#3 Idea Laundering and the Academic Peer Review Process

Peter Boghossian discusses Bret Weinstein of “Idea Laundering” in a piece in the Wall Street Journal:

Peter recently quit his job as an assistant professor of philosophy, saying that universities have sacrificed ideas for ideology. The more he spoke out against illiberalism on campus, the more retaliation he faced. This is the first episode of the "Permission to Think" series, a collaboration between Uncomfortable Conversations and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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