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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 24/09/2026
Bias as a four-letter word
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Bias as a four-letter word
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 11/09/2026
Decolonized therapy • May we have an opinion?
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Decolonized therapy
May we have an opinion?
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 03/09/2026
The Day Science Died • As Dr. Fauci pleads the Fifth, I am still waiting for an apology from my former colleagues for calling Ivy League research about COVID “conspiracy theories”
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The Day Science Died
As Dr. Fauci pleads the Fifth, I am still waiting for an apology from my former colleagues for calling Ivy League research about COVID “conspiracy theories”
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 20/08/2026
The Sayings of Hoca Camide • The Early-Ish Work
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The Sayings of Hoca Camide
The Early-Ish Work
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 16/08/2026
Lest They Forget • The Great Awokening in Headlines, Photos, Video and Data
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Lest They Forget
The Great Awokening in Headlines, Photos, Video and Data
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 10/08/2026
0≠0 2.0: The IAT is NOT a Clean Measure of Associations (Let Alone "Implicit Bias") • Old and New Evidence Reviewed
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0≠0 2.0: The IAT is NOT a Clean Measure of Associations (Let Alone "Implicit Bias")
Old and New Evidence Reviewed
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 31/07/2026
When 0≠0: IAT=0 is NOT "Unbiased"; IAT>0 is NOT Anti-Black Bias • Why Everyone Doing IAT Research Should Empirically Identify the IAT Point of Egalitarianism and How to do It
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When 0≠0: IAT=0 is NOT "Unbiased"; IAT>0 is NOT Anti-Black Bias
Why Everyone Doing IAT Research Should Empirically Identify the IAT Point of Egalitarianism and How to do It
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 26/07/2026
What's the point of academic freedom? • Re-evaluating a sacred ideal
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What's the point of academic freedom?
Re-evaluating a sacred ideal
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 18/07/2026
New Paper Debunks Classic Claims about Implicit Bias • Pre-Registered Adversarial Collaboration: Gold Standard Stuff
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New Paper Debunks Classic Claims about Implicit Bias
Pre-Registered Adversarial Collaboration: Gold Standard Stuff
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 02/07/2026
Recent Social Science Finds Little or No Anti-Black Discrimination • Some studies find small anti-Black biases, some find no bias at all, and some find pro-Black biases
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Recent Social Science Finds Little or No Anti-Black Discrimination
Some studies find small anti-Black biases, some find no bias at all, and some find pro-Black biases
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 30/06/2026
Introduction to Special Series on Racial Discrimination and Implicit Bias
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Introduction to Special Series on Racial Discrimination and Implicit Bias
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 24/06/2026
Traitorous Education
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Traitorous Education
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 17/06/2026
Rigor or Ruin • Sociology’s Reckoning Has Arrived
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Rigor or Ruin
Sociology’s Reckoning Has Arrived
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 03/06/2026
Inside a Campus Civil Rights Investigation
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Inside a Campus Civil Rights Investigation
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 24/05/2026
Klaus Fiedler: In Memoriam • In memory of a brilliant scholar, and generous and kind person, who passed away on May 14, 2026.
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Klaus Fiedler: In Memoriam
In memory of a brilliant scholar, and generous and kind person, who passed away on May 14, 2026.
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 18/05/2026
Free Speech Lessons In COVID’s Wake
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Free Speech Lessons In COVID’s Wake
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 15/05/2026
FY27 Science Budget: A Fuller Picture of Implications for Social Psychology and Beyond • Trump is not killing science and not even killing social psychology (though he did propose eliminating NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economics Science Directorate).
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FY27 Science Budget: A Fuller Picture of Implications for Social Psychology and Beyond
Trump is not killing science and not even killing social psychology (though he did propose eliminating NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economics Science Directorate).
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 05/05/2026
Justice denied? • The strange case of a disappearing Oxford professor…
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Justice denied?
