Political endorsements erode trust in science, but not with the people who could fix it

Shiri Spitz Siddiqi
Free the Inquiry, Heterodox Academy 

In July of this year, the American Association of University Professors endorsed Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in Michigan’s Democratic primary election for U.S. Senate. Reactions from higher ed commentators played out exactly how you might expect: where defenders saw an obligatory bulwark of academic freedom against GOP incursions, critics saw an own-goal that only further justified those attacks.

However justified the AAUP’s decision may have seemed to some, new research suggests that it will only further fracture public trust in higher education.

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