The question in the second box re: prof cert or licensure reveals one of the pernicious aspects of all this nonsense. Education as job training matters more than education as engagement with the world and its possibilities. It also locates determination of learning & expertise beyond the faculty.

Biology departments go through this every few decades when someone local politician decides you should get academic credit for writing about creationism on your biology final because personal beliefs are sacrosanct things that education should never require you to critically examine.

The particulars of this weird situation aside, often there is a lazy appeal to "viewpoint diversity" that boils down to "all ideas are equally worthy of merit and discussion," and that is pretty much the opposite of what academia is about.

Hard to think of anyone who with so few words gave so much cover to eugenics and racism in general, including the idea that humanitarian aid is a waste, and then gave it all a pathetic, self-pitying smell of heroic truth-telling martyr, all using his gold medal.

Yeah upper administration stepping in to fire a TA who graded an assignment too harshly and then issuing press releases about it is totally normal.

I reserve that term for really cool priests.

I've definitely heard the idea before, not sure if it was called exactly that.

Even better, the wrong answer pushed them to work harder and harder on the problem because every1 intuited it had to be wrong. Not exactly how we typically present hypothesis testing and falsification 😅.

Always a good reminder that you can follow hypothetico-deductive model to a t and still be super wrong because of limits on observational knowledge and instruments.

pre-19th c. stellar parallax experiments are one of my fav examples of productive wrongness. Very well designed experiments that could not give the correct result because of ancillary hypotheses about how far away stars are.

2/2 link:

Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

The right demonizes the recipients, yet this is basically corporate welfare and a market inefficiency that could be resolved by requiring companies to pay employees a living wage.