Academic integrity: turning point in its defence?
The Spectator interviews The National Association of Scholars
A ‘symbolic’ moment for a counter-Woke offensive
I just finished listening to today’s interview. My eyes have been opened. I had no idea in the US there exists an organisation fighting against the destruction of academic integrity in universities, and that it is led by an apparently cool-headed and fair-minded scholar with abundant knowledge of the problem, a determined outlook, and a sharp strategic mind. For academics it may be a trumpeting herald of a more hopeful year. Could a ‘scientific objectivity’ counter-revolution be underway?
Freddie Gray interviews Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars. Unfortunately there is no transcript so I cannot pick out the highlights. The discussion is wide ranging, starting off with Gay's resignation, plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty, etc. The meaty parts begin about 10 minutes in.
The background story of how woke activists become employed as ideologically aligned academics under ‘discipline’ headings such as Cultural Studies, Hispanic Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, etc. and then strategically set about ending the careers of tenured academics who have social science backgrounds and stand up for scholastic integrity and intellectual freedom and objectivity and are therefore accused of ‘lack of collegiality’, dissent from orthodoxy, and being ‘a danger to the community’ is personally only too familiar to me. I rarely get an opportunity to hear it told.
My thanks to the The Spectator … and conservative Condorito
Dr Michael G. Heller
