{"id":360291,"date":"2025-01-03T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=360291"},"modified":"2025-01-03T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:25:40","slug":"the-stupid-nation-the-uk-gov-wants-to-de-westernize-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=360291","title":{"rendered":"The stupid nation: The UK Gov wants to \u201cde-Westernize\u201d science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s not put race politics in our science lessons<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Science has no race \u2014 it is true, or it isn\u2019t. But once we start deleting one race or judging one scientific hero by the color of their skin, we can still make science lessons racist. It\u2019s just another anti-white virtue-signalling thing. Instead of teaching children how the world works, someone thinks we should teach them topics that make the Minister sound good at UN cocktail parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK Labour government wants to overhaul school science \u2014 if only they knew what science was. They got an \u201cindependent\u201d review to tell them what they wanted to hear and invited the grovelling Royal Society\u2019s of Science to sell out science to the latest Woke intellectual fashion. Shame on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real science is about evidence, not the color of your skin, or the continent your last 1,000 ancestors lived on. It can\u2019t be \u201cde-Westernized\u201d because it isn\u2019t \u201cWestern\u201d \u2014 the laws of physics work just as well in England as they do in Bangladesh.\u00a0 Hypersonic rockets don\u2019t care what language you speak; penicillin kills streptococcus in the East and the West, and gravity sucks us all. Its universality is what makes science so fantastically useful, and ultimately so unifying. We are all just homo sapiens in this together, trying to comprehend the big world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally the UK Labour government want to screw that all up, as if science was just another kind of Arts degree:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

School science lessons could be \u2018de-Westernised\u2019 to highlight discoveries by other cultures in \u2018woke\u2019 Labour overhaul of the curriculum<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Greg Heffer at the Daily Mail:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Government, payer of almost all the science grants, asked the \u201cscience\u201d societies to  make up stuff for their PR campaign:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to the Department for Education\u2019s call for evidence, top science bodies stressed the importance of teaching \u2018non-Western\u2019 contributions to science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they can turn science into another social studies unit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Royal Society of Biology, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Institute of Physics also said pupils should learn why some cultures were \u2018less able to claim credit and ownership for ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026the Royal Society of Biology\u2019s own submission stated: \u2018It is essential that all children feel included in the sciences<\/strong> by valuing their experiences and through the thoughtful use of contexts, imagery and narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All children need to know what science is, they don\u2019t need to be patronized. There\u2019s a devastating condescension, a racist underbelly to the idea that someone with Hispanic, Malaysian, Kenyan or whatever skin can only learn science if we can teach them through neolithic folk songs or just-so-stories about imaginary ancestors. Spare them the soft racism of low expectations. How unforgivably demeaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All children should \u201cfeel included\u201d in science because the laws of physics and chemistry apply to them; because they use phones, fly in planes and get x-rays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, after all students learn what science is (observation, hypothesis, prediction, and testing with rigorous skepticism) then they can go to social studies classes to find out how scientific heroes changed the lives of millions, and why the discipline of science was crucial to the West, and how the search for truth became embedded in the dominant Western culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t want more social studies in our science lessons, we want more science in our social studies\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can learn the physics of electromagnetism in their science class and talk about the impact of Michael Faraday in their history lessons and how he had to teach himself, and how his idea of electric fields and electric motors changed the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, 27th December, 1855<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Killing off Western heroes is something communists and enemies want<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Deleting the heroes of science (and the heroes of the UK) is a great way to demoralize and divide a generation. Instead of inspiring kids of all colors to grow up to be Alexander Fleming, the Labour Party want to teach children that their culture is not different, not worth fighting for, and not worth passing on to their own kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a stupid way to run a country:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Royal Society of Biology also said it had sought expertise on \u2018decolonising the curriculum\u2019 and for a \u2018no more heroes\u2019 approach to teaching science in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This would mean \u2018avoiding prescriptive lists of historic figures in biology\u2019 and instead \u2018exploring opportunities for local, recogniseable, diverse historic and contemporary figures through which discovery and exploration of biological concepts can be explored\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Xi would be pleased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a test to see if we will resist. Mock it accordingly so the people that spout this craven nonsense crawl back in their holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top image by Andy<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Science has no race \u2014 it is true, or it isn\u2019t. But once we start deleting one race or judging one scientific hero by the color of their skin, we can still make science lessons racist. It\u2019s just another anti-white virtue-signalling thing. 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