Paul Salon

comfortable, incompetent, professional

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@PhilWMagness pay some respect to the absolute greatest at writing about something which they know nothing about

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@BachmannRudi Very weird to both promote a company promising to make huge share of labor obsolete while also attacking the welfare state... especially if your job is "STRATEGIC futures"... not so strategic

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@cvictordus @BachmannRudi its a joke. "the beatings will continue until moral improves"

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

One of the best things academia has going for it is that despite the dismally low trust the public has in it, it is trusted much more than the public trusts AI and other large tech firms

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

@BachmannRudi lol at this coming from a university professor

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@NewYorker @grok give me your best guess as what this article says

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@DearLeftyFriend you're so close. why are some stories more obscure than others?

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

Arday was a fraud. There are plenty of frauds. A famous one is an economist at Duke. NONE of the people who piled on Arday have said anything about him. The difference is sociology, a black man, and DEI. I dont know which of those mattered most, but at least one did.

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

@kennedybrays I called out their obsession. Which is more than most. They tried to make it about sociology and DEI and a Black guy. There was nothing to defend as far as the plagiarism allegations. But a weeks-long pile on and obsession was unnecessary. Hence why I called it out.

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@akoustov Trying to distinguish concern over academic integrity versus an interest in targeting Black professors/DEI broadly, as some have suggested motivated the pile-on of Arday. Many more, Oxman, Enos, etc did not receive same level of attention. but also there frauds weren't as extreme

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

Absurd. What is the mechanism? You know better than to suggest departments can consolidate around any kind of strategy and execute it

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

One underrated dynamic is that when undergrads walk away from a major because they realize it's useless for getting a job, departments sometimes respond by pumping up political activism, in the hopes that woke students will sign up for the major and preserve their funding levels.

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

You used to be able to say “leftists are saying” - but that became too obviously a strawman. Now the vogue move is to say “Bluesky is saying”— still not actual examples

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Bluesky is already rushing to blame Cofnas instead of the frauds at Cambridge that put Arday in a position to be outed.

It's hard to imagine being that contemptuous and wrong, but somehow, every time

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@glukianoff Wouldn’t another good counterfactual be Dan Ariely, who despite repeated and rampant fraud is still a professor at duke

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@timgill924 It is very telling that the Jason Arday obsessives do not post at all about other obvious cases of fraud, like Dan Ariely

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@jonathanchait It’s great this guy could parlay his identity and woke 1 into a sweet tenure track gig but even more impressive to parlay his identity and the rebound against woke 1 into a sweet Atlantic gig

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@RebelHistory You’re not a historian because you got your phd from a department I’ve never heard of in a backwater country

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@jonathanchait It’s great this guy could parlay his identity and woke 1 into a sweet tenure track gig but even more impressive to parlay his identity and the rebound against woke 1 into a sweet Atlantic gig

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

Need to do an experiment where political scientists are randomly sorted into teams that do and do not receive grants to test things we already know enough about…..

[Eva Vivalt @evavivalt]

What happens when someone receives $1,000/month for 3 years? The effects don't stop with the recipient.

In this new NBER working paper, we examine what changed for partners, households, friends & family after 1,000 people received $1,000/month with 2,000 in a control group. 🧵1/

[Paul Salon @PaulSalon2]

@jamesgish_ @wil_da_beast630 I think the thing is that he didn’t publish much! He was a total fraud! Indict academic administrators and this particular dept, sure, but Tim is not lying when he says that Arday was not known in the world of sociology.