He's an asshole, he's insulting to students, and most of all, he's a fraudulent piece of shit who misrepresents or doesn't even try to handle research respectably.

He's also affiliated with Heterodox Academy, which is a Bari Weiss Freedom University like entity that 'protects diversity of thought on campuses' (while also trying to get professors fired for things conservatives don't like to hear).

There's so many dots right here just begging to be connected, but somehow Haidt has withstood the obvious inferences. Oh, right, he has the NYT editorial board trying to smuggle him in as a respectable dude fit for decent company. Yeah right.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/jonathan-haidts-book-the... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2 https://theracket.news/p/the-free-speech-event-that-wasnt