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A fringe ideology on the far left has taken over academia, suppressing free speech and promoting grievance studies over evidence-based research, with the goal of controlling society and imposing its ideology on others.

Questions to inspire discussion.

What’s happening in American universities?
—A fringe ideology on the far left has taken over academia, suppressing free speech and promoting grievance studies over evidence-based research. This ideology aims to control society and impose its views on others. It’s spreading rapidly, metastasizing into other areas of society.

Jef Boeke and his team create intricate works of art on Petri dishes using a palette of yeast paints.

Certain fields of academia, particularly those influenced by postmodernism and critical theory, have become corrupted by a focus on ideology over truth, leading to a lack of intellectual rigor and a stifling of rational discourse.

Questions to inspire discussion.

What is the Sokal hoax?
—The Sokal hoax was a 1996 academic hoax where physicist Alan Sokal published a fake paper filled with nonsensical postmodern jargon in a Duke University journal to test if postmodern cultural critics would accept a nonsensical argument. The hoax exposed the abuse of scientific terminology to make political points in academia.

Discover how a patched Microsoft 365 Copilot vulnerability could have led to data theft using ASCII smuggling and prompt injection techniques.

Uber fined €290 million by Dutch regulator for improper transfer of European driver data to US, violating EU data protection standards.