Academics pursue project to ‘Decolonize Physics’ – ‘We aim to critically investigate if & how physics itself has contributed & still contributes to colonialism’
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
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2021 report: Decolonizing Light: A Project Exploring Ways to Decolonize Physics – By Ingo Salzmann, Louellyn White, Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf, and Tanja Tajmel
Excerpts: The aim of our project is exploring approaches to decolonize physics, of both its narratives and contemporary research. We decided to focus on physics, as this discipline plays a special role in the field of science due to its unique scientific authority. Physics is commonly regarded as the “most objective” and the “hardest” science [2], it fundamentally defines scientific key concepts such as energy, matter, force, light, space and time, for all the other sciences.
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University of Rhode Island and Director of Graduate Studies Erik Loomis wrote: “Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist because they are developed by racists who live in a racist society, whether they identify as racists or not.”
Loomis added: “This is why I have so much contempt for those, including many liberals, who “just want the data.” The data is racist!”
Also see: According to this professor, ‘Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist’
University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis said in a tweet that science, statistics and technology are inherently racist “because they are developed by racists living in a racist society.” – Loomis also said that he has contempt for people who “just want the data.”
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woke woke woke
A Wonderful, A Wonderful, A Wonderful…
Now the Woke Wussies are attacking Knowledge itself.
If Physics doesn’t agree with the narrative, punish it until it conforms
“Decolonizing Physics” — every time I see one of these news items, it makes me even more paranoid that I’m having one of those wacko dreams right now that we all have right before we wake up and get out of bed, where everything seems really real, but when we are fully awake and remember what we just dreamed, we say, “that has got to be one of the dumbest, most illogical dreams yet!“
This reminds me of one of those word salad generators that sneak articles by editors of journals to embarrass their peer review process!
More ChatGPT?
I remember a few years ago someone here made one that readers could go to and generate their own. He was asking for contributions of phrases to add to the program. (Mocking the incidents you’re talking about.)
I contributed “The systematizing of error”.
CliSy has that in spades. These guys are taking to a new level!
Newspeak has jumped out of our fiction and into our daily lives. Orwell must be laughing from the hereafter. He saw this as a career path. Taxpayer funded Bureaucrats getting paid good money to invent new concepts to authorize new regulations in order to restrict movement and control the masses complete with a propaganda network to ingrain and erase these words and concepts as the Central Authority deems necessary.
In my weirdest dreams I often find myself falling from a great height. Just before I strike the ground I decide to fly instead.
In their world, this approach really works. Perhaps we should encourage them to try.
And the most important take away is that you, Russell, are a racist for not embracing such dreams and when they find you out, and they have their ways, there will be consequences’. It might be advisable not to relate the nature of your dreams to anyone outside your close circle of friends and even then do so with caution.
‘Racist’
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
+1000 for the Princess Bride Reference!
it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.
On reading this, Daleks came to mind – I do not know why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhEUBgu9j5Y
I guess this video makes as much sense as the decolonialising physics.
If only we could De-Colon-ize wokeism
Once the jaw bone goes beyond the sphincter, it is an almost incurable condition.
We have committed this interchange to paper so that we can use it away from WUWT. Thanks!
Perhaps?
Exterminate. Exterminate! exTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!!!
I was tempted to ask “are they completely mad?” but now I have the nswer!
Loomis also said that he has contempt for people who “just want the data.”
Good, it is mutual. I have contempt for people that say such profoundly stupid things.
In a world where this person is a Director of Graduate Studies, can I get off the ride now?
No, you stay on. People, and I use the term very loosely, like Loomis shouldn’t be allowed on the ride in the first place.
Yes, they obviously aren’t up to safe use standards, like selling tickets at the fair to pilot a real jet fighter
Why would anyone consider doing Graduate work at RIU whose Director of Graduate Studies is such an idiot?
I are a Gradidgit
I are a literate engineer.
These clowns are not intellectually tall enough to have been allowed on the ride to begin with.
