The Lysenkoization of *Nature*

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WSJ: What They Teach Teachers in Grad School

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I've read that undergraduate courses in education aren't much better. Ed schools are renown for low standards and politicized curricula. My university's Ed school kept its BLM badge prominently displayed on its website for years--until we got a governor and a President who began pushing back against Woketarianism. A casual perusal of its website still reveals a decidedly leftward lean. For example: an announcement of a new children's book by two faculty, which is described, in part, thusly: "a series of children’s books that explores how students can learn mathematical concepts conceptually through a global perspective." There is, of course, no good reason to force globalism into kids' math classes. Imagine the reception of a kids' math book on the importance of enforcing national borders, or of a free market economy...

Apparently one of the most-assigned books in Ed courses is Pablo Frieri's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. (Also the 3rd-most-cited book in the social sciences). The book is just as bad as it sounds. It's basically a book on how to turn teaching into Marxist indoctrination. (Also, it reads as if it were written by a mediocre high school student.)

McCarthy: Taking Venezuela’s Oil: If America Becomes a Rogue, the Future Is Dark

Trump the anti-hero strikes again...

Maybe for the better, maybe for the worse.

Becket Adams: The Professional Fact-Check Is Dead

Word.

   The Washington Post "Fact-Checker" was just more Washington Post.

   I went to a talk by three journalism/SComm profs at my university ca. late 2019(?). They all sang from the same hymnal: trust the MSM and the fact-checkers. Afterward, I went up and showed them the search I had done on Russian "collusion" at one of the big fact-checkers...all ten results on the first page ruled that Trump was wrong...eight of those ten had been proven wrong in the previous couple of months e.g. by the Mueller Report. Turned out that two of the three were late for meetings...

   The decline and fall of Snopes was particularly sad, I thought. 

Will Lawrence (MI): Yet Another Dem Candidate Trying to Evade his Extremist Positions

Eliminate police and prisons. Oh and: the nuclear family...and the single-family home...the sources of all evil in the world...

Listen, sane, sensible people don't take up and throw off positions overnight.

This isn't a matter of Lawrence just changing his mind.

His assertions of his radical positions were passionate and freely-made...his retractions tepid and clearly forced by considerations of electability.

We've all gotten mad and said things we rejected in a cool hour. But it's obvious that the wave of woke leftists suddenly retracting the views they enthusiastically espoused for a decade isn't motivated by a sudden outbreak of sanity on the left.

They still have the same basic sentiments and principles they had last year.

And even if they publicly repudiate those positions to get elected, they'll still be legislating as far to the left as they think they can get away with.

John R. Puri: Trump Says More Insane Things About the Economy

facepalm

Ms. Wiles...for the love of God...take his phone away...

Use physical force if you have to...or park a big jamming van outside the White House...

But you've gotta do something...

*Nature* Beclowns Itself Yet Again--This Time Re: Jason Arday

This is a bit surprising even to those of us who have come to expect bullshit from Nature editorials...