Interesting article, thanks. I trying to back up my broader claim that the “baby” has already been tossed out, rather than the narrower claim that the humanities are hopelessly woke. One of my links made that narrower claim, the others were intended to show that the humanities are in decline.
The replication articles show that (1) there’s a significant problem in the hard sciences, and (2) many in the “softer” sciences are rejecting the very notion that reproducibility is either possible or desirable in their fields. The implication is that, as bad as the situation is in the hard sciences, it’s likely far worse in the humanities.
One of the criticisms leveled against Claudine Gay was that she refused to share her data with others in her field. Many in the humanities argue that there is no such thing as data in the humanities.
And a post mortem from left of center:
https://blog.oup.com/2020/10/scientism-the-coronavirus-and-the-death-of-the-humanities/
Interesting article, thanks. I trying to back up my broader claim that the “baby” has already been tossed out, rather than the narrower claim that the humanities are hopelessly woke. One of my links made that narrower claim, the others were intended to show that the humanities are in decline.
The replication articles show that (1) there’s a significant problem in the hard sciences, and (2) many in the “softer” sciences are rejecting the very notion that reproducibility is either possible or desirable in their fields. The implication is that, as bad as the situation is in the hard sciences, it’s likely far worse in the humanities.
One of the criticisms leveled against Claudine Gay was that she refused to share her data with others in her field. Many in the humanities argue that there is no such thing as data in the humanities.