The strange case of a disappearing Oxford professor…
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 27/04/2026
The Triumph of Ego Depletion • The Real Story Behind One of Social Psychology’s Most Replicated Findings
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The Triumph of Ego Depletion
The Real Story Behind One of Social Psychology’s Most Replicated Findings
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 20/04/2026
Adversarial Collaborations Usually Produce Findings That Require Walking Back Social Justice Narratives • My Response to a Question at the SPSP Panel on "Is SPSP a Healthy Organization?"
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Adversarial Collaborations Usually Produce Findings That Require Walking Back Social Justice Narratives
My Response to a Question at the SPSP Panel on "Is SPSP a Healthy Organization?"
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 17/04/2026
In Defense of SPSP - and of its Dissenters • Anne Wilson's Talk at SPSP's Symposium on "Is SPSP a Healthy Organization?"
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In Defense of SPSP - and of its Dissenters
Anne Wilson's Talk at SPSP's Symposium on "Is SPSP a Healthy Organization?"
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 16/04/2026
Quantifying the Health of SPSP • Nate Honeycutt's talk at the SPSP panel, "Is SPSP a Healthy Organization"?
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Quantifying the Health of SPSP
Nate Honeycutt's talk at the SPSP panel, "Is SPSP a Healthy Organization"?
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 15/04/2026
The Scientific Method Is Not Racist: Choosing Between SPSP's Two Faces • A Transcript of Luke's 2026 SPSP Speech
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The Scientific Method Is Not Racist: Choosing Between SPSP's Two Faces
A Transcript of Luke's 2026 SPSP Speech
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 07/03/2026
The Singeing of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Beard • We Tried to Warn Them
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The Singeing of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Beard
We Tried to Warn Them
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 15/02/2026
Truth, Trust, and the Case for Viewpoint Diversity • Misplaced arguments against intellectual pluralism
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Truth, Trust, and the Case for Viewpoint Diversity
Misplaced arguments against intellectual pluralism
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 02/02/2026
Peer Review of Microaggression Scholarship is an Unmitigated Disaster • Did They all Just "Forget" that Cause Cannot be Inferred from a Simple Correlation?
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Peer Review of Microaggression Scholarship is an Unmitigated Disaster
Did They all Just "Forget" that Cause Cannot be Inferred from a Simple Correlation?
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 29/01/2026
We Must be Doing Something Right • Propaganda Scholar Denounces Us on X for Developing a Method to Reveal Propaganda Scholarship
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We Must be Doing Something Right
Propaganda Scholar Denounces Us on X for Developing a Method to Reveal Propaganda Scholarship
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 26/01/2026
Using AI to Reveal Bad, Biased, and Bullshit Published Scholarship • Claude Slays a Vampire, An AI-Enhanced Wooden Stake Essay
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Using AI to Reveal Bad, Biased, and Bullshit Published Scholarship
Claude Slays a Vampire, An AI-Enhanced Wooden Stake Essay
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 24/01/2026
Part 2, Breaking the bureaucratic mold of instruction • Experimenting with Teaching
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Part 2, Breaking the bureaucratic mold of instruction
Experimenting with Teaching
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 22/01/2026
Part I: How to Succeed in Business & Econ Teaching Without Sweating Too Many Bullets • Growth in Seminars
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Part I: How to Succeed in Business & Econ Teaching Without Sweating Too Many Bullets
Growth in Seminars
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 16/01/2026
How to Tell Whether Trump is Hitler
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How to Tell Whether Trump is Hitler
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 10/01/2026
“Focus like a laser on merit!” • My Interview with The German Skeptics
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“Focus like a laser on merit!”
My Interview with The German Skeptics
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 26/12/2025
Unsafe Science Retrospective • Top 5 Posts of the Year AND Top 10 of All Time
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Unsafe Science Retrospective
Top 5 Posts of the Year AND Top 10 of All Time
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 22/12/2025
Sociology's Pervasively Dubious Assumptions
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Sociology's Pervasively Dubious Assumptions
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 14/12/2025
Is Internal Reform of Academia Possible? • Rebuttals of the "Can't do" attitudes among some reformers
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Is Internal Reform of Academia Possible?
