Much of what passes as academic research these days is often just propaganda designed to look like scholarship.

In today’s Martin Center article, James Nuzzo looks at some egregious cases that are both unethical and dishonest.

Whereas critiques of misguided scholarship often emphasize that it is a waste of taxpayers’ money and leads to ill-conceived public policies and healthcare practices, I also believe that human-participant research informed by “critical” epistemology is prone to violating core principles of ethical research. Moreover, I believe that such work often does not meet the definition of research. Therefore, in many instances,........

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