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Can You Take a Critique: Seeing Beyond the Ingroup Horizon

virtue signaling

Can You Take a Critique: Seeing Beyond the Ingroup Horizon

Can You Take a Critique: Seeing Beyond the Ingroup Horizon

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes “How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide” is a great book.* The authors have noted that academia (including the most prominent medical journals) is subject to an increasing assault whereby science is replaced by social justice. (They famously had a number of bogus studies, including one which won an award, published in academic journals to highlight this insidious trend.) The authors are also concerned about so-called “virtue-signaling” and…

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