politics – Sean Kearney

Finally, Someone Has Peer-Reviewed the Bullshit

There are moments in academic life when you come across a paper and wonder how nobody had written it before. Pat Thomsonhas recently published one of them. Her article, in the Journal of Education Policy, develops a five-level Policy Bullshit Index for assessing claims made in the name of evidence. Not weak evidence. Not limited evidence. Not the more refinedContinue reading “Finally, Someone Has Peer-Reviewed the Bullshit”