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    Very scientific left cancels MIT speaker on climate change because of his views on affirmative action

    Dorian Abbot is a geophysicist at University of Chicago, and was invited to MIT to deliver a guest lecture on climate change. However, even though climate change is a controversial topic, Abbot's planned lecture itself was well accepted by the Earth Sciences department at MIT.

    However, Abbot had the nerve to previously criticize race-based affirmative action programs in hiring within academia, as he felt it both was racist and devalued merit. This affirmative action debate has raged on for decades, of course, and is nothing new. However, many of the campus wokes flipped out that they would invite such an awful, bad man to speak on campus, even if his speech was not at all political, and had nothing to do with affirmative action.
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    The head of the MIT Earth Sciences department said they cancelled Abbot's speech because they were worried that "black students might well have been repelled if they learned of Dr. Abbot's views on affirmative action."

    Article: https://reason.com/2021/10/21/mit-do...mative-action/

    This is today's scientific left, everyone. Only those who hold "acceptable" social viewpoints will be allowed to participate in the scientific community. If it's found out that they have the nerve to differ in opinion about something like affirmative action, they will be disinvited from lecturing, even if their research is respected and valuable.

    You should totally trust these people because they would never lie to you, and never present biased data. It's not a problem that they're all required to hold one ideology, right?

    SCIENCE!!!

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    Phoebe A. Cohen is a geosciences professor and department chair at Williams College and one of many who expressed anger on Twitter at M.I.T.'s decision to invite Dr. Abbot to speak.
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    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.


     
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    Intellectual Dishonesty is the Hallmark of a Liberal.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Phoebe A. Cohen is a geosciences professor and department chair at Williams College and one of many who expressed anger on Twitter at M.I.T.'s decision to invite Dr. Abbot to speak.
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    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.

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    Hate seeing speech get censored and suppressed, lol liberals.
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    We now live in a world where someone willingly says

    This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated," she replied.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
    We now live in a world where someone willingly says

    This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated," she replied.
    That is actually compliment to white men, and since they are hard to come by these days, we’ll take it, thank you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
    We now live in a world where someone willingly says

    This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated," she replied.
    Living where I am, I know some of these types. My favorite thing is they tend to be elitist also, and will refer to big sporting events like "Oh, is there sportsball on now?"

    Meanwhile they live their entire life like its their "team" vs everyone else.

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    I also can’t stand the demand for uniformity of opinion. But it’s not only the left. A bunch of consultants for Liz Cheney dropped her as a client because their other clients demanded they drop or or lose their business. If a Teoublican dares to stand up to Trump they are cancelled. And they want to ban teaching the truth in schools because it makes them uncomfortable. Don’t even try to pretend this is a liberal thing only.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
    I also can’t stand the demand for uniformity of opinion. But it’s not only the left. A bunch of consultants for Liz Cheney dropped her as a client because their other clients demanded they drop or or lose their business. If a Teoublican dares to stand up to Trump they are cancelled. And they want to ban teaching the truth in schools because it makes them uncomfortable. Don’t even try to pretend this is a liberal thing only.
    This is not a "liberal" thing. You and I are both liberals to varying degrees. This is a far left and far right thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
    I also can’t stand the demand for uniformity of opinion. But it’s not only the left. A bunch of consultants for Liz Cheney dropped her as a client because their other clients demanded they drop or or lose their business. If a Teoublican dares to stand up to Trump they are cancelled. And they want to ban teaching the truth in schools because it makes them uncomfortable. Don’t even try to pretend this is a liberal thing only.
    This has to be a joke. You have an entire woke culture on Twitter going after anyone of power that dares to question their theology, and you bring up a couple consultants who bolted a failed House member as some type of equivalency? They more and likely left because Liz Cheney is going to get crushed in the primary and her career is now relegated to guest appearances on CNN, where she will become a darling even though they bashed her father and called him a war criminal for 20 years. But who cares, she is a phony and she is the libs problem now, I just cannot wait until she loses. She is hypocritical trash. She'll fit in perfectly at CNN. Funny how her pops never offers a defense for her, he probably hates her too.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
    I also can’t stand the demand for uniformity of opinion. But it’s not only the left. A bunch of consultants for Liz Cheney dropped her as a client because their other clients demanded they drop or or lose their business. If a Teoublican dares to stand up to Trump they are cancelled. And they want to ban teaching the truth in schools because it makes them uncomfortable. Don’t even try to pretend this is a liberal thing only.
    This has to be a joke. You have an entire woke culture on Twitter going after anyone of power that dares to question their theology, and you bring up a couple consultants who bolted a failed House member as some type of equivalency? They more and likely left because Liz Cheney is going to get crushed in the primary and her career is now relegated to guest appearances on CNN, where she will become a darling even though they bashed her father and called him a war criminal for 20 years. But who cares, she is a phony and she is the libs problem now, I just cannot wait until she loses. She is hypocritical trash. She'll fit in perfectly at CNN. Funny how her pops never offers a defense for her, he probably hates her too.

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    This whole thing is significant because it's an example of the politicization of science. It sucks and everyone should hate it, even if you're on the left.

    Science should seek to find the truth, and all other factors should be ignored. The fact that we're seeing highly qualified lecturers disinvited because of their (non-extreme) political views on an unrelated subject is very disturbing.

    There's other crap going on which is even worse in the woke scientific community, especially the university-affiliated subset.

    There has been a push to discard research/work by scientists who are judged to be morally deficient in other areas. So if you have a brilliant scientist who has done incredible research in a certain area, but he also was found to hold racist views in the past, some on the left believe his work should be ignored.

    There's also been a laughable push for "citational diversity", where an attempt is suppsoed to be made to cite research of scientists of color, even if the best work to cite in the situation comes from a white male.

    There's also been suppression of study which could lead to "harmful" conclusions. For example, it has been considered verboten in the scientific community in recent years to research the potential harm of kids/teens gender transitioning. You would be ostracized if you attempted such a study in a university setting, unless the clear goal of the research was to prove that 3-year-olds transitioning is totally healthy.

    While I have disdain for those who blatantly disregard science and well-established research, it's not a surprise that we are seeing incredibly high levels of skepticism of the scientific establishment, given that it's become very clear they're operating out of a cult-like devotion to (or fear of opposing) left-wing dogma.

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    Science is fake and the truth is there is no truth

    The sooner you come to realize that Is the truth better off you’ll be pal

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