Woke science wars continue.
This time it is Prof.Abbot again from U of Chicago. The same gay that MIT would not allow to speak because he believes in meritocracy not forced equity. Now UCB will not let him speak and off the lab heads resigns in turn. I have an idea we need to inviate Prof. Abbot to speak at LLNL or LANL and lets see what happens. This woke stuff is beyond toxic and detrimental to science.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10106001/Top-Berkeley-physicist-resigns-colleagues-refused-invite-acclaimed-scientist-speak.html
A leading scientist has dramatically resigned from his post at Berkeley University in protest at his colleagues' refusal to invite a physicist to give a speech previously canceled by another college at the behest of a woke mob.
David Romps was the director of Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC), in California.
He resigned Monday after Berkeley refused his request to invite Dorian Abbot to speak on campus, and said he would stand down by the end of the year, or when a replacement candidate for his current role was found.
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The story gets weirder. One of his former postdocs is saying that as a former postdoc he also should not be invited to give talks either in a self-cancellation. It is even more odd is that after working with the Chicago professor for 2 or 3 years he always thought he was a very nice person who cared about many social causes. He should have known better and figured out who the professor really was but he "did not do the work" as such he should also pay a price because he did not question his own privilege.
https://reason.com/2021/10/21/mit-dorian-abbot-cancel-lecture-affirmative-action/
Dr. Cohen agreed that Dr. Abbot's views reflect a broad current in American society. Ideally, she said, a university should not invite speakers who do not share its values on diversity and affirmative action. Nor was she enamored of M.I.T.'s offer to let him speak at a later date to the M.I.T. professors. "Honestly, I don't know that I agree with that choice," she said. "To me, the professional consequences are extremely minimal."
What, she was asked, of the effect on academic debate? Should the academy serve as a bastion of unfettered speech?
"This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated," she replied.
10/24/2021 1:20 PM
Indeed the idea of rational discourse, debate and science also come from a world in which white men dominated. Therefore we should also do away with this as well, in fact any of the ideals of the enlightenment should be done away as the arise from a world dominated by white men.
See now that we know exactly who to blame for everything, life becomes much easier.
10/24/2021 1:20 PM
I think that the Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, Moors, and more might disagree.
Yeah, the wokesters don't tend to be very bright or very well educated, just very, very self-assured.