This time, I am looking at an article by Steve Fuller which is part of an entertaining, ongoing academic argument he is having with Massimo Dell’Utri on post-truth, epistemology and the way we make sense of the world. Fuller has taken exception to Dell’Utri’s suggestion that we have an epistemological compass which provides a universal objectivity, …
December 2022 archive
Dec 03
Population level data shows association between exclusion and neurological and mental health disorders
Earlier this month, I wrote a post for the Mental Elf Blog looking at a paper published in Lancet Psychiatry. Ann John and colleagues had used existing medical and educational records to see if there was any association between school absence and exclusion rates with children’s records of neurodevelopment or mental health disorders upto the …