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"It has been the explicit goal of post-modernity to reject reason and evidence: they want a “new paradigm” of knowledge. Should it come as any surprise to us, then, that their journals will publish explicit nonsense?" quillette.com/2018/10/01/the

It's fair enough that most of these fields are garbage. So is psychology. So are most other fields that are held up as counterpoints. Modern science is in a bad place.

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I had in mind a more ambitious project. Pointing out that “grievance studies” fields are mostly nonsense is shooting fish in a barrel. We know that, for instance, “cognitive neuroscience” is also largely bollocks: biorxiv.org/content/early/

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Scientific standards, like the self, may be mostly a dream.