Unsafe Science
Lee Jussim, Nate Honeycutt, Patrick J. Wolf, Joe Forgas, Luke Conway, Danit Sarah, John McMillian, Roy, Joachim I. Krueger, Hrishikesh Joshi, Lawrence Michael Eppard, Martin Heesacker, Brian P. Higley, Valeria PrudnikovaSocial science, common sense, and skepticism applied to controversial topics, and occasional personal takes and twists.
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The Day Science Died
This is another guest post by Luke Conway. You can find his first here:
Lucian (Luke) Gideon Conway, III is Professor of Psychology at Grove City College. Luke was one of the first academics to break through social psychology's denial of t...
The Sayings of Hoca Camide
Minerva Fighting Mars, 1771, Jacques-Louis David
When I told Hoca Camide that a collection of his early work was published on Professor Jussim’s “Unsafe Science” substack (Camide, 2025), Hoca said, “Why can’t it just be a ‘stack’? I feel s...
Lest They Forget
As the excesses of the Great Awokening circa 2015-2024 fade into the background, people will both forget and deny how bizarre, insane, and destructive it got.
Your wish, trash-panda, is my command. This post is a mostly pictorial document...
0≠0 2.0: The IAT is NOT a Clean Measure of Associations (Let Alone "Implicit Bias")
Old and New Evidence Reviewed
This post is in two parts:
2+2=5? A Postmodern Odyssey
Hieronymous Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, late 15th century.
At the height of The Great Awokening, there was a Twitter kerfluffle when a Harvard grad in stats declared that 2+2=5 (or, at least, that it can).
He now has over 150k fol...
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Social Psychologist
Experimental social psychologist studying higher education, focusing on topics including political bias, free speech, scientific integrity, and ideological diversity.
Dr. Patrick J. Wolf is a Distinguished Professor of Education Policy & the 21st Century Endowed Chair in School Choice in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. His Ph.D. is from Harvard University (1995).
Scientia Professor of Psychology at UNSW (area: experimental social psychology). See also https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/joe-forgas and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paul_Forgas .
Jesus above all. I oppose authoritarianism on every side. Author of Liberal Bullies: What Psychology Teaches Us about the Left's Authoritarian Problem.
I am a computer scientist, a social psychologist, and most importantly, a shaliach. PhD candidate at Rutgers and researcher at NCRI, studying foreign influence operations and fighting for our national security.
Official Substack of John McMillian. Historian at Georgia State University. Companion of Foner (the dog). Books: @SimonBooks, @OxUniPress, @thenewpress. Bylines: @washingtonpost, @cityjournal, @theatlantic, @bostonglobe, @TheTLS, @wsj, and more.
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Staying away from academic fashions, I have studied inductive reasoning, social dilemmas, (ir)rationality & (un)happiness, collaborating with friends & colleagues in the old continent.
Philosophy professor at the University of Arizona. Author of Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind (2021). Writing about morality, free inquiry, higher education, and more.
Director, Connors Institute for Nonpartisan Research & Civic Engagement at Shippensburg University (connorsinstitute.org)
Psychology professor emeritus, spouse, father, jogger, cross fitter, wake surfer, foodie. Aghast at Trump 2.0.
Dr. Brian P. Higley has taught and consulted at various universities. Dr. Higley developed H2O-centered education, which emphasizes the integration of learning science into the practice of classroom management.
Currently at USA TODAY Co. and formerly with the United Nations, Valeria explores leadership, workplace culture, organizational psychology, and personal growth. Working with Top Workplaces across the nation.
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