“This isn’t just a media thing, just a hard sciences or a medicine thing, or a climate thing, this is pervasive in the way that we study a broad array of issues in the academic space. Going against the grain, being a fact checker, and a real fact checker, not some media entity that self-appoints to do that, but somebody that actually digs into the data and checks sources, it is not a very friendly world. One of the real downsides of the censorship culture we live in is that it means it’s a very unrewarding world to tell the truth. But really, I don’t know any other way.” – Phil Magness, from the full podcast: https://youtu.be/gbVViPNsvFY
On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Phil Magness, Director of Research and Education at AIER, to discuss censorship, fact-checking, the politicization of academia, and how that affects research, corporations, and American culture. Phil also outlines how academia often produces ideologically-driven experts who then take a technocratic approach to the impossible task of designing a perfect world, while quashing all ideas that don’t align with theirs.
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