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To be clear I didn’t use the phrase “overwhelming majority” at all. Please share a source on the claim that red/rural America’s attitude toward universities is
by ethanbond 3y ago
To be clear I didn’t use the phrase “overwhelming majority” at all.
Please share a source on the claim that red/rural America’s attitude toward universities is meaningfully influenced by the replication crisis. They don’t like universities because they’re responsible for brain drain (as evidenced in their economies and demographic outflows), and liberalization (as evidenced by the “anti-woke” narrative consuming a huge portion of national airtime).
Please also share the same regarding the opioid epidemic and distrust of pharmaceutical companies. Hard to quantify “meaningful influence” but given that you’re jumping to this explanation as opposed to COVID, some indication they’re close to similar impacts would be reasonable. Otherwise of course it’d be a “generous” interpretation to say distrust is caused by opioids.
- ethanbond 3y agoToo late to edit: It’s hard to find data on public perception of the replication crisis but in Germany, fewer than 25% of the public had even heard of the crisis. I don’t see why that number should be dramatically higher in the US. It does no one any favors to steelman their arguments into things they don’t believe or don’t care about. If you solve the replication crisis but leave the extreme concentration of wealth and power into universities, you will not have solved any problem that red/rural America cares about.