background: authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. objective: to document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. methods: an anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a new zealand university. results: 43 academics responded, a respo...

Many studies have found inverse correlations between intelligence and religiosity, intelligence and political conservatism, and intelligence and political extremism. Other studies have found that academics tend to be significantly less religious and more liberal than the general population. In this article, we argue that interdisciplinary differences in religiosity and political perspective amo...

When I was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1960s, philosopher Paul Weiss published his ground-breaking book, Philosophy of Sport. I distinctly remember a review of the book from The New York Times being posted on the graduate student bulletin board under a sign with very large letters that said, “Write on this subject only if you already have tenure.” In retrosp...