The Importance of Diversity Statements

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The episode came out four and a half years ago now. UCLA, I believe starting this year has a mandatory interview with two representatives of their diversity committee. They asked me kind of a standard set of questions. And then at the end, one of them said, look, it's been brought to our attention that on an episode of your podcast, you say some things that are critical of diversity statements.

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