New Prize Rewards Social Scientists Whose Findings Survive Pressure

“Mr. Fryer raised the alarm about suppression of inconvenient findings in a November 2024 Wall Street Journal essay. He called for something like a MacArthur Fellowship or an X Prize for academic truth-telling. The prize should be large enough to matter, prestigious enough to serve as a public credential for scholars who were right when […] The post New $1 Million Prize Rewards Academic Truth-Telling appeared first on Human Progress.