Bill Ackman and Roland Fryer will be awarding a total of up to $5 million to several courageous social scientists. Nominations close Sunday, Nov. 1 at 11:59 PM EST.
The problem is that it has to involve inventiveness. My suggestion would be Davide Piffer. The first discovery of enhanced cognition during the advent of farming is huge social news. Before that, everyone thought CroMagnon then at -35ky was as clever as we are now.
> The Carob Trust Prize honors academics who pursue bold ideas that challenge prevailing orthodoxies—whether political, intellectual, or methodological—and hold the potential to reshape knowledge, policy, or society. <
There is a need for really out-of-the-box thinking to generate brand new breakthrough ideas every now and again. But that really is not the problem here, now. It's that over the last 50 or 60 years we've been saddled some just some egregiously stupid and objectively false ideas imaginable.
Has any society ever clung to an idea as objectively false as "diversity is our greatest strength"--contradicted by pretty much all of human history? Or "must have immigration!"--contradicted by all of human history and basic 6th grade math? Or "there is no such thing as race"--contradicted by every piece of empirical data, basic evolutionary theory and your own lying eyes?
People 100 years ago--including American elites--did not believe this stupid shit.
No out of the box, breakthrough thinking is required, just a rejection of the tsunami of minoritarian, anti-national, anti-white propaganda that's been dumped on us.
My suggestion would be Davide Piffer. The first discovery of enhanced gene-encoded cognition scores during the advent of farming is huge social research news. Directly playing into heredeterianism. Eat your heart out, Richard Hanania "Hereditarianism is for dummies". Before that, everyone thought CroMagnon then at -35ky was as clever as we are now.
When I go through the selection criteria, he would satisfy them:
1. Intellectual Independence: A proven commitment to following logic and evidence wherever they lead, regardless of academic or political pressure.
> Publications record, book and substack devoted to sociogenetics, modern and archeological
2. Non-Conformist Ideas: Originality and boldness of research agenda. Willingness to ask questions that others avoid—whether uncomfortable, underfunded, or unfashionable.
> The first discovery of enhanced gene-encoded cognition scores during the advent of farming is huge social research news. Directly playing into heredeterianism.
Impact and Vindication: Work of excellent quality that has shifted academic debate, public discourse, or policy. Evidence that ideas criticized at the time have proven—through data, replication, or influence—to possess enduring value.
I agree with Piffer as a viable and worthy nominee. And I think they way he was ignored by Akhbari for being cited in that recent blockbuster paper of theirs was in complete bad faith.
Thomas Sowell, Charles Murray... and Steve Sailer.
Cofnas
The problem is that it has to involve inventiveness. My suggestion would be Davide Piffer. The first discovery of enhanced cognition during the advent of farming is huge social news. Before that, everyone thought CroMagnon then at -35ky was as clever as we are now.
@Nathan Cofnas
Aella has had a rough year and deserves it.
> The Carob Trust Prize honors academics who pursue bold ideas that challenge prevailing orthodoxies—whether political, intellectual, or methodological—and hold the potential to reshape knowledge, policy, or society. <
There is a need for really out-of-the-box thinking to generate brand new breakthrough ideas every now and again. But that really is not the problem here, now. It's that over the last 50 or 60 years we've been saddled some just some egregiously stupid and objectively false ideas imaginable.
Has any society ever clung to an idea as objectively false as "diversity is our greatest strength"--contradicted by pretty much all of human history? Or "must have immigration!"--contradicted by all of human history and basic 6th grade math? Or "there is no such thing as race"--contradicted by every piece of empirical data, basic evolutionary theory and your own lying eyes?
People 100 years ago--including American elites--did not believe this stupid shit.
No out of the box, breakthrough thinking is required, just a rejection of the tsunami of minoritarian, anti-national, anti-white propaganda that's been dumped on us.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, and it's really the SoCal sciences. Then Sailer's a lock.
Murray, pinker
My suggestion would be Davide Piffer. The first discovery of enhanced gene-encoded cognition scores during the advent of farming is huge social research news. Directly playing into heredeterianism. Eat your heart out, Richard Hanania "Hereditarianism is for dummies". Before that, everyone thought CroMagnon then at -35ky was as clever as we are now.
When I go through the selection criteria, he would satisfy them:
1. Intellectual Independence: A proven commitment to following logic and evidence wherever they lead, regardless of academic or political pressure.
> Publications record, book and substack devoted to sociogenetics, modern and archeological
2. Non-Conformist Ideas: Originality and boldness of research agenda. Willingness to ask questions that others avoid—whether uncomfortable, underfunded, or unfashionable.
> The first discovery of enhanced gene-encoded cognition scores during the advent of farming is huge social research news. Directly playing into heredeterianism.
Impact and Vindication: Work of excellent quality that has shifted academic debate, public discourse, or policy. Evidence that ideas criticized at the time have proven—through data, replication, or influence—to possess enduring value.
> Recently verified by Akhbari and Reich...
He deserves it. My nominee would be Greg Clark. The amount of effort and ingenuity of his research is awe inspiring.
I agree with Piffer as a viable and worthy nominee. And I think they way he was ignored by Akhbari for being cited in that recent blockbuster paper of theirs was in complete bad faith.
Bryan Pesta! Fired from Cleveland State for the research crime of advancing human knowledge.
If he shares it with Jordan Lasker and Emil Kierkegaard.
Sailer & Murray are vying for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Derbyshire, Jared Taylor.
Given that Bill Ackman is putting up the dough, the smart money is on Bibi.
Kevin MacDonald, criteria be damned.
So they're going award a rich person with mainstream backing a big fat bonus. Got it.