John Staddon

John Staddon is James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Professor of Biology emeritus at Duke University. His most recent books are The New Behaviorism: Foundations of Behavioral Science, 3rd edition (Psychology Press, 2021) and Science in an Age of Unreason (Regnery, 2022).

October 7, 2025

An Answer to an ‘Excruciating Question’
August 12, 2025

Duke Turns Scientists into Salesmen
August 1, 2025

Helen Lewis’s Dumb Attack on Smart People
June 23, 2025

All Men Are Created Equal but They Are Not Equal in Any Other Way
February 11, 2025

No Borders, No Merit, No Justice: The Bizarre Philosophy of Our Intellectual Elite
May 21, 2024

Diversity be Damned!
January 18, 2024

Equity is Not Science
January 9, 2024

Early Warnings Were Ignored: DEI Trainings and Social Pressure
September 27, 2023

Actions Matter: The IAT’s Fallacious Arguments
July 25, 2023

Minding the Sciences — DEI Takes the NIH
June 20, 2023

Science is Rotting from the Top
May 25, 2023

DEI is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
May 2, 2023

WikiBias: How Wikipedia erases “fringe theories” and enforces conformity
April 5, 2023

Social Scientism
March 27, 2023

The Corruption of Science by Social Justice
December 27, 2022

Diversity Is a Trojan Horse
December 7, 2022

Taking David Horowitz Seriously
November 10, 2022

Has The Chronicle of Higher Education Become an Organ of the Democratic Party?
October 13, 2022

A Failure to Communicate?
July 12, 2022

The Racialization of a Top Science Journal
June 27, 2022

Luxury Guilt Trip: Harvard Discovers Slavery
July 30, 2021

The Multiversity and its Discontents: The Evolution of a Fatal Flaw
September 21, 2020

The Cultural Revolution: Coming to a Campus Near You