Australia has focused all iits resources into its best attributes, football, meat pies, kangaroos, and holden cars giant holes.

Does this mean Australia will divert resources from the science of manufacturing excuses? No way mate. Australia has led this field since 1901 and has swagfull of excuses which have not yet been seen.

No worries. She'll be right mate.

Science is no longer regarded or respected as an objective pursuit, one in which the principle of impartiality is sought with due diligence. This is the inference we can make from comments made by Ella Al-Shamahi, presenter of the new BBC science series, Human. ‘We do have to be a little honest,’ she says, ‘to many, it seems like left-leaning atheists have a monopoly on science.’

Science as presented to the public has taken a decidedly left-wing turn in recent years, and in many cases has been contaminated by hyper-liberal ideology

Her remarks, reported in the Sunday Times, echo those made earlier this month by the Wellcome Trust chief executive, John-Arne Røttingen, who said that scientists now had a ‘responsibility’ to demonstrate why research from across the political spectrum matters, in light of the fact that the ‘research community overall is more on the progressive/left-wing side.’

Al-Shami’s words are a rare admission of a well-known development. They confirm what many have come to recognise: science as presented to the public has taken a decidedly left-wing turn in recent years, and in many cases has been contaminated by hyper-liberal ideology.

This became evident to many after the death of the biologist, entomologist and polymath E.O. Wilson in December 2021, when Scientific American published a scolding obituary of this titan of our times. ‘With the death of biologist E.O. Wilson on Sunday, I find myself again reflecting on the complicated legacies of scientists whose works are built on racist ideas’, began the article. It damned his ‘problematic’ work and legacy, chiefly because his 1975 masterpiece, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, suggested that human societies in many ways reflect innate human characteristics. While this notion has always been largely objectionable to the traditional left, it is utterly intolerable to modern-day hyper-liberals.

Scientific American was one of the greatest casualties of the Great Awokening of ten years ago. It abandoned all pretence at impartiality last September by endorsing Kamala Harris to be US president, having previously jettisoned most claims to seriousness in 2021, when it published an article urging readers to reject the Jedi religion, based on the Star Wars franchise, on the basis that this quasi-faith was ‘prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution.’
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/07/how-political-ideology-corrupted-science/

Daves2017 wrote on Oct 18^th, 2024 at 6:13pm:


And no one with authority to govern.

That's real smart.