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Is Harvard Sacrificing Science for Wokeness?

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Posted By: Moritz55, 7/1/2021 3:52:27 PM

There is a cultural shift underway affecting all aspects of American life. Though hard to define, it usually takes the form of an emphasis on what is known variously as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), critical race theory, wokeness, anti-racism, and the like. Several scholars and writers have been raising the alarm about its anti-intellectual and illiberal aspects. Heather Mac Donald has shown how it has permeated the university. Is there reason to be suspicious? One might suspect that the new ideology only affects intrinsically political areas of study, such as Government and History. But in fact it has infected every area, even science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Newtsche 7/1/2021 4:14:37 PM (No. 832859)
Well of course but it's only Harvard doing that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DougTN 7/1/2021 4:22:38 PM (No. 832873)
Science is so pure and true… until you add politics and graft… like math it should be provable not something you say over and over until it’s true.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: itsonlyme 7/1/2021 4:24:56 PM (No. 832879)
Look for Hauvaud to implement FURTHER quotas. The pukes want only their kind.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rumblehog 7/1/2021 4:43:30 PM (No. 832907)
"Science" especially medicine, did that decades ago when they rebranded homosexuality as "normal."
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Reply 5 - Posted by: BarryNo 7/1/2021 4:44:50 PM (No. 832912)
Not the only ones. Most Universities are afraid to stand up to the woke crowd.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 7/1/2021 4:57:20 PM (No. 832929)
Watch for a lot more buildings, bridges falling down and aircraft crashes when they are designed by Affirmative Action engineers.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: justjoe1237 7/1/2021 5:00:20 PM (No. 832933)
There will either be a massive push back against wokeness, or, if not, a small handful of the general population will have succeeded in bringing down the USA. These two cannot coexist: the America of freedom, or the wokeness of totalitarianism. It will go one way or the other.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna 7/1/2021 5:21:42 PM (No. 832946)
One is tempted to underestimate those whose ' plans ' are consistently foolish, intrusive and impossible. Election fraud has changed the world for Marxists. They're on third base...... ......and stealing home ...... .....your home.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/1/2021 5:42:35 PM (No. 832962)
Wokeness = minus 25 IQ points. Even at Harvard that's 300 off your SAT. Diversity is the new meritocracy, so say goodbye to Western civilization.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Krause 7/1/2021 5:59:27 PM (No. 832985)
Harvard following the crowd on the current wim.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: czechlist 7/1/2021 6:13:56 PM (No. 833004)
The dims spell science - seance and rely upon their spirit guides summoned with their ouija boards, in the case of maxine -chicken feet, to direct Satan's destructive will upon the greatest nation ever known
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mort 7/1/2021 7:06:19 PM (No. 833046)
What? This is something new? They have for decades. Harvard grads are useless.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: JHHolliday 7/1/2021 7:13:23 PM (No. 833059)
I wouldn’t hire a Harvard grad to mow my lawn much less design a bridge or be my doctor. In the end this will diminish the college’s reputation but the over-educated useless drones will all be dead by then.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Strike3 7/1/2021 10:18:18 PM (No. 833168)
They are sacrificing their reputation as a legitimate school. They are now just an overly expensive, racist employer of lunatics and perverts.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/1/2021 10:30:13 PM (No. 833181)
Haavaad wouldn't know Science if it bit them on the posterior...
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Reply 16 - Posted by: LaVallette 7/2/2021 5:20:19 AM (No. 833305)
Modern Science has been hijacked by the belief in the Science fraternity that "if something can be done they are duty bound and have every right to do it', regardless of ethics, risks and consequences for humanity. Furthe more they have destroyed the concept of the "scientific method" especially when conducting research: instead of starting with and maintaining reservation and cynicism about the initial thesis, leave everything till after the data has been collected and accepting wherever it leads, the principle is now "arse-end about" and research now formulates a thesis and then goes out and collect ONLY the data that support it and reject everything else against it.
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