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Gregg Gonsalves

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I work @Yale focusing on operations research/epidemiology for infectious disease. Assoc. Prof @YaleSPH.

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Stephanie H. Murray(@stephmurrayyyy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cash transfers reduce child abuse and neglect. Notable that the biggest drop is for physical abuse. (The financial impetus for 'neglect' is pretty straightforward).

nber.org/papers/w31733

Cash transfers reduce child abuse and neglect. Notable that the biggest drop is for physical abuse. (The financial impetus for 'neglect' is pretty straightforward). nber.org/papers/w31733
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Wajahat Ali(@WajahatAli) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Same Elise Stefanik that funded the anti semitic replacement theory ads for her campaign and supports Trump even after he uses Hitler's language against immigrants and doesn't apologize for dining with white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes. Congrats, America. You got played.

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Norman Ornstein(@NormOrnstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is an important thread. Mainstream journalists, including on cable news, are like Charlie Brown and the football. And Rufo, Stefanik and their cronies, are the Lucy’s here. CNN tonight let Scott Jennings get away with pathetic mendacity on this with no pushback.

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Norman Ornstein(@NormOrnstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

That is the key point about Claudine Gay. Whatever her faults, and they clearly are many, she was not targeted by well-meaning people. She was part of a larger radical right assault on prestigious higher education institutions. Rufo and Stefanik leading the way.

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Norman Ornstein(@NormOrnstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Note to journalists: as you report on Claudine Gay’s resignation, do not refer in any way to Elise Stefanik as an opponent of anti-Semitism. She has said nothing abt Trump’s association with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, nothing abt Charlottesville. She has cynically exploited the issue

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Glenn Greenwald(@ggreenwald) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is Claudine Gay's plagiarism real? Yes, seems to be.

But in case anyone is confused about what really went on here, Bill Ackman is already demanding the head of the 3rd University President who, like the one fired at U Penn, didn't have a plagiarism scandal but an Israel one.

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James Surowiecki(@JamesSurowiecki) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Winning over private-equity folks,' and in particular winning over Bill Ackman, should be nowhere on the checklist for Harvard when it looks for a new president.

'Winning over private-equity folks,' and in particular winning over Bill Ackman, should be nowhere on the checklist for Harvard when it looks for a new president.
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Dina D. Pomeranz(@DinaPomeranz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bill Ackman Gregg Gonsalves Harvard University As both a former Harvard professor and student, I strongly wish you would stop trying to impose your personal views on an University.

This is the problem of the US funding model. I'm glad here in Switzerland the universities are publicly funded and shielded from individual…

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Gregg Gonsalves(@gregggonsalves) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes, because education in America should be driven by the politics of petty. Bill Ackman's Campaign Against Harvard Followed Years of Resentment. nytimes.com/2023/12/12/bus…

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Gregg Gonsalves(@gregggonsalves) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Bill Ackman is a pernicious influence on American education. He thinks his money equals wisdom and even if it doesn't, he thinks it gives him the right to bully at will. Time to stand up to people like him. He's odious.

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Gregg Gonsalves(@gregggonsalves) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Will Bunch: 'This will be used by the very worst people to make higher education worse, not better. It will be used to cut funding, end diversity, stifle academic freedom.'

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Francisco Taveira(@jftaveira1993) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Claudine Gay didn't do herself any favors,' wrote Will Bunch, 'but I'll say what I said when Penn's Magill resigned: This will be used by the very worst people to make higher education worse, not better.' commondreams.org/news/claudine-…

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Sam Haselby(@samhaselby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NYT: Campus Crackdowns Have Chilling Effect on Pro-Palestinian Speech
(Great work by Bill Ackman's campus lieutenants Larry Summers, Steve Pinker, Robert George, and Nick Christakis)
nytimes.com/2023/12/17/us/…

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Sam Haselby(@samhaselby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Helpful to understand the claims of Christakis, Flier, Pinker, Summers, that anti-semitism is a huge problem at the US's elite schools as part of the New England tradition of witch-hunts. In the Salem witch trials, for example, Cotton Mather defended the validity of 'spectral...

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Sam Haselby(@samhaselby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's notable that none of these guys, Ackman, Pinker, Christakis, Flier, Summers, know anything about the Middle East or speak any of its languages and yet have appointed themselves authoritative experts. Where is the respect for expertise and scholarship they claim to represent?

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