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Fraudulent People, Fraudulent Ideas
There seems to be a non-trivial correlation between fraudulent ideas, and the fraudulent people who promote them. From the fundamental dimness of DEI “scholars” to the perversions of Kinsey, to the DDT scare of Rachel Carson, there is a destructive path of overclaims, thinly sourced, misrepresented, or downright fraudulent research. The latest seems to involve a math “scholar”, Jo Boaler, who has been influential in California adopting “heterogeneous classes” that throttle high performers and fail to support low performers, and to delay teaching algebra until the 10th grade.
Dr Boaler gives bad advice and charges a lot for it from her coveted perch in the Stanford University education department.