Anna I. Krylov (Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California) writes at the American Chemical Society The Peril of Politicizing Science.

"I came of age during a relatively mellow period of the Soviet rule, post-Stalin. Still, the ideology permeated all aspects of life, and survival required strict adherence to the party line and enthusiastic displays of ideologically proper behavior. Not joining a young communist organization (Komsomol) would be career suicide—nonmemb ers were barred from higher education. Openly practicing religion could lead to more grim consequences, up to imprisonment. So could reading the wrong book (Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, etc.). Even a poetry book that was not on the state-approved list could get one in trouble.

Mere compliance was not sufficient—the ideology committees were constantly on the lookout for individuals whose support of the regime was not sufficiently enthusiastic. It was not uncommon to get disciplined for being too quiet during mandatory political assemblies (politinformati on or komsomolskoe sobranie) or for showing up late to mandatory mass-celebratio ns (such as the May or November demonstrations) . Once I got a notice for promoting an imperialistic agenda by showing up in jeans for an informal school event. A friend’s dossier was permanently blemished—makin g him ineligible for Ph.D. programs—for not fully participating in a trip required of university students: an act of "voluntary” help to comrades in collective farms.

Fast forward to 2021—another century. The Cold War is a distant memory and the country shown on my birth certificate and school and university diplomas, the USSR, is no longer on the map. But I find myself experiencing its legacy some thousands of miles to the west, as if I am living in an Orwellian twilight zone. I witness ever-increasing attempts to subject science and education to ideological control and censorship. Just as in Soviet times, the censorship is being justified by the greater good. Whereas in 1950, the greater good was advancing the World Revolution (in the USSR; in the USA the greater good meant fighting Communism), in 2021 the greater good is "Social Justice” (the capitalization is important: "Social Justice” is a specific ideology, with goals that have little in common with what lower-case "social justice” means in plain English).(10−12 ) As in the USSR, the censorship is enthusiasticall y imposed also from the bottom, by members of the scientific community, whose motives vary from naive idealism to cynical power-grabbing.

Just as during the time of the Great Terror,dangerou s conspiracies and plots against the World Revolution were seen everywhere, from illustrations in children’s books to hairstyles and fashions; today we are told that racism, patriarchy, misogyny, and other reprehensible ideas are encoded in scientific terms, names of equations, and in plain English words. We are told that in order to build a better world and to address societal inequalities, we need to purge our literature of the names of people whose personal records are not up to the high standards of the self-anointed bearers of the new truth, the Elect. We are told that we need to rewrite our syllabi and change the way we teach and speak."

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How the H.R. Monster Destroyed the Workplace; the Woke Mission Creep of Human Resrouces

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So, I'm watching a press event put on by NASA about the first deep-space images from the Webb telescope. The woman emceeing sounds like an IDIOT. She can't speak well, and pronounces words like someone with a junior high school level of reading ability (if that). And as I listen to her, I'm just stunned that someone this inarticulate and seemingly stupid is the representative of NASA. So I look her up. Her name is Michelle Jones, and she isn't just a low-level communications staff member, she is the CHIEF of communications for NASA, who, according to her LinkedIn page, "leads a staff of more than 60 communicators and communications managers in executing a comprehensive, multidisciplina ry communications program." (I'd bet money she didn't write that sentence, either.) Turns out, she only has a bachelor's degree—in "communications and media studies." Communications and media studies?! What kind of "degree" is that? You "study" the MEDIA?! (I guess journalism was too difficult for her. And you know how I feel about journalists: Journalists can't write; sports journalists can't write or play sports, and broadcast journalists can't write or act.) And get this—her degree is from the University of Maryland's "global campus." In other words, correspondence school. A half-step up from community college. So you're telling me, out of a nation of 330 MILLION people, that the MOST qualified person to lead the communications operations of one of our most important and prestigious scientific institutions only has a bachelor's degree? From a mail-in college? We seriously couldn't find someone with even a master's degree? And with more impressive academic credentials—som ething a bit more meaty than "communications and media studies"? And we couldn't find someone with a scientific background? I don't know—maybe someone with some knowledge of astronomy or physics?

Well, it should come as no surprise that she is a black woman. And there's this (also from her LinkedIn page): "Jones is recognized as an advocate, change agent and influential leader for the center’s diversity and inclusion efforts. In addition to being the longest serving Diversity Dialogue Project facilitator, she is also a member of the center’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Over the years, Jones has spearheaded several diversity and inclusion initiatives and a host of employee engagement activities, including the "i am goddard” campaign and the annual Celebrate Goddard event." (Yes, the "i am goddard" campaign is spelled just like that on her LinkedIn page. Because why would anything involved with our SPACE PROGRAM need to use proper spelling?) And if you're wondering what the "Celebrate Goddard" event was, yes, it involved "celebrating" GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans) people. Because "diversity" is what is of CRITICAL importance for, you know—science stuff, like getting to Mars and the rest of the solar system, don't you know?

But don't get me started.

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"When the authorities are stupid, they will tend to side with the stupid children and acquiesce, at least tacitly, in rough treatment for those who show intelligence. In that case, a society will be produced in which all the important positions will be won by those whose stupidity enables them to please the herd."

"Children are instinctively hostile to anything ‘odd’ in other children, especially in the ages from ten to fifteen. If the authorities realize that this conventionality is undesirable, they can guard against it in various ways, and they can place the cleverer children in separate schools. The intolerance of eccentricity that I am speaking of is strongest in the stupidest children, who tend to regard the peculiar tastes of clever children as affording just grounds for persecution. When the authorities also are stupid (which may occur), they will tend to side with the stupid children, and acquiesce, at least tacitly, in rough treatment for those who show intelligence. In that case, a society will be produced in which all the important positions will be won by those whose stupidity enables them to please the herd.

Such a society will have corrupt politicians, ignorant schoolmasters, policemen who cannot catch criminals, and judges who condemn innocent men. Such a society, even if it inhabits a country full of natural wealth, will in the end grow poor from inhability to choose able men for important posts. Such a society, though it may prate of Liberty and even erect statues in her honour, will be a persecuting society, which will punish the very men whose ideas might save it from disaster.

All this will spring from the too intense pressure of the herd, first at school and then in the world at large. Where such excessive pressure exists, those who direct education are not, as a rule, aware that it is an evil; indeed, they are quite apt to welcome it as a force making for good behaviour."

— Bertrand Russell, The Basic Writings of Bertrand (1961), Part. XI The Philosopher of Politics Russell, 49. The Reconciliation of Individuality and Citizenship, p. 436

Image: Bertrand Russell(1872 - 1970) was a philosopher, mathematician, educational and sexual reformer, pacifist, prolific letter writer, author and columnist. Bertrand Russell was one of the most influential and widely known intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In 1950 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his "rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West." Russell died of influenza at his home in Penrhyndeudraet h, Wales, United Kingdom 2 February 1970, where his ashes were scattered over the Welsh hills.

"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us."

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