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'''Academic freedom''' refers to a broad system of intellectual independence that enables genuine innovation, dissent, and cross-disciplinary thought.  
'''Academic freedom''' refers to a broad system of intellectual independence that enables genuine innovation, dissent, and cross-disciplinary thought.  


Eric Weinstein sees Academic Freedom as a civilizational issue: without the ability to question orthodoxy, societies lose the capacity for self-correction and innovation.
Eric Weinstein sees Academic Freedom as a civilizational issue: without the ability to question orthodoxy and do original work on high-leverage, high-risk problems, societies lose the capacity for self-correction and innovation.


== On X ==
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|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about academic freedom, quashed as it was by the rennegade Boskin Commission idiocy.
|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about '''academic freedom''', quashed as it was by the rennegade [[Boskin Commission]] idiocy.
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|content=What few people admit is that opposing  "String Theory", "The Great Moderation", "Scientist Shortages" etc...leads to excommunication.
|content=What few people admit is that opposing  "[[String Theory]]", "[[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]]", "[[Labor Shortages|Scientist Shortages]]" etc...leads to excommunication.
|timestamp=8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & @NSF partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.
|content=The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & [[National Science Foundation|@NSF]] partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?
|content=Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] dependent scientists self-defend?
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Moral: We appear to be caught in loops of our own creation. If so, conventional moves will continue to produce this cycling around the drain. It is time to consider more exotic moves to pull ourselves out.  
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: We appear to be caught in loops of our own creation. If so, conventional moves will continue to produce this cycling around the drain. It is time to consider more exotic moves to pull ourselves out.  


We can no longer afford to fill the world w/ sheep, NPCs & followers.
We can no longer afford to fill the world w/ sheep, NPCs & followers.
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|content=BTW, what matters here is that Rolling Stone is mainstream enough that they are unlikely to be fully ignored. As this account was when repeatedly bringing up Epstein as a construct of the IC…
|content=BTW, what matters here is that Rolling Stone is mainstream enough that they are unlikely to be fully ignored. As this account was when repeatedly bringing up [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] as a construct of the IC…
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|content=Wait. Jeffrey Epstein was connected to the Intelligence Community?
|content=Wait. [[Jeffrey Epstein]] was connected to the Intelligence Community?


Thank you @RollingStone!!! Can we finally get to the point where we are asking why THERE HAS BEEN TOTAL COOPERATION of the Press with what is likely a **TOTALY** UNETHICAL IC OPERATION?🙏
Thank you @RollingStone!!! Can we finally get to the point where we are asking why THERE HAS BEEN TOTAL COOPERATION of the Press with what is likely a **TOTALY** UNETHICAL IC OPERATION?🙏
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|content=I want '''academic freedom''' on this platform @jack. It takes too long for the normies and the press to get to the truth. Your @TwitterSafety just isn’t good enough. This account was taking HUGE risk to talk about Epstein and intelligence.  
|content=I want [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]] on this platform @jack. It takes too long for the normies and the press to get to the truth. Your @TwitterSafety just isn’t good enough. This account was taking HUGE risk to talk about [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] and intelligence.  


Don’t ever think of throttling me again.
Don’t ever think of throttling me again.
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|timestamp=3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2021
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|content=X) Loss of '''Academic Freedom''' across the board in Academe.
|content=X) Loss of [[Academic Freedom]] across the board in Academe.


Y) Loss of the Lancet and other publications as trusted non-political sources of fact.
Y) Loss of the Lancet and other publications as trusted non-political sources of fact.
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Z) The true nature of @EcoHealthNYC w its relationship to @doddtra & Dr A. Fauci.
Z) The true nature of @EcoHealthNYC w its relationship to @doddtra & Dr A. Fauci.


Moral: much of this 'ambiguity' is serving the few.
[[Morals|Moral]]: much of this 'ambiguity' is serving the few.
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A) COVID's origin.
A) COVID's origin.


B) The Jeffrey Epstein story.
B) The [[Jeffrey Epstein]] story.


C) UAP.
C) UAP.
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|content=I) Negative impacts of Trade known to have been suppressed.
|content=I) Negative impacts of Trade known to have been suppressed.


J) Adulteration of BLS CPI measure of inflation.
J) Adulteration of BLS [[CPI]] measure of inflation.


K) Negative economic impacts of Immigration.
K) Negative economic impacts of Immigration.
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|timestamp=5:17 AM · Feb 7, 2022
|timestamp=5:17 AM · Feb 7, 2022
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|content=I spent a lot of time in beautiful homes and second homes of older research scientists as a grad student.
We should be embarrassed how far into [[The Precariat|precariousness]] we pushed Generation X & Millennials. Our entire economy is now bet on bargain science provided way below market.#Enough
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|content=Keep your mouth shut or lose job security.
Sometimes @skdh drives me nuts. Usually, it’s in a good way. Can no one  with money or power fix this situation? No? Of course not. You want science slaves. How’s that working in virology?
Somebody get our scientists wealth & [[Academic Freedom|freedom]].
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|content=Of course the vast majority of people who work in the foundations of physics want me to stop pointing out they are working on pseudoscience. Of course I know that this means I will never get a permanent position.
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|timestamp=11:09 AM · May 13, 2025
|timestamp=11:09 AM · May 13, 2025
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|content=It’s as if we, the U.S., hate being the worlds premier homegrown scientific community. All it takes is reversing self inflicted damage. That’s it. That’s all.
We seem to hate our own scientists.
It makes no sense. At least to me.
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|content=Yes. I’m saying that the [[Jim Simons]], [[Richard Feynman]], [[Jim Watson]], [[Steven Weinberg]], [[Sidney Coleman]], [[Ken Arrow]], [[Linus Pauling]], [[Isadore Singer]], [[Joshua Lederberg]], [[Steve Smale]], [[Paul Samuelson]], [[Mark Ptashne]], [[John Milnor]], model of homegrown American scientific genius is being destroyed.
|timestamp=8:17 AM · Nov 15, 2025
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|content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesn’t seem it.
Science needs [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]. It needs resources. It needs independence.
Fauci and Collins would have been impossible if we were healthy.
It is not safe to make scientists into mere employees.
It’s way too dangerous.
|timestamp=8:17 AM · Nov 15, 2025
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* [[FU Money]]
* [[FU Money]]
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
* [[Horse-and-Rider Problem]]
* [[IMMACT90]]
* [[Immigration]]
* [[Immigration]]
* [[Labor Shortages]]
* [[Labor Shortages]]
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
* [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)]]
* [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)]]
* [[National Science Foundation]]
* [[National Science Foundation]]
* [[Nothing Burger]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Peer Injunction]]
* [[Peer Review]]
* [[Peer Review]]
* [[Scientific Method]]
* [[Scientific Method]]
* [[The Precariat]]
* [[The Precariat]]
* [[Welfare Queens in White Lab Coats]]


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[[Category:Concepts]]
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