{"id":1921101,"date":"2023-04-29T02:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-jordan-peterson-blasts-academia-after-paper-defending-merit-rejected-for-hurtfulness\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T03:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:01:13","slug":"dr-jordan-peterson-blasts-academia-after-paper-defending-merit-rejected-for-hurtfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-jordan-peterson-blasts-academia-after-paper-defending-merit-rejected-for-hurtfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jordan Peterson Blasts Academia After Paper Defending Merit Rejected For \u2018Hurtfulness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdr-jordan-peterson-blasts-academia-after-paper-defending-merit-rejected-for-hurtfulness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Jordan Peterson Condemns Academia&#8217;s Opposition to Meritocracy<\/h2>\n<p>DailyWire+ host Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jordan-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan B. Peterson<\/a> has spoken out against those in academia who reject meritocracy. This comes after a paper defending the concept was rejected from multiple scientific journals.<\/p>\n<h3>The Paper<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/journalofcontroversialideas.org\/article\/3\/1\/236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a>, titled \u201cIn Defense of Merit in Science,\u201d was authored by prominent academics such as John McWhorter and Peter Boghossian. It argued that modern postsecondary institutions replace merit with \u201cpolitically motivated criteria\u201d in a manner that threatens the \u201ccore principles of liberal epistemology.\u201d The researchers opposed the ideologies of postmodernism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-about-power-black-theologian-voddie-t-baucham-exposes-demonic-ideology-behind-crt-blm-anti-racism\/\" title=\"\u2018This Is About Power\u2019: Black Theologian Voddie T. Baucham Exposes \u2018Demonic Ideology\u2019 Behind CRT, BLM, Anti-Racism\">critical social justice<\/a>, which some proponents assert make scientific inquiry \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cpatriarchal.\u201d Instead, they advocate for meritocracy as the ideal mechanism for \u201cmaximizing scientific advances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper noted, \u201cScientific truths are universal and independent of the personal attributes of the scientist. Science knows no ethnicity, gender, or religion. In order to achieve a more fair and equitable scientific community, we should strengthen meritocratic practices. It would be unjust and pernicious not to identify and nurture talent wherever it may be found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors approached several outlets to publish their paper, but were repeatedly denied. One prominent science journal allowed them to submit the manuscript, but were told to remove the word \u201cmerit\u201d from the title. Members of the editorial board claimed that \u201cmost readers will immediately associate the term\u201d with recent debates over affirmative action and college admissions and said the \u201cconcept of merit\u201d has been \u201cwidely and legitimately attacked as hollow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper was ultimately rejected by the editorial board for its purported \u201churtfulness.\u201d The authors then approached several other scientific journals with informal inquiries about publishing the paper, efforts which bore outcomes they described as \u201cnot encouraging.\u201d None of the journals which rejected the paper were mentioned by name.<\/p>\n<h3>Peterson&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Peterson criticized the publications for dismissing the paper. \u201cMerit is oppressive,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1651945726136524803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented<\/a> on social media. \u201cParticularly to those who lack merit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal of merit for alternative ideologies was an impetus for Peterson\u2019s own departure from academia. The bestselling author and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-doesnt-back-down-against-kim-kardashian-other-hollywood-celebrities-behaving-badly\/\" title=\"Candace Owens Doesn\u2019t Back Down Against Kim Kardashian, Other Hollywood Celebrities Behaving Badly\">podcast host wrote<\/a> in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-stunningly-corrupt-enterprise-jordan-peterson-blasts-academia-resigns-as-tenured-professor-at-university-of-toronto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion piece<\/a> last year that he had once seen himself teaching at the University of Toronto \u201cuntil they had to haul my skeleton out of my office,\u201d but said he could no longer participate in a system where superficial diversity metrics are prioritized over competence. He voiced frustration that his \u201cheterosexual white male graduate students\u201d faced lackluster career prospects due to diversity mandates.<\/p>\n<h3>The DEI Movement<\/h3>\n<p>Most academic institutions in the Western world now subscribe to the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement, also known as DEI, which has often been accused of fomenting division and limiting viewpoint diversity while entrenching a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcdaniel-big-tech-suppressed-the-truth-about-covid-19\/\" title=\"McDaniel: Big Tech Suppressed The Truth About COVID-19\u00a0\">left-wing orthodoxy<\/a> on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1682517572037000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0eoxTLnzKr3rl49f2LXGnU\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DailyWire+ host Dr. Jordan B. Peterson condemned those in academia who oppose meritocracy after a paper defending the concept was rejected from multiple scientific journals. The paper, entitled \u201cIn Defense of Merit in Science\u201d and authored by a number of prominent academics such as John McWhorter and Peter Boghossian, contended that modern postsecondary institutions replace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1921102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[25398,5967,3675,4986,7307,4356,11784,6016,10333,7298],"class_list":["post-1921101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-hurtfulness","tag-academia","tag-blasts","tag-defending","tag-dr","tag-jordan","tag-merit","tag-paper","tag-peterson","tag-rejected"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}