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Michael DAmbrosio's avatar

This might be the funniest article I've read in 2023:

https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/2023/professor-gosnell-combines-art-and-science-in-immersive-art-piece.html#.Y8dURkHMK3_

“As an astrophysicist, I'm a product of institutions that are steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy,” Gosnell says. “The tenets of white supremacy that show up [in physics] of individualism and exceptionalism and perfectionism… it’s either-or thinking, and there's no subtlety, there's no gray area. All of this manifests in the way that we think about our research, and what counts as good research, what counts as important research?”

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Joe Horton's avatar

This isn't new. Lysenko was Joe Stalin's boy. His bullshit theories caused millions of Russians to starve. Why? Because he decreed that reality didn't comport with good Communist thought. He therefore decreed that reality wasn't real, or at least that reality had nothing to do with growing crops. Start with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

and next read

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-019-0422-5

If interested, download the article to which the second link refers. [reference 1 in the nature article] If these guys represent Chinese agricultural thought, they're in deeper weeds than I imagined.

That's what decolonizing STEM means: Who needs reality as long as you have dogma and a megaphone? And maybe little Greta Thunberg--to make you feel warm, fuzzy, and self-righteous?

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