A coordinated, curated database plus an attached AI that intentionally surfaces scholarship outside dominant academic orthodoxies creates an alternative epistemic infrastructure. Over time this platform can shape citation networks, journalistic sourcing, policy briefs, and training data for models—shifting which theories and findings gain traction in public life.
— If funded and scaled, such platforms will materially alter the information ecosystem, enabling organized ideological counter‑institutions and changing how policy makers and journalists discover evidence.
Eric Kaufmann
2026.01.13
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The article announces the Heterodox Social Science Database and an ambition to attach an AI that will redirect queries from mainstream progressive sources to heterodox accounts (Eric Kaufmann, Centre for Heterodox Social Science).
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