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It would be nice to see some STEM-affirmative universities without any x-studies leaching. Professional complainer is a viable career path these days and it sta
by Xuper 8y ago
It would be nice to see some STEM-affirmative universities without any x-studies leaching. Professional complainer is a viable career path these days and it starts at uni.
- collyw 8y agoListening to Jonathan Haidt its pretty scary stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBegL_V6AA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBegL_V6AA
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoListening to Jonathan Haidt its pretty scary stuff. Don't listen to it then. By the way the, UK isn't the same as the US, our problems aren't necessarily the same as yours.
- collyw 8y agoIgnorance is bliss.
- pjc50 8y agoIgnoring fake news from rightwing idealogues is even more bliss.
- TheTrotters 8y agoBut I thought we were talking about Jonathan Haidt?
- TheForumTroll 8y agoI have no idea what you two are talking about. Could you enlighten those of us that don't know?
- purple-again 8y agoSome guy derailed the conversation for no reason. Jonathan Haidt is far from right wing propaganda (though he is heavily focused on morality and religion like many D's). Below is a quick dirty quote from Wikipedia. In chapter 8 of The Righteous Mind, Haidt describes how he began to study political psychology in order to help the Democratic Party win more elections. But in chapter 12 of The Righteous Mind Haidt argues that each of the major political groups – conservatives, progressives, and libertarians—have valuable insights and that truth and good policy emerge from the contest of ideas. Since 2012 Haidt has referred to himself as a political centrist
- peoplewindow 8y agoHaidt is a psychologist whose research and advocacy has in recent years moved towards political bias in universities, in particular he talks a lot about student and faculty driven morality-based censorship. He started the "Heterodox Academy" which argues for and promotes ideological diversity (i.e. both left and right) in universities.
- gravis7777 8y agoIgnoring fake news from ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶d̶e̶a̶l̶o̶g̶u̶e̶s̶ left wing loons is even more bliss. FTFY
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoDon't listen to the media and you are uninformed, listen to the media and you are misinformed. I know which I prefer.
- collyw 8y agoProbably the media you listen to with an opinion like that.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoDidn't you just post a video to some crackpot on YouTube?
- shawnz 8y ago> Listening to Jonathan Haidt its pretty scary stuff. Because that's what a fear monger does.
- te_chris 8y agoUgh, that's dystopian. There's bullshit on both sides of the university (stem and humanities). They're symbiotic and they need each other and the world desperately needs more people skilled in both. Stephen Hawking doesn't become Stephen Hawking without an awareness and understanding of the humanities.
- dooglius 8y agoYou are generalizing the criticism of "x-studies" to a criticism of the humanities as a whole, which I do not think is what was meant at all.
- lou1306 8y agoNot to mention people like Frege, Russel, Gödel, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, and so on and the impact they had on the foundation of mathematics, theory of language and theoretical CS.
- wastedhours 8y agoHuh? I might have misinterpreted your point, but you might have it backward. Most STEM courses are subsidised by "studies" and humanities. It can cost multiples more to teach a biology student than an English one, and that cost is offset by it being less than fees to teach the latter and more than fees to teach the former. A university would have a hard time having a competitive science department without leaching cash from the business studies faculty.