Jan 10, 2023 09:10 PM
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https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/01/09/sta...rt-1-16754
EXCERPTS: Stanford University, which consistently ranks among the top U.S. colleges and universities, is one of the great research institutions in the world. But it also harbors a profound paradox — superb science in academic departments but often uncritically embracing trendy notions that contradict its well-earned reputation as a cutting-edge, science-grounded institution.
Hardly a month passes without news of a genuinely significant breakthrough in some field of science or technology. [...] But a few Stanford professors have not distinguished themselves well during the COVID-19 pandemic...
[...] Now it appears that Stanford’s reputation is about to take another hit. Several scientific articles coauthored by its president, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne, in prestigious journals are being reviewed for possible professional misconduct
[...] And then there is the Orwellian "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative," which Stanford's political correctness mavens published last year.
Aside from the COVID-related shortcomings, the university president’s vicissitudes, and the asinine display of political correctness, there are systematic, long-standing, anti-scientific tendencies at Stanford that receive little attention. Often, the university allows its relentless virtue signaling to overwhelm rationality and a commitment to science. That is not only unseemly but also compromises students’ education.
[...] Stanford embraces a view of agricultural sustainability that came into fashion in the 1980s and 1990s, was flawed then, and is even more obviously so now. The university is all about "science" for academic research, but when it comes to digging below the surface and challenging their students to think outside the box, political correctness reigns—more about the university’s encouragement of anti-scientific views and practices in Part 2 of this series... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: Stanford University, which consistently ranks among the top U.S. colleges and universities, is one of the great research institutions in the world. But it also harbors a profound paradox — superb science in academic departments but often uncritically embracing trendy notions that contradict its well-earned reputation as a cutting-edge, science-grounded institution.
Hardly a month passes without news of a genuinely significant breakthrough in some field of science or technology. [...] But a few Stanford professors have not distinguished themselves well during the COVID-19 pandemic...
[...] Now it appears that Stanford’s reputation is about to take another hit. Several scientific articles coauthored by its president, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne, in prestigious journals are being reviewed for possible professional misconduct
[...] And then there is the Orwellian "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative," which Stanford's political correctness mavens published last year.
Aside from the COVID-related shortcomings, the university president’s vicissitudes, and the asinine display of political correctness, there are systematic, long-standing, anti-scientific tendencies at Stanford that receive little attention. Often, the university allows its relentless virtue signaling to overwhelm rationality and a commitment to science. That is not only unseemly but also compromises students’ education.
[...] Stanford embraces a view of agricultural sustainability that came into fashion in the 1980s and 1990s, was flawed then, and is even more obviously so now. The university is all about "science" for academic research, but when it comes to digging below the surface and challenging their students to think outside the box, political correctness reigns—more about the university’s encouragement of anti-scientific views and practices in Part 2 of this series... (MORE - missing details)