Big Tech censors the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto
Once again, Big Tech are censoring a manifesto written by a terrorist, in this case, the Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron. It used to be on Google Drive, but was deleted.…
“positively motivated to help all of humankind”
As soft censorship in academia is the law of the land, we've been accumulating a bunch of funny worded rejections and pre-rejections. Rejections arise when you submit some work for…
ProQuest censors Mankind Quarterly: removes articles from their database
I tweeted this one a few weeks ago, but we need to document everything multiple places, so it doesn't get memory holed. Someone sent me this screenshot: So, to recap…
Thou shallt not look at the polygenic scores
With the coming of Open Science principles, many scientific institutions who were previously aggressively guarding their data decided to put them out for public consumption. Mostly this means other academics…
Alternatives to Reddit et al
Big Tech is increasingly censorious, essentially an online oligarchical police state spreading to the offline world. With that in mind, you might want to avoid some of their services. Reddit…
Self-censorship in academics
There was recently a lol paper covering some of our work, and now there is another one! Panofsky, A., Dasgupta, K., & Iturriaga, N. How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From…
How to circumvent Facebook’s content censorship using archive
There are some websites that specialize in archiving websites for future reference if deleted or censored. Naturally, these things are often used for political combat to expose old tweets by…
Politically motivated retraction of benign national intelligence study by Clark et al (2020)
Original version: Clark, C. J., Winegard, B. M., Beardslee, J., Baumeister, R. F., & Shariff, A. F. (2020). Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With…
How to read SlateStarCodex (Scott Alexander) blog
TL;DR tweet version of this post. The cultural revolution has come to SlateStarCodex (which now also has a Wikipedia page). Journalist is threatening to reveal his real name and endanger…
Chemistry journal censors reflection piece because critical of DIE ideology
Retraction Watch has the story, I am merely reposting here for posterity. Tomas Hudlicky. (2020). “Organic synthesis—Where now?” is thirty years old. A reflection on the current state of affairs.…