of Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination; manuscript version can be found here). “So what’s the problem?” you ask.
White Doctors Kill Black Babies:

Oct 10, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim

This is a wooden stake post on steroids. Wooden stakes kill vampires. Wooden stake posts aim to kill the false, unjustified and misleading academic claims that suck the blood out of social science validity and credibility. It is also the first wooden stake guest post to appear here.
My Finest Hour

Sep 9, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim

The Chinese Communist Party, like all Communist Parties, is evil. That such dangerously depraved despots rule over nearly 1.5 billion people is a stain on humanity. Worse, they seek domination beyond their borders and would like nothing more than to corrode the will and the ability of the democratic west to limit the damage they inflict on the rest of humanity. I have had many accomplishments, awards and honors over the years.
Adversarial Collaborations

Aug 21, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Christopher Ferguson |Lee Jussim

This is a collaborative post involving Cory Clark, Chris Ferguson and me on the merits of and obstacles to adversarial collaborations, which refers to researchers who have very different views about some phenomena, and often have publicly staked out very different positions, working together to empirically resolve some, or maybe all, of those differences. Cory Clark is a Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvania.
Living by virtuous lies: On the "racism" of the SAT

Aug 15, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Jacob Mackey |Lee Jussim

This is a guest post by Jacob L. Mackey, who is Associate Professor of Classics at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he teaches Greek and Latin languages and literatures, their transformative reception by African-American writers, their centrality to the American project of self-governance, and their power to transport us beyond our current culture of resentment.
Living by virtuous lies: On the "racism" of the SAT

Aug 15, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Jacob Mackey |Lee Jussim

This is a guest post by Jacob L. Mackey, who is Associate Professor of Classics at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he teaches Greek and Latin languages and literatures, their transformative reception by African-American writers, their centrality to the American project of self-governance, and their power to transport us beyond our current culture of resentment.