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Saturday 12 October 2024

The antithesis of the dispassionate observer



A quarter of US science funding is now ‘diversity, gender, race’ based, class warfare research


It’s a form of cultural warfare. These funds are not just diluting science, but actively sabotaging it. They enable experts who “decolonize geoscience” and offer a million dollars to the kind of people who say “white supremacy permeates … STEM education”. It is the antithesis of the dispassionate observer, instead the observer is all that matters. If you can’t see your oppression, it’s because they didn’t give you enough money…


Nice work if you can get it as they say, which clearly many "scientists" can. 

But as dispassionate observers we knew that. Modestly dispassionate observers anyhow.

9 comments:

Sam Vega said...

This bit is worrying:

"their output trains AI engines too".

The more we rely on AI, the more this becomes one of those issues that is dangerous for all of humanity. Excepting the Chinese, of course, who can be heard politely laughing in the background.

A K Haart said...

Sam - yes it is worrying. It's the old garbage in, garbage out problem. If AI systems are trained on imbecile language then it's not easy to see the point of them - we already have an oversupply of imbecile language.

Macheath said...

I’m starting to think that, if you asked them about eliminating the possibility of confirmation bias in their work, today’s researchers would look at you in bewilderment and ask “What’s confirmation bias?” in the manner of the oft-cited fish asking “What the Hell is water.”

A K Haart said...

Macheath - “What the Hell is water” - a superb analogy. An academic culture of confirmation bias must be both supportive, invisibly satisfying and extremely difficult to leave.

Many sceptics probably feel hints of that satisfaction when pointing out yet another confirmation of intellectual corruption within academia. Confirmation is satisfying, but academics are supposed to rise above it.

DiscoveredJoys said...

If you look up Cliodynamics you will find that the end of the Old Elite is the result of the children of the Old Elite seeking more 'elite jobs' than are available.

Whether that theory is mostly true or mostly not the fact that 'modern' university brainwashed scientists are searching for jobs/funding and can only find them by donning the motley of ‘diversity, gender, race’ based, class warfare research suggests we are in the tail end of the Old Elite. The theory suggest that after a period of chaos a New Elite will emerge.

A 'period of chaos' between two Elites? Perhaps we are living in it now; it's hard to tell from the inside.

James Higham said...

Modestly or moderately, AKH?

A K Haart said...

DJ - it's rather like landowners having to leave everything to their first born son because the estate wouldn't be an estate if divided at each new generation. Now we've reached a stage where the national estate has too many descendants scrabbling after comfortable, taxpayer-funded jobs and the estate workers can't support them.

James - modestly moderate.

Doonhamer said...

Result? Boeing. Plus other fiascos.
But we in UK should not be smug. We do not even make aeroplanes any more. Ships are tricky too. But if it's a grand ceremony you want our armed forces are the best.

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - UK elites are quite good at smug, but will it sell well? There are hints that some major businesses are pulling back from DEI, but I don't see the UK escaping from it in a timely manner.