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How the study of intelligence is crippled by ideology .
Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould effect, and unexpected forces” by Michael A. Woodley and others chronicles an intellectual culture in collapse and a poisonous climate in higher education that has rendered facts irrelevant. “Facts are stubborn things,” said John Adams. “Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” Unfortunately, wishes, inclinations, and above all passion blind many to the facts. So it is with the study of intelligence, the authors report. “Unlike most academics,” they write, “scientists in this field often find themselves in the court of public opinion merely for carrying out their work, largely or entirely because their findings have a tendency to collide with certain deeply held moral and political beliefs.”
Forbidden Research - American Renaissance
Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould effect, and unexpected forces” by Michael A. Woodley and others chronicles an intellectual culture in collapse and a poisonous climate in higher education that has rendered facts irrelevant. “Facts are stubborn things,” said John Adams. “Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” Unfortunately, wishes, inclinations, and above all passion blind many to the facts. So it is with the study of intelligence, the authors report. “Unlike most academics,” they write, “scientists in this field often find themselves in the court of public opinion merely for carrying out their work, largely or entirely because their findings have a tendency to collide with certain deeply held moral and political beliefs.”
Forbidden Research - American Renaissance
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