The War on Science
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The War on Science

Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process

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The War on Science

Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process

About this book

An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society.

From assaults on merit-based hiring to the policing of language and replacing well-established, disciplinary scholarship by ideological mantras, current science and scholarship is under threat throughout western institutions. As detailed by this group of prominent scholars – who range across many different disciplines and political leanings – the very future of free inquiry and scientific progress is at risk.

Many who have spoken up against this threat have lost their positions, and a climate of fear has arisen that strikes at the heart of modern education and research. Banding together to finally speak out, this brave and unprecedented group of scholars issues a clarion call for change.

Contributors: Richard Dawkins; Alan Sokal; Niall Ferguson; Gad Saad; Anna Krylov; Jay Tanzman; John Armstrong; Jerry Coyne; Luana Maroja; Sally Satel; Geoff Horsman; Alessandro Strumia; Roger Cohen; Amy Wax; Alex Byrne; Moti Gorin; Judith Suissa; Alice Sullivan; Dorian Abbot; Steven Pinker; Nicholas Christakis; Richard E. Redding.

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Publisher
Forum
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781800756199

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction and Overview • Lawrence M. Krauss
  3. Part 1 • Free Speech, Victimhood, and Ideology
  4. Scientific Truth Stands Above Human Feelings and Politics • Richard Dawkins
  5. How Ideology Threatens to Corrupt Science • Alan Sokal
  6. The Treason of the Intellectuals • Niall Ferguson
  7. Universities as Dispensers of Parasitic Ideas • Gad Saad
  8. Spotlight on Scientific Censorship • Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman
  9. Part 2 • Ideological Corruption of Academic Disciplines
  10. How Do You Decolonize Mathematics? • John Armstrong
  11. The Ideological Subversion of Biology • Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja
  12. Social Justice, MDMedicine under Threat • Sally Satel
  13. Part 3 • The Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bureaucracies on Scholarship in Academia and Beyond
  14. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: The Dismal Pseudoscience Threatening Science • Geoff Horsman
  15. The Leaning Ivory Tower • Alessandro Strumia
  16. DEI in Science and Medicine: Missing Metrics and Measures • Roger B. Cohen and Amy L. Wax
  17. Part 4 • Gender, Ideology, Science, and Scholarship
  18. A Deafening Silence: Bioethics and Gender-Affirming Health Care • Alex Byrne and Moti Gorin
  19. The Gender Wars and Academic Freedom • Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan
  20. Part 5 • What Can Be Done?
  21. Science and Politics: Three Principles, Three Fables • Dorian Abbot
  22. A Five-Point Plan to Save Universities from Themselves • Steven Pinker
  23. Teaching Inclusion in a Divided World • Nicholas A. Christakis
  24. Depoliticizing Science Requires Revolutionary Reform of the Professoriate • Richard E. Redding
  25. Epilogue
  26. Contributors
  27. References and Footnotes

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