The War Against “Woke” Could End U.S. Science as We Know It
There was a time when scientific debates were gloriously boring. Researchers argued over statistical methods, sample sizes, whether a telescope needed recalibration, or whether someone forgot to label a petri dish before accidentally discovering something revolutionary. It was a world built on evidence, peer review, painful grant applications, and enough coffee to violate several international treaties. Then we did what modern society always does. We turned it into a culture war. Apparently, gravity now has a political affiliation. Welcome to twenty-first century America, where entire scientific disciplines are judged less by their accuracy than by whether they accidentally offended somebody's favorite cable news host. Somewhere along the way, words like "diversity," "equity," "climate," "gender," and "public health" stopped being subjects researchers investigated and became ideological smoke alarms that trigger panic attacks in peo...
