The SPSB's Anti-Abortion Policy

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I honestly don't understand the criticism. If it's talking about the kind of disparities between a population prevalence of racial or ethnic groups in their representation within the organization, that made them mad. What this whole controversy was about was the organization adding on another layer of you have to write an extra diversity statement. And they just recently came out with a report that basically showed that these diversity scores actually weren't related to likelihood of acceptance at all. So then you might ask, what's the whole point of the exercise, right? Like, which some people took it as like, oh, yeah, it's not good.

A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about cancel culture in academia but now the SJWs have come for one of our own! We welcome back Yoel Inbar to talk about his experience applying for a position at UCLA psychology only to have his candidacy pulled at the last minute because of remarks he made on his podcast (!) about diversity statements. What does this mean for freedom of expression in academia? Should we advise our students and younger faculty to watch what they say when it comes to politically charged topics? Are they really going to start combing through podcast episodes now – is nothing sacred?

Plus another case of fraud in psychology comes to light courtesy of the Data Colada guys.

Data Colada post about Gino fraud