I concur with you that as scholars, researchers and teachers, we are facing many (unprecedented) predicaments and challenges, and would like to add that one of the most insidious issues and provocateurs is indeed the prevailing anti-intellectualism and the cult of anti-expertise sentiment (fuelled by information democratization, intellectual egalitarianism and anti-intellectualism) manifesting as misguided distrust, dismissal and denigration of experts and established knowledge by those in the public and in office, plus the politicization of science for manipulating public policy and pushing ideological agendas.
The best and most dedicated amongst the likes of us are also inveterate teachers of everlasting, transcendental wisdom to save humans from themselves, their self-interests and their destructive ways. I fully agree with and support you in your purveying the four responsibilities that we should meet and shoulder as members of the academic community. Therefore, I would like to offer my extensive "Quotation and Information Checklist", which is available in my extensive and analytical post entitled "💬 Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: 🧠 Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity 🦠". You can easily locate the Checklist at one of the twelve major sections of the post, all of which are instantly accessible from a navigational menu. The said post is published at
Dear Terry McGlynn,
I concur with you that as scholars, researchers and teachers, we are facing many (unprecedented) predicaments and challenges, and would like to add that one of the most insidious issues and provocateurs is indeed the prevailing anti-intellectualism and the cult of anti-expertise sentiment (fuelled by information democratization, intellectual egalitarianism and anti-intellectualism) manifesting as misguided distrust, dismissal and denigration of experts and established knowledge by those in the public and in office, plus the politicization of science for manipulating public policy and pushing ideological agendas.
The best and most dedicated amongst the likes of us are also inveterate teachers of everlasting, transcendental wisdom to save humans from themselves, their self-interests and their destructive ways. I fully agree with and support you in your purveying the four responsibilities that we should meet and shoulder as members of the academic community. Therefore, I would like to offer my extensive "Quotation and Information Checklist", which is available in my extensive and analytical post entitled "💬 Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: 🧠 Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity 🦠". You can easily locate the Checklist at one of the twelve major sections of the post, all of which are instantly accessible from a navigational menu. The said post is published at
https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/misquotation-pandemic-and-disinformation-polemic-mind-pollution-by-viral-falsity/
The post itself may serve well as a valuable text for a critical thinking class.