The problem with a “Director of Graduate Studies” is they are really the most useless professor you can find. Their sole job is to push paper around. The departments select the graduates, teach the courses, and manage the research. Occasionally, we have to endure badly worded liberal arts wokeness from the “Director”, but then we just go on and do what we need to do. Physics, chemistry, math, and engineering just try not to say “idiot” out loud and go back to analyzing data.
Loomis grew up in the same ‘systemic racist’ community as everyone else.
Loomis is white; as such he can not help being racist.
Every thing that Loomis does, says, writes, comes from a racist bent and cannot be trusted;
‘This is why I have so much contempt for those, including myself, who “just want the truth.” The truth is racist!’
(If unwilling to accept the above, Mr Loomis must admit to hypocrisy as well.)
Sounds like he has a lot in common with Michael Mann!
University of Rhode Island and Director of Graduate Studies Erik Loomis wrote: “Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist because they are developed by racists who live in a racist society, whether they identify as racists or not.”
Erik Loomis – I have news for you: based on your logic, every single thing and every single idea on this planet is racist. Do I hear you say that natural things, like trees for example, are not racist? Oh dear, you have missed the quote “A poem lovely as a tree”. Poems by your definition are racist, and therefore trees by association are also racist. I suggest you hand back everything you have, including your clothes, and purge your mind of all thoughts that relate in any way to the thoughts of others. Basically, everything. In particular, that means that you can no longer use terms such as energy, matter, force, light, space and time. Oh, and you also can’t use the word ‘racist’ – that word was itself coined by a racist, Richard Henry Pratt, in 1902. Yes, he was a real racist: ““A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one,” Pratt said. “In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”“. Basically, all you have left is silence. Except that silence is racism. So now you can’t speak, and you can’t be silent. That may sound difficult, but it really isn’t at all difficult because that concept uses logic, which you rate as racist and therefore not allowable. No need to thank me, it has been a pleasure helping you.
I was going to say that it sounds like, if we eliminate everything he calls “racist”, he’s advocating a return to the stone age. But they had fire back then.
What came before the stone age?
Racists.
It’s the answer to everything apparently.
It is a hard subject, apparently way to hard for you folks. I’d suggest you guys apply for something at your level. There is a shortage of dog catchers.
I would suggest shark washing.
I was thinking Monkey Nard Sniffer but they’re undereducated for that position
Rather like science under Stalin, with Lysenko, or science under Hitler, with “Jewish physics” being condemned.
Intersectionality is a silly game of injustice collection, devised to resurrect as a zombie Marxism, which is quite dead, to anyone who cares about evidence. Of course, the Social Justice Warriors involved hold evidence in contempt, treating it as a Dead White European Male standard. Feelings are all that really matter!
A modern day rendition of the pacific cargo cults and the focus on witches and superstition of times past. These people have as much understanding of the practice of physics as the pacific islanders had of the mechanisms that brought planes to land on their island, bringing goods and food beyond their technological reach. They mistake physics as something one “knows,” some kind of factual knowledge that can be read in a book or learned from a story. And conjured up by donning suitable hats and waving flags replicating the ones the airmen used for guiding aircraft to island landings during the war. The are unaware that physics is something one does, not somethings one knows. They are unaware of the notion Feynman captured when he said that “Science doesn’t teach anything, experience teaches.”
The best outcome is also most likely, that this rabble will have fun, party on, enjoy the friendship of like minds, and run through a good bit of money producing nothing but momentary feelings of their supporters and themselves. Some of us have seen similar mobs in the past. Timothy Leary’s turn on, tune in, drop out, the rise of remote communes, and the surety that the age of Aquarius is upon us and there will be no more war, nothing but love and peace for all forever. At best it will just fade away. At worst it will descend into criminality, dangerous drugs, and senseless violence as in the past. At the far end of worst it could lead to a cultural revolution reminiscent of Mao or Pol Pot, once these people turn to forcing their views on others, especially if anyone actually gives them that power.
In the meantime, I have work to do and don’t see any use in letting these idiots intrude in my thoughts any further.
Loomis also said that he has contempt for people who “just want the data.”
