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Tripping over the nest of whatever
May. 12th, 2025 10:06 amThis is not a decluttering post.
TIL about the National Association of Scholars, which argues — and I’ve seen this argument at least once before — that we haven’t been making progress in science for a long time and it’s all the fault of the government spending so much money on basic science. (Do not ask me to make it make sense. It does not make sense!) Byrne Hobart produces a very similar argument in the recent book he wrote with Huber. (I don’t recommend it. It sounded interesting when Joe from Odd Lots was talking about it, but once I read the introduction, I realized immediately that I’d gotten sucked into a partisan hatchet job with absolutely no basis in reality, and extremely bankrupt rhetoric).
Anyway. If you track this sort of thing, take a look at the staff at NAS. It’ll clue you in to where these folks find comfort in the academic world. It also explains in part why reading the Chronicle of Higher Education is so infuriating.
These folks are providing the cover for the raw attack on science by our current administration. Occasionally, they get pieces published in places that ought to know better (for example, the Atlantic)(and which manifestly don’t know better). Recognize it. Share the knowledge. A lot of you probably already recognize this crowd from the backlash to cancel culture so this will not be a surprise for you.
TIL about the National Association of Scholars, which argues — and I’ve seen this argument at least once before — that we haven’t been making progress in science for a long time and it’s all the fault of the government spending so much money on basic science. (Do not ask me to make it make sense. It does not make sense!) Byrne Hobart produces a very similar argument in the recent book he wrote with Huber. (I don’t recommend it. It sounded interesting when Joe from Odd Lots was talking about it, but once I read the introduction, I realized immediately that I’d gotten sucked into a partisan hatchet job with absolutely no basis in reality, and extremely bankrupt rhetoric).
Anyway. If you track this sort of thing, take a look at the staff at NAS. It’ll clue you in to where these folks find comfort in the academic world. It also explains in part why reading the Chronicle of Higher Education is so infuriating.
These folks are providing the cover for the raw attack on science by our current administration. Occasionally, they get pieces published in places that ought to know better (for example, the Atlantic)(and which manifestly don’t know better). Recognize it. Share the knowledge. A lot of you probably already recognize this crowd from the backlash to cancel culture so this will not be a surprise for you.