Rebuttals of the "Can't do" attitudes among some reformers
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 28/11/2025
Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 21/11/2025
The 1915 AAUP Warned the AAUP Not to Become the AAUP of 2025 • A Tale of Forgotten Wisdom
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The 1915 AAUP Warned the AAUP Not to Become the AAUP of 2025
A Tale of Forgotten Wisdom
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 08/11/2025
Fear Equity Actually Can Motivate Academics to Publicly Endorse Academic Freedom • A Case Study and Small Victory within my Department
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Fear Equity Actually Can Motivate Academics to Publicly Endorse Academic Freedom
A Case Study and Small Victory within my Department
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 04/11/2025
How Dare They Empirically Assess "White Privilege" Narratives by Focusing on Economic and Educational Outcomes • Peer Review Rejects a Good Paper for Bad Reasons (Again)
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How Dare They Empirically Assess "White Privilege" Narratives by Focusing on Economic and Educational Outcomes
Peer Review Rejects a Good Paper for Bad Reasons (Again)
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 16/10/2025
Research on Microaggressions and Their Impacts Assesses Neither Microaggressions nor Their Impacts • Draft of An Article on Verge of Journal Submission
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Research on Microaggressions and Their Impacts Assesses Neither Microaggressions nor Their Impacts
Draft of An Article on Verge of Journal Submission
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 04/10/2025
The Threat to Free Speech and Academic Freedom from the Govt Right • Republican Govt officials have pressured colleges to punish faculty for speech they find offensive.
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The Threat to Free Speech and Academic Freedom from the Govt Right
Republican Govt officials have pressured colleges to punish faculty for speech they find offensive.
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 24/09/2025
Academic Survivors and Thrivers After Cancelation Attacks • Where are they now?
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Academic Survivors and Thrivers After Cancelation Attacks
Where are they now?
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 26/08/2025
Reviewing Nature's Reviews of Our Proposal to Replicate The Famous Moss-Racusin et al Study on Sex Bias in Science Hiring • Part I of a Series within a Series: They Told Us the Study Could Not be Replicated
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Reviewing Nature's Reviews of Our Proposal to Replicate The Famous Moss-Racusin et al Study on Sex Bias in Science Hiring
Part I of a Series within a Series: They Told Us the Study Could Not be Replicated
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 20/08/2025
New Vindication for the Regnerus Same-Sex Parenting Study • Widely denounced study holds up well under rigorous robustness analyses
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New Vindication for the Regnerus Same-Sex Parenting Study
Widely denounced study holds up well under rigorous robustness analyses
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 14/08/2025
Horror in Fact and Fantasy • No, this is not an anti-woke diatribe; its a list of podcasts I love
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Horror in Fact and Fantasy
No, this is not an anti-woke diatribe; its a list of podcasts I love
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 06/08/2025
From Heterodox to Helpless • Why Internal-Reform Is Not Enough, and the Case for a Veritas-Narcan for Higher Education
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From Heterodox to Helpless
Why Internal-Reform Is Not Enough, and the Case for a Veritas-Narcan for Higher Education
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 04/08/2025
The Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science
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The Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 30/07/2025
More Evidence of Biases Against Men than Against Women in Faculty Hiring • A Compendium of All Experimental Studies of Faculty Hiring
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More Evidence of Biases Against Men than Against Women in Faculty Hiring
A Compendium of All Experimental Studies of Faculty Hiring
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 23/07/2025
Why I Signed On To the Manhattan Institute Call to Reform Academia
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Why I Signed On To the Manhattan Institute Call to Reform Academia
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Unsafe Science @unsafescience.skystack.xyz · 10/07/2025
Diversity is the Inverse of University • Special report from the UK
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Diversity is the Inverse of University
Special report from the UK
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