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Lee Jussim
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Lee Jussim writes Unsafe Science, a personal blog at unsafescience.substack.com about science, politics and philosophy. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “~75% of Psychology Claims Are Fals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a defense of scientific merit against the claim that the idea is hurtful. The thread points to a non-paywalled summary and the journal article behind it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Social science, common sense, and skepticism applied to controversial topics, and occasional personal takes and twists.
Most-linked posts?
- ~75% of Psychology Claims Are Fals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-04
What Hacker News says?
Yes, but the Republicans literally want to kill some minority groups. /s Do you know how crazy this all sounds once you're outside of a specific left echo chamber? How is the hyperbole I employed any more unbelievable than that of the poster I was replying to? Another sibling comment to yours says that Trump is rounding up political opponents for a gulag. Nevermind that he has only rounded up non-citizen (most of th…
Comment linking /p/the-last-four-years-were-the-most
on “CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]”Submitted The Dubious Science of Microaggressions as a story · 59 points
HN discussion> Can you imagine if Obama had demanded that any university do an ideological purge of its conservative staff and students? Obama didn't need to demand it, the Universities went ahead and did it on their own. https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-last-four-years-wer...
Comment linking /p/the-last-four-years-were-the-most
on “Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes”Submitted We Tried to Warn You as a story · 15 points
HN discussionHere's a good account of some of it: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-last-four-years-wer...
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on “What's happening inside the NIH and NSF”Submitted Apex “Peer Reviewed” Journal, Nature, in Free Fall as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm increasingly sympathetic to the perspective that universities cannot both exclude any questioning of their ideological leaning while also expecting republican administrations and voters to continue funding them. I've seen this best expressed here: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-beatings-will-conti... It's one thing to want public funding, but it's quite another to want that funding while expecting nake…
Comment linking /p/the-beatings-will-continue
on “Why I'm resigning from the National Science Foundation”Submitted Academic Freedom from Ideological Capture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhen did they stop being the envy of the world? Was it when every member of faculty was basically forced to sign diversity pledges?[1] Was it when students and faculty were given time off to mourn the outcome of a democratic election?[2] Or maybe it was when protesters for a conflict half a world away were allowed to intimidate students from attending classes?[3] No, I guess it was when government funding was cut ¯\…
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on “NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University”Submitted The Discrimination Paradox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNon-paywall summary: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/our-defense-of-merit-in... Journal article: https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/1/236
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on “The 'hurtful' idea of scientific merit”Submitted ~75% of Psychology Claims Are Fals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ~75% of Psychology Claims Are False as a story · 1 points
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