We have previously discussed academic journals canceling publications that challenge the orthodox views of mainstream scholars. The latest such example can be found in the Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, which pulled the 2025 article of Arna Mitchell who questioned claims that psychology as a field is a tool of “white power.” The editors reportedly declared that such conclusions are “inconsistent” with the publication’s “values.”
Dr. Kumari Valentine, a psychologist and former editor of the journal, wrote an article raising concerns over the retraction: “The reason given for the removal was not research fraud, plagiarism, ethical misconduct, or factual error. Rather, the NZCCP Council determined that retaining the article was inconsistent with the values of the College and could perpetuate harm to Māori.”
The article, “He Wero Ano: Don’t Just Tell Me, Show Me How Science and Psychology Are Racist in New Zealand,” took issue with the “broad,” unsubstantiated claims of systemic racism in “psychology across all levels of the discipline,” including that “science itself is a social construct of white Europeans” and “white power.”
Mitchell, a Māori woman herself, also took issue with the view that tribal “ways of knowing should be given equal weight to scientific ways of knowing in the training and practice of psychologists in New Zealand.”
One would think that such a viewpoint, particularly from a Māori woman, would, at a minimum, be welcomed as a provocative and interesting perspective. However, various readers were less interested in reading it or even responded to it. They campaigned to cancel it.
Some did respond, saying they felt the critique was based on a misunderstanding of Kaupapa Maori psychology. That should also be a welcome perspective in allowing a free exchange of viewpoints on the subject.
Some faculty have cried foul, calling the cancellation raw censorship.
This is reminiscent of the controversy at the Emory Law Journal and the firing of an editor at JAMA.
These controversies are a reflection of the viewpoint intolerance that has taken hold of much of academia, supporting groups, and journals.
Journal retracts paper skeptical of ‘white power’ in psychology, says it conflicts with ‘values’
Anyone with any common sense understanding of life knows that progressive/left people are living in a universe of their own creation and that they are willing to suspend all logic, reality and observable facts in an effort to maintain their fake world. I don’t care how delusional they are individually, but as they amass followers by promising utopia on earth, they are a growing demographic threat to freedom around the globe. If people who demand freedom do not step up and remove this growing threat to the planet we will not know what freedom is in 50 years.
In the meantime here in the good old USA, there is no Democrat party! They thought they were cute letting these people under their tent with the scam title “Democrat Socialist”. They made Trump the enemy but their real enemy was just getting stronger inside their organization just waiting to give it to them in their touches. Nice going Dan.
The infestation of socialists/islamists within the party can be seen as akin to a sepsis infection in the human body, without intervention of massive doses of antibiotics (sane capitalism and our constitution) the dem body will succumb to this invasion of toxic ideology.
Mamdani Clout Grows as NYC Races Show Anti-Establishment Anger
Three candidates endorsed by Zohran Mamdani swept to victory in Democratic congressional primaries on Tuesday, showing that the coalition which powered the New York City mayor to a surprising victory last year is gaining strength.
Some of the city’s most established political figures were toppled in races that highlighted divisions within the party over ideology, Israel and immigration.
Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander defeated two-term Representative Dan Goldman in New York’s 10th Congressional district, while New York state lawmaker Claire Valdez won in the 7th district in Queens and Brooklyn. Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer …
By: Laura Nahmias, Nacha Cattan, Samuel A. Church – Bloomberg News ~ June 24, 2026
https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/lander-projected-to-beat-goldman-in-nyc-democratic-house-primary#that-jump-content–default
Mamdani’s Picks Sweep NYC Races as Anti-Establishment Anger Grows
Three candidates endorsed by Zohran Mamdani swept to victory in Democratic congressional primaries on Tuesday, showing that the coalition which powered the New York City mayor to a surprising victory last year is gaining strength.
Some of the city’s most established political figures were toppled in races that highlighted divisions within the party over ideology, Israel and immigration.
By Laura Nahmias, Nacha Cattan, and Samuel A. Church – Bloomberg News ~ June 24, 2026
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/lander-wins-new-york-democratic-house-primary-ap-projects
U.S. House Representative Dan Goldman’s current term will end on January 3, 2027
He will not be returning for a new term, as he lost the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th Congressional District to challenger Brad Lander.
The question now is:
Will Dan Goldman stay in NYC/DC and land a position in Goldman Sachs?
Will Dan Goldman team up with Gavin Newsom for a the 2028 Presidential Race?
Will Dan Goldman move away from NYC/DC back to California to nest with Levi’s Corp., Newsom, and the California Cartel?
Now what up Dan Goldman ???
This is not the place for you to be starting your own blog
Excuuuuse me Bad-Anon, I forgot this is your blog.
Rep. Dan Goldman is out-of-office on January 3, 2027
Gov. Gavin Newsom is out-of-office on January 4, 2027
So now what are the chosen Golden Boys of California going to do ???
Might it be:
Goldman|Newsom for the White House 2028
or
Newsom|Goldman for the White House 2028
It’s a tough decision to make. Maybe they’ll try just the keep the brand-name alive.
Personally I think Newsom would rather wait around for Alex Padilla (term ends on January 3, 2029) or Adam Schiff (term ends on January 3, 2031) to bounce out-of-office, for a shot at Senator (Senator Newsom, just has a nice ring to it).
Goldman as well would consider the opportunity ‘worth the wait’.
This report reminds me that around 20 years ago the FDA approved a race-specific treatment for heart failure for African/Black patients. It created a controversy with some claiming that there is no biological differences between racial and ethnic groups. I honestly thought that with all the new developments and research for personalized genetic-based medicine, that this whole concept of ‘racist science’ by now must have become an historical footnote.
Secretary Bessent recently referred to a German expression you can apply to these academics: “Doof bleibt doof; da helfen keine Pillen” (Dumb stays dumb no pills can cure it.)
Ayn Rand: You can evade reality but not the consequences of evading reality.
Forrest Gump: “Stupid is as stupid does”.
In this case I think it’s simple censorship of dissenting opinions.
Feelings over science is a problem. Maybe that becomes easier with certain sciences.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo&pp=ygUaZmV5bm1hbiBvbiBzb2NpYWwgc2NpZW5jZXM%3D&ra=m
“Rambling Rose” is her theme song. It fits because she wanders around the perimeter of the issue without ever stepping into the center of the ring. It’s intellectual choreography with no knockout punch.
At some level, many people on the Woke Left are aware that what Ms. Valentine said is the simple truth. However, Wokeness has become a religious belief that is more powerful than mere facts. If you speak against the common Woke beliefs, it is exactly the same as a 17th Century Quaker questioning the existence of God … it cannot be tolerated. The truly interesting aspect is not so much that Ms. Valentine spoke an obvious truth: the interesting part is how many supposedly intelligent and ‘educated’ people spoke out against her in such a Pavlovian manner. Our academic class has been dumbed down, whether it is by indoctrination or by mass hysteria. It is an amazing phenomenon to observe.
Also, the Salem Witch Trials: young, indoctrinated women spouting false claims against the innocent and getting them burned at the stake. Leftism has become the modern analog of witch hunting.
This, from the loud-squawking TRUST THE SCIENCE crowd. It’s an amazing level of Fascist censorship happening in real time, no different than other Fascists banning and burning books, or silencing unfavored authors for wrongthink. Goebbels would be proud.
For them science is not a search for the truth, it is an appeal to authority. Yup. They s*ck moose bladder