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Woke Invades the Sciences
A quarter-century ago, the “Science Wars” — an unfortunate military metaphor applied to an intellectual debate — pitted a motley crew of postmodernist-influenced literary scholars and social…
And yet, quantum electrodynamics can predict the magnetic moment of the electron to 11 decimal places accuracy: “equivalent to measuring the distance from Los Angeles to New York … to within the width of a human hair”, as Nobel laureate Richard Feynman memorably put it. Although constrained by the space limitations of the op-ed format, Dr. Hilton and I were able to briefly outline the science of biological sex, and detail how its denial harms vulnerable groups, including women, gay men, lesbians, and, especially, gender non-conforming children. The downsides of such “cancellations done in the name of maintaining moral purity” — which in earlier epochs targeted Marie Curie (affair with a married man) and Alan Turing (gay) — were eloquently explained in a recent article, “The peril of politicizing science”, by the chemist AnnaKrylov.
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