Boston police and the police union also ignored/covered up for a cop/union president who had raped children. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/ex-boston-police-union-pres-charged-with-raping-4-more-children/2183771/. Apparently those bad apples have spoiled the barrel.

I’m familiar with the replication crisis, but I didn’t apply the key insight that a lot of published results, especially the sexiest, most exciting ones, turn out to be flukes. I guess we’ll never know for sure with this one, since I can’t imagine someone would get approval to run this sort of study. But the critiques…

Well damn, I should have read through it more carefully. Thanks for sharing.

There’s at least some reason to think that it’s nothing special about the people who seek out those roles, it’s the role that corrupts the person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment.

Seriously, it’s not like the problem is the physical building. It’s either with the sort of person that wants to work in a prison, or what working in a prison does to a person, or how the institution and culture fail to protect the inmates, but it’s hard to imagine that just relocating the prison to a new building is…

Right, and they’re not even in the majority. I would like to live in a country where laws supported by a majority of Americans (or their representatives) get passed, even if an obstructionist minority doesn’t like it.

I think in any university there’s a huge power imbalance between the professors and the students, but this is just absurd. And my understanding is that he’s faced almost no professional or personal consequences.

Given the boxers involved, everyone losing is the best outcome by far.

I think you’ve cracked it, I don’t see how there could possibly be another expanation.

Maybe there was no time travel, maybe she’s a vampire and was alive back then?

So, going back 11,000 years just to murder someone would seem like a waste of a time machine ... BUT, what if the reason she did that was that the person she killed would otherwise have turned out to be, like, REALLY evil, and actually she saved the whole world by murdering them?

Yes, and I would say that any attempt to tell the whole story of the US is going to be flawed; if people were denied tenure every time their research was imperfect, or open to valid complaints, we wouldn’t have a faculty.

My understanding is that, although McPherson and Wood had complaints about some details around the 1619 project, they also agree about the importance of racism in understanding America’s past and present. I think almost all professional historians do.

Yeah, although I think a lot of other places have been passing these sorts of bills already.

Yeah, I would guess that facts are not a big part of how this guy makes his decisions.

I was thinking the same thing. He shouldn’t have used a student photo, and should have been very selective about the photo he did use (I would choose some wealthy celebrity), but a zoology class should definitely be teaching students that humans are in the animal kingdom.

a third that creates death certificate and burial requirements for both miscarriages and abortions

Maybe nooses just spontaneously generate on Amazon properties. Something in the water.

Fucking gross. If they can prove this, there should be serious consequences for the senior officers. Cops clearly can’t police themselves. It came out a while ago that a head of the Boston police union was promoted and given leadership responsibilities even though it was an open secret that he was a pedophile: https://…

That’s fair and also really encouraging. I shouldn’t have bad-mouthed all parents like that.