in heterodox academic circles, haidt is held up as an example of their superior objectivity and rigor. and he really is the best they’ve got! his greatest strength is his ability to flatter the powerful and swindle the public - ThreadSky

caitlinmoriah.bsky.social • 48 days ago

in heterodox academic circles, haidt is held up as an example of their superior objectivity and rigor. and he really is the best they’ve got! his greatest strength is his ability to flatter the powerful and swindle the public

Reposted from Taylor Lorenz

In an interview with PBS, Haidt boosted a false fringe conspiracy about trans youth (basically: IG is turning your kids gay and trans). Two weeks ago, Barack Obama recommended Haidt’s book at the top of his annual reading list.

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mrxdentith.com•48 days ago

People in general tend to underestimate the role of flattery when it comes to finding views “acceptable” but the rich and the powerful seem really susceptible to it…

tahoeboulder.bsky.social•48 days ago

I am so tired of theorists getting so much traction. He's NOT a clinician. He looks at data and theorizes. Data never covers the whole story. Ask us clinicians who work our whole careers with teens.

caitlinmoriah.bsky.social•48 days ago

never forget, this is their heterodox king

gabbklein.bsky.social•48 days ago

It's true. 🥺 I *am* an IQ denier.

infinite-loopy.bsky.social•48 days ago

I am constantly denying those right wing Q people, what are you talking about?

oh.... wait...

caitlinmoriah.bsky.social•48 days ago

a truth so inconvenient it’s not even true

covingtonedu.bsky.social•48 days ago

"Stereotype accuracy deniers"

caitlinmoriah.bsky.social•48 days ago

thanks to the somehow even more embarrassing fully employed academic lee jussim for that idea

tmoney2007.bsky.social•48 days ago

On the left,... a series of strawmen that I have created...

myfreecats.com•47 days ago

"iq deniers" wut?!!

rhacodactylus.bsky.social•48 days ago

ah yes. the right denies evolution because "i didn't come from no monkey" whereas the left denies evolution because they... trust the american society of human genetics when they routinely publish assertions that race is not a biologically meaningful construct

exactly the same, really

cwlj.bsky.social•48 days ago

You must be left wing, denying Haidt's favourite stereotype that guys like him are smart.

sobekhotep97.bsky.social•48 days ago

Ah yes, stereotype deniers are so evil!

Also, i find it so ironic these people claim the left “denies sex differences” and then tries to ban gender affirming care which mitigates and reverses sex differences. Schrödinger’s treatment.