December 2022 archive

Post-truth and the rules of the game

This time, I am looking  at an article by Steve Fuller  which is part of an entertaining, ongoing academic argument he is having with Massimo Dell’Utri on post-truth, epistemology and the way we make sense of the world. Fuller has taken exception to Dell’Utri’s suggestion that we have an epistemological compass which provides a universal objectivity, …

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Population level data shows association between exclusion and neurological and mental health disorders

Earlier this month, I wrote a post for the Mental Elf Blog looking at a paper published in Lancet Psychiatry. Ann John and colleagues had used existing medical and educational records to see if there was any association between school absence and exclusion rates with children’s records of neurodevelopment or mental health disorders upto the …

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