“While scholars can, of course, be activists and activists can be scholars, combining these two roles is liable to create problems and, when a political stance is taught at university, it is apt to become an orthodoxy, which cannot be questioned.” TheoryTeachersObjectivityPolitical CorrectnessRelativismAcademicsActivist Scholarship Author:Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
“It used to be considered a failure of teaching or scholarship to work from a particular ideological standpoint. Academics were incentivized...by knowing that other scholars could - and would - point out evidence of bias or motivating reasoning and counter it with evidence and argument. Teachers could consider their attempts at objectivity successful if their students did not know what their political or ideological positions were.” TheoryTeachersObjectivityPolitical CorrectnessRelativismAcademicsActivist Scholarship Author:Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay