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Harvard fires Behavioral Scientist Tenured professor for Dishonesty

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by strosb4bros, May 31, 2025.

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  1. Os Trigonum

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    The same repeated points from a template... this has nothing to do with MAGA. Many Harvard alumni who voted democrat their whole life have been incredibly vocal and supportive of Trump admin over this. It's disqualifying to you to label everyone with an honest viewpoint a redneck MAGA whatever.

    Start at 29:30 in the video... it's about 5 minutes. This is a very real issue of false indoctrination and emotional ideologies that have a systemic drain on the country as well as the youth.



    As far as public high school literacy rates, you can't teach every kid the same skills. An early transition to vocational skills, the trades and financial literacy to those struggling academically helps them in the long run. There's also a lot of behavioral issues from kids that stem from issues at home that no teacher can overcome, nor are they allowed to discipline kids for bad behavior/give them structure. On top of that, there's a stubbornness from a lot of Americans who think the 5'8 white kid can make the NBA if he just practices harder.. not everyone wants or needs higher education. Nor does it suit as well as country to think that's what gives a person value or makes them important members of society.

    Gutting the department of education and taking a hands on approach is the best thing that could have happened to public HS's.
     
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    Deflect, deflect, deflect! It's a systemic issue of an emotional ideology throughout academia, which is supposed to be based on truth seeking and factual research - not narrative indoctrination. Claudine Gay would still be President cheering on the demise of "white oppressors" if Hamas didn't slaughter 2500 Israeli's. It comes down to the doers of the world wanting a semblance of meritocracy, particularly in institutions that were built on it, versus the pseudo intellectuals who leech off of that success to indoctrinate the naive and inexperienced. They were rated last on the free speech index BEFORE the attacks and aggressively went after anyone who wasn't extremely liberal.

    The Harvard student body has grown 4% in the last 35 years, faculty is flat, the international student percentage exploded to nearly 30%... while administrative growth has been exponential. This all comes from federal funding and philanthropy.

    Harvard does not have liquidity and is cash poor with a $34+ billion hedge fund... currently $8 billion in debt because they have to keep borrowing. Why is this? You ever had the courage to dig deeper - I doubt it. So let me help.

    They have parked their forever funds in illiquid assets. A textbook sign of mediocre minds playing not to lose despite having the world at their feet. As Claudine Gay and countless students with bullshit arguments show, who were solely admitted based on boxes they checked, meritocracy has been stripped in favor of ideological puppets. This is a problem, and by failing to acknowledge it, you will dig yourself into a deeper hole as the current admin is doing.
     
    #24 strosb4bros, Jun 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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    More pointless moaning about hot girl with pointy elbows.

    Regarding public high school, you apparently still struggle with reading because I was talking about the system, not just literacy. But we can start there. When did it stop being useful for people to be able to read and write at a basic level. I’m not talking about a masters in literary analysis. Likewise, how do you learn financial literacy without basic math skills,

    And where is the funding for more vocational training and financial literacy, which can and should begin in high school.

    You want to bash higher education so badly you interject it into a discussion about public high school education. For which you have no answer, except to say it is good to get rid of funding and blame it on parents. Stupidity on top of stupidity.
     
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    Still so determined to harp on the pointy elbows of the hot girl. The facts remain:

    - Harvard is and will always be one of the top 3-5 universities in this country and top 10 in the world. By any objective criteria. If you believe otherwise, you are a moron.

    - Student body growth of 4% in the last 35 years. I have no idea if this is true, but let’s assume it is. Harvard is a private institution and one of its many many elite attributes is the student to faculty ratio. What, do you think Harvard should become a state school and have 50K students? Why in the name of Zeus’ butthole would Harvard explode its student body and dilute its prestige and the experience of those who attend.

    - international students - Guess what, Harvard is able to and does admit the best and brightest from around the world. Perhaps you think Harvard should become isolationist like Trump and only admit US citizens? You mist not know anyone who goes to Harvard. They enjoy the international perspective brought by the brightest across the world. Since you want to suggest that Harvard is ruining itself financially - international students pay the highest freight of all admitted students.

    - Harvard is litigating against the Trump administration and will keep winning. If anything, its strong stance against the illegal actions of Trump only enhances its reputation around the world. Harvard will be around much longer than Trump will. And its student body - conservatives/moderates/liberals, domestic and international students, “doers” and “pseudo intellectuals” as you like to say - they all universally support Harvards fight against Trump. To the extent that any of them were unhappy with some elements of Harvard’s handling of any issues, Trump has managed to unify them all against his illegal actions. This is true across nearly every private colleges in the US.

    I find it humorous that MAGA morons like you would pretend to know anything about private colleges, even moreso when you purport to critique their management.

    Like you said, higher education isn’t for everyone. You should stick to trade school.
     
    #27 Rileydog, Jun 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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