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The author had me until half way through, when he started to babble about "Cultural Marxism", revealing the length of his own bias and lack of knowledge outside
by guhcampos 4y ago
The author had me until half way through, when he started to babble about "Cultural Marxism", revealing the length of his own bias and lack of knowledge outside his own field.
I am honestly concerned about how modern social-media related amplification moralism (aka Cancel Culture) may impact Science in general. Not for the reasons the author claim - at all - though. My perception, and fear, is that the current generation is overly concerned with "feeling good" to the point esoteric pseudocience is taking over important fields like medicine, with stuff like Homeopathy becoming accepted as medical practice in some countries.
The author, however, seems to be simply ranting about science taking a direction he personally does not like, and trying to sugarcoat his own prejudice in citations to credible sources.
There is NUMEROUS scientific evidence that demonstrated over and over again that the LACK of diversity in science has held us back tremendously in many fields, Medicine in particular. Years of experiments made by white men on white men, failing to take into account gender, ethnicity and other types of variations, leading to theories and therapies that only work as intended on white men.
Introducing diversity as a scientific requirement makes sure the very designing of experiments is less biased, as people with different backgrounds participate in the process.
I find it really ironic that people who supposedly understand the importance of variation in experimental samples can't see the importance of variation in experiment t designers.