Academic freedom, intellectual diversity, and research integrity may be at all-time lows right now, as plagiarism and fake research scandals have rocked academia for years.
American higher education’s credibility crisis is self-inflicted. According to the article, Gallup found that only 38 percent of adults retain “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in colleges and universities, while roughly one-third of respondents blamed partisan bias or indoctrination—the leading cause of distrust, even ahead of tuition costs. That verdict should […] The post Americans Lose Faith in Higher Education appeared first on StoneZone .
American higher education’s credibility crisis is self-inflicted. According to the article, Gallup found that only 38 percent of adults retain “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in colleges and universities, while roughly one-third of respondents blamed partisan bias or indoctrination—the leading cause of distrust, even ahead of tuition costs. That verdict should surprise no one considering how universities have served as the incubator for the woke plague. Universities have allowed ideological conformity to replace intellectual inquiry, staffing departments with overwhelmingly liberal faculties while marginalizing conservative, libertarian, and dissenting perspectives. The result is not education but an echo…Open
No Corbetteer worth his or her salt would be surprised to learn that someone would be indefinitely blocked from Wikipedia for daring to suggest that Wikipedians respect intellectual diversity. But even the most battle-hardened, world-weary Corbettean cynic might be surprised to learn that that's exactly what happened to the co-founder of Wikipedia himself. Don't miss this fascinating conversation as James discusses the nitty-gritty details of this latest act of online censorship and Wikigatekeeping with none other than Larry Sanger himself. SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://www.corbettreport.com/wikipedia-has-indefinitely-blocked-larry-sanger/ ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SHOW NOTES WITH LINKS TO ALL OF THE ARTICLES, VIDEOS AND WEBSITES MENTIONED?…