by David Yamane | Mar 1, 2020 | academic bias, Jonathan Haidt, My Experience
I reviewed articles for two scholarly journals yesterday, one of which was quite good and one of which had a very good empirical analysis embedded in a badly biased introduction and conclusion. It becomes more and more challenging to maintain my equanimity as I review...
by David Yamane | Nov 26, 2019 | academic bias, Gun Culture, publication
A couple of years ago, I was asked to write the concluding chapter to a book called Understanding America’s Gun Culture. My chapter would be titled, “What’s Next?” Unfortunately, chapters in edited scholarly books are where ideas go to die. As one scholar put it:...
by David Yamane | Oct 16, 2019 | academic bias
In my previous post about anti-gun biases that pop up all too frequently in scholarly studies of guns, I highlighted a passage that appeared for no good reason in a recent book I reviewed, Guns in Law: A gun “makes a little man feel big, a stupid man feel clever, a...
by David Yamane | Oct 5, 2019 | academic bias, Law
I was recently asked to review Guns in Law (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), for CHOICE, a monthly publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries designed to help librarians decide which books to add to their collections. I was excited to...
