Get out of my lab

Make sure that you have a uniform standard of scholarship, and not a form of scholarship that is friendly to activism. You have to make sure that activist scholarship is recognized as something other than pure inquiry. I mean, are you capable of disseminating a finding that you're very upset to find? That's a prerequisite for having professorial privileges, in terms of tenure and academic freedom. I suspect there's very little of that these days. People that truly go in without— In the sciences, there's tons of it! Yeah? Yeah. And, you know, this is my basic take on universities, is that the heart and soul of a great research university is its hard core disciplines. We've done much more in those disciplines than anybody else. And so “who are you and get out of my lab”, is an important principle. And as long as we have something that keeps bad scholarship from getting in from, you know, bringing the principle of explosion, as we talked about before, into the sciences, we should start exporting scientific notions of rigor. And we should be holding debates between disciplines to make sure that everything is of a piece, rather than saying, okay, well, you have no wage gap and you have a wage gap. We don't even know if it's the same word. So I think that it's a bad move. Instead, what we should do is we should make sure that all of these—and by the way, if gender studies has figured out some things that the biologists don't know, we have to take our lumps in biology. It's not it's not a there's no fix in that game.

- Eric Weinstein on The Rubin Report

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• Interoperability and Exclusion
• Intersectional Shakedown