I’m sorry I love all of my faculty friends at ND but also

*know.

alas, thats a gnarly typo.

kevin were the party of experimentation dont knock it until youve -- hello? kevin?

The Galloway onslaught on Instagram over the last month has been miserable. He’s everywhere.

The sooner the Clintons become a footnote to history the better. Read the room and go away.

Ruminating on why this makes me almost irrationally irritated: Haidt is, by academic standards, fantastically well-resourced. If he wanted to actually conduct meaningful, original, theory-driven empirical research he could do so easily. But he doesnt. Not on this subject. MFT? Yes. This? He punts.

it is fine to cosplay in areas for which you arent an expert. i have a paper i dearly love with a UG student on race and judicial public opinion. im a little versed in the latter, but don't do much on the former. you will not catch me engaging in stolen valor once its published.

he can have half-credit for this paywalled piece in Nature Human Behavior, which is simply a re-analysis of others' data

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Haidt is well-known for his role in growing moral foundations theory. he published an impressive body of peer-reviewed research in this area. as such, he should know better than to serially claim social-psychological expertise on a subject for which he is -- generously -- a lightweight.

the cardinal academic sin -- aside from plagiarizing and faking data -- is stylizing yourself as an expert for a subject for which you are not a primary mover. you gain the credential of academic expert when you can associate your research output with a given subject.

basically everything haidt has written about these subjects involves stringing together disparate studies to make analytical (causal) claims. theres nothing wrong with writing literature reviews, but "experts" conduct their own research.

spelunking in haidt's google scholar since 2015 is wild.

In sum: Jonathan Haidt has neither personally conducted a vigorous original research program nor has he run a lab sponsoring research on the relationship bw social media use and mental health. He has masqueraded as an expert in an area for which he does not have the requisite academic credentials.

Haidt has published several reviews, a bunch of gunk opinion pieces, and a few peer-reviewed articles on MFT and ideology (diversity). His claim to the mantle of social psychology informed practice is disingenuous, at best, and a flat-out misrepresentation at worst.

Look at this absolute unit

Lmao as god intended

(Don’t tell god)