Posted on 09/11/2007 8:50:56 AM PDT by bs9021
Chicago School Deconstructed
In a special report on this website, Accuracy in Academia executive director Mal Kline looks at the 2005-2006 hires at the University of Chicago in what proves to be a vain search for diversity. You can read the study here.
http://www.academia.org/pdf/Home_of_Freakonomics.pdf
Whoa! They hire for academic excellence, maybe?
Kewl!
“...Levitt posits that legalized abortion leads to lower crime rates. When conservative commentator William J. Bennett attacked this thesis on the air during his radio show, liberal activists and so-called mainstream media outlets successfully characterized the pugnacious pundit as a proponent of the very theory he denounced....” - from the posted article
I heard Bennett’s radio comments and Bennett DID accept Levitt’s thesis. Therefore, I conclude that neither the posted article, nor its author, Mal Kline, nor its publisher, Accuracy in Academia, are trustworthy.
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