How ‘Science’ Went Woke

How ‘Science’ Went Woke

“Believe in science.”
You’ve probably seen that common—and silly—trope on left-wing political lawn signs. But what does it mean?
Science is a method, a tool, but those lawn signs seem to be calling for something else.
The statement instead most likely signifies that one believes in the politically compromised science of institutions promoting ideological outcomes.

• It means believing in the American Medical Association, which now wants to drop the notation of sex from birth certificates without any medical justification.
• It means trusting in health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when they call “racism” a public health threat, worthy of suspending COVID-19 precautions for the sake of pro-social justice and Black Lives Matter protests, but for nothing else.

...what’s becoming clear is that as America’s most powerful institutions seek to reinforce their woke dogmas, they are insisting that ideology itself come before expertise in any field. 

Science and scientists must bend to the demands of ideology, much as they do under revolutionary, totalitarian regimes...Read all