{"id":4526,"date":"2018-05-14T05:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T05:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/identity-political-infiltration-of-the-hard-sciences\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T05:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T05:15:46","slug":"identity-political-infiltration-of-the-hard-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/identity-political-infiltration-of-the-hard-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity-Political Infiltration of the Hard Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/how-identity-politics-harming-sciences-15826.html\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">More proof<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"> that leftists are destructive:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><span class=\"cap\">A&#0160;<\/span>scientist at UCLA reports: \u201cAll across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by \u2018changing\u2019 (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?\u201d Mathematical problem-solving is being de-emphasized in favor of more qualitative group projects; the pace of undergraduate physics education is being slowed down so that no one gets left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Politically correct physics? Is there no limit to leftist lunacy? A leftist is someone who never met a standard he didn&#39;t work to erode.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More proof that leftists are destructive: A&#0160;scientist at UCLA reports: \u201cAll across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by \u2018changing\u2019 (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?\u201d Mathematical problem-solving is being de-emphasized in favor of more qualitative group projects; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/identity-political-infiltration-of-the-hard-sciences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Identity-Political Infiltration of the Hard Sciences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,520,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-identity-politics-and-tribalism","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}