Author: Steven Lubet

Steven Lubet is Williams Memorial Professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and author of Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters, and other books such as 2015's The “Colored Hero” Of Harper’s Ferry: John Anthony Copeland And The War Against Slavery and Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players. He is the director of the Fred Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy. He has been living with ME/CFS since 2006.

There Is No Proof of Rampant Anti-Semitism in University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices
Higher Education Reform
January 19, 2022

There Is No Proof of Rampant Anti-Semitism in University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices

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Credit Due? Opposing One Form of Institutional Support for an Academic Boycott
Ethics
December 20, 2021

Credit Due? Opposing One Form of Institutional Support for an Academic Boycott

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A Further Response on the Application of Academic Freedom
International Debate
December 8, 2021

A Further Response on the Application of Academic Freedom

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When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street
International Debate
November 16, 2021

When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street

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Going Around in Circles with Long COVID

Going Around in Circles with Long COVID

Readers of Social Science Space may recall that Dr. Jeremy Devine suddenly became the best-know psychiatry resident North America when he published […]

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On Taking Long COVID Seriously

On Taking Long COVID Seriously

Examining how long COVID is viewed by some doctors as psychosomatic, Steven Lubet argues that condescension in the name of compassion is no way to build trust.

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Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy ‘First Doing Harm’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy ‘First Doing Harm’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

In the United States, government health agencies consider chronic fatigue syndrome as “a serious, chronic, complex, and multisystem disease,” rather than a psychological condition. That view is is not held everywhere.

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Ethnography’s Denominator Blues

Ethnography’s Denominator Blues

Steven Lubet set out to investigate whether ethnography’s characteristic reliance on unverified accounts may sometimes produce misinformation. He argues that In any other academic discipline, his findings would have provoked less umbrage and more reinvestigation.

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Parsing Fact and Perception in Ethnography

Parsing Fact and Perception in Ethnography

Fact and perception are simply different categories, neither of which is necessarily more important than the other, argues Steve Lubet. . The challenge for ethnographers lies in making clear and careful distinctions between what they have actually seen and what they have only heard about.

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Finding Fault with Faux Facts

Finding Fault with Faux Facts

No matter how exquisite the details, it is important to separate fact from folklore – which should not require cross examination.

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Fear of Listening to Patients: Short-sighted on Long Covid

Fear of Listening to Patients: Short-sighted on Long Covid

A psychiatrist’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal argues that long Covid is psychosomatic. Steve Lubet asks why the writer is dictating to patients rather than listening to them.

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Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

We expect to see confirmation bias play an active role in the politics, where there is a satisfying emotional payoff from assuming the worst of the other side. We do not expect the same phenomenon among highly educated professionals, especially in their seemingly well researched publications. And yet …

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