Needless suffering / call a Mexican
Untrained faculty mentors inflict needless graduate-student suffering. Global “you suck” judgments are not pedagogy. The author offers to listen.
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Gays, Islam, and the Virtues of Cognition (Updated)
Polls, not sermons, settle whether Muslim societies accept homosexuality. Most do not; executions are real. Ideology that denies the data abandons reality.
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Haidt’s certainty-word counts and Harris’s moral science both miss how bias works. Shared blind spots survive peer review when almost everyone shares them.
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