Admit it: science has gone woke. What once seemed like an ideological virus confined to the arts and humanities has now infiltrated every corner of academia, including the STEMM fields. That’s why Minding the Campus is doubling down on our scrutiny of the sciences with this series, “Minding the Sciences.” In this ongoing series, we delve into topics like wokeism in STEMM, scientific ethics, research funding, climate science, scientific organizations, and much more.| Minding The Campus
Richard Vedder teaches at Ohio University and is the author of "Restoring the Promise: American Higher Education Today."| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: This essay is the second installment of a two-part series. You can read Part 1 here. Yesterday’s assessment of Jay Bhattacharya’s appointment as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was written before I had seen two excellent weekend Wall Street Journal stories on the Trump appointee. In a news story by Liz […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: This essay is the first installment of a two-part series. You can read Part 2 here. Probably the most important federal funder of traditional advanced research is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). President-Elect Trump has appointed a remarkable man to head that key branch of the federal government, Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., and Ph.D. […]| Minding The Campus