Tim Goree

This is truly perplexing perspective. I’d like to understand how you arrived at it given how carefully you think, and how long you have faced and called out the corruption of the academy. As I see it: for every case where a person with integrity and courage has held on within academia, there are dozens, maybe hundreds, who decided not to attend, left or were driven out over wrong think. And most of the exceptions will privately admit, they have been forced to regularly hold their tongues. The academy champions diversity while cultivating conformity, and the faculty has absorbed the lesson at its core. It has become the endemic culture. No biology department in the US made a statement affirming the binary and inflexible nature of sex in humans. No medical school challenged the atrocities done in the name of “gender affirming care”. No psychology department dissented from the spreading lunacy of the chemical imbalance model of mental illness. No university stood up for informed consent over the obviously dangerous COVID shots. All of these failures maimed innocent people. And that’s far from a complete list of jaw dropping instances of anti-scientific consensus. Your own field is held hostage by an untestable intuition falsely called a “theory”. Mine refuses to admit the inadequacy of allelic variation to account for morphological diversity, or the obvious evolutionary explanation for racism and genocide. Science is fine, as you say. But it lives amongst the rebels in the hills, not in the institutions built to facilitate it. The idea that the academy is full of great people who can simply be unshackled to do the work we need done seems preposterous to me, and I would have thought to you as well. The culture of science is actively discouraged in the academy and has been for generations. The culture needs to be rebuilt by the keepers of the scientific flame, and even if that work began in earnest today, you and I would not live long enough to see it completed.