Posted on 10/20/2021 12:16:54 PM PDT by Mount Athos
David Romps, director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, publicly resigned Monday over his concern that the school excludes scientists based on their political beliefs.
“Excluding people because of their political and social views diminishes the pool of scientists with which members of BASC can interact and reduces the opportunities for learning and collaboration,” Romps stated on Twitter. “Such exclusion signals that some opinions—even well-intentioned ones—are forbidden, thereby increasing self-censorship, degrading public discourse, and contributing to our nation’s political balkanization.”
Romps reportedly asked the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center to invite Dorian Abbot, who was disinvited from a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to lecture at the University of California, Berkeley to reaffirm that the center is a purely scientific organization, not a political one.
“It became unclear to me whether we could invite that scientist ever again, let alone now,” Romps said.
MIT canceled Abbot’s invitation to hold the Carlson Lecture—“a major honor in my field,” as Abbot described it—after graduate students denounced content on Abbot’s YouTube channel as threatening the “safety and belonging of all underrepresented groups within the department.”
In an op-ed in August, Abbot criticized the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion program, which he said violates the ethical and legal principle of equal treatment and “treats persons as merely means to an end, giving primacy to a statistic over the individuality of a human being.”
The Berkelyites probably said “don’t let the door hit you...” as he left.
Well, of course they do. They're Berkeley for cripe's sake!
Soviet science in the USA.
Seriously. How many Trofim Lysenkos are we cultivating in the various science fields these days?
Berkeley could bring in someone with 1/4th the talent, but as long as they were a flaming leftist, all is good.
I am shocked, SHOCKED I say!
Shocked?.......................no......................
But it is “the science.” HUGE SARCASM HERE.
More weird little cyborgs probably created and programmed in the lab of some mad scientist.
“Seriously. How many Trofim Lysenkos are we cultivating in the various science fields these days?”
Exactly. And it is serious.
If you see me running....try to keep up!..................
I recall as a 4th or 5th grade student learning about the “scientific method”. One of the facets was test the hypothothesis and validate.
It wasn’t, as is done today, come to a conclusion before testing -if test at all. Science today opinion.
Or an affirmative action hire with 1/40 the talent
It’s Berkeley.
They went there in the first place and didn’t expect that?
LOL
Science is political. Always was and always will be.
Science based on politics is not science at all.
Well yeah!!!!!
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