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I Hate The Way This World Has Become

A professor talks about the way students reject to discuss certain scientific matters, like heritability of human intelligence, simply because they contradict their beliefs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/self-censorship-campus-bad-science/589969/

This folly will stop at same time, but meanwhile, with such a rampant self-censorship, can any credit be given to college studies?

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4meAndyou · F

Wow. What the article highlights is something of which we have recently become aware: politics and the need to believe a certain way is so ingrained in some college students they will deny long proven scientific truths.

It is difficult to teach those who have been brainwashed. They have become the new flat earth society, in denial of anything and everything that might contradict their internal programming.

And you are correct...they are invalidating their own educations. One wishes they might flunk if they refuse to learn.