That’s OK, that antisocial sneer and ten bucks might get him a doughnut. The rest of the human race, who’ve actually contributed to improvements in human welfare through their knowledge of the behaviors of solids, liquids and gases in the various states of weather that humans live in, will largely reserve the contempt he deserves for private discussions, and continue their beneficial acts and beliefs.
He is a professor of history. I wonder if that is a concentration in Marxist history, as most historians I know actually prefer to work from data even if they then twist it into some strange perversion of it.
This article exceeded all my expectations…
For stupidity.
Statistics is a sub-set of mathematics. So the ancients were all racist. Before it was even a term. 😉
The Ancients were all Old White Men. People of color didn’t come into being until after Noah
I think if you look the Egyptians were not white
They were certainly highly educated with very advanced medicines
The white people only really appeared as an advance group in the middle ages
They we’re also after Noah
There weren’t and Greeks or Romans? I knew stories about them were pure fantasy!
Was not the fratricide Cain marked before Shem?
Wait…do you mean that the great flood didn’t kill all that wasn’t on the ark?
I’m willing to bet that the not so good perfessor would also declare that it impossible of a person of color to be a racist.
I welcome his concomitant rejection of all technology, including the internet, the power grid, his home, car, and office, all medicines and health care, and everything else since man learned how to make fire and form spearheads. He humor will not be missed.
Every living thing must then be racist if evolution is one species dominating the others be they a plant, an animal or even a bacteria or a virus. Is it racist to spray a herbicide to kill the weeds in a crop needed to feed the human race?
Speciest.
Somebody has a rather skewed view if the world if xe thinks these fields aren’t studied in Japan, China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, New Guinea, …
Those are the only enlightened places. All others will become
indarkenedindoctrinatedIt wasn’t exhaustive – the ellipsis indicates an incomplete list.
There are very few places where these fields are not studied or practiced.
In their own little world where Reason does not exist.
daft, daft daft.
I can’t work out whether this was written by ChatGPT, the Postmodernism Generator or SCIGen 🙂
I’d reckon that “Yes it was,m now prove me wrong would be a good start”
Is that attitude just an extension of the “all engineers are (Troglodytes|Neanderthals) meme?
I am a racist. And proud of it. I have every right to be. And, as long as I don’t indulge in racist behaviour the law must protect me.
My best friends are racists too and many of them are of black, of white, of off-white, or scaly green. Will you join me. Don’t think I want the Loomis creature in our gang though
Aren’t we all forgetting that all the debating and discussing seriously this inane proposition (that physics is “racist” – and should be “de-colonised”) takes place in only our Western civilisation?? The majority of human beings is in fact Chinese, Indian, African or Russian.
I doubt that any such idiotic academic papers will appear in universities there – but if they do they will be ridiculed mercilessly, I am sure.
They will succeed. The good news is that it will make it much easier to shut down the universities, demolish their buildings, confiscate their endowments, plow the land under, and sow it with salt. The faculty who perpetrate this crime against reason should be made to row galleys across the oceans. The administrators should be sold into slavery.
This incredible word salad is clearly just thrown out there to justify the oodles of money the Canadian government gave these people to warm their chairs for three years. There is nothing concrete in their work except the part where they say their goal is to get more money for blacks and indigenous people for academic chairs.
It appears that they may have been criticising the education system, and then blaming it on one particular field of study.
And possibly whingeing about some government or another for being involved in hosting an astronomical observatory.
Modern DNA science shows that 99.99% of the human genome is identical in everyone. Therefore, only .01% of it can be racist. People who see racism everywhere need a better hobby.
we share 95% with chimps 🙂
Its actually upwards of 99%
https://www.science.org/content/article/bonobos-join-chimps-closest-human-relatives
And Horses and Donkeys are only 98% genetically similar but still produce a Mule.
The Humanzee might be possible.😁
The Humanzee is the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He was pounding on his typewriter for an infinite time to produce his racist screed.
99% (or 95%) of what number?
Whatever number comprises the entire genome of both species
Don’t we share something like 80% with carrots?
Erik Loomis can’t be right: he is a white man.
Must be the revenge of the historians who failed physics class.
7 Habits of Successfull People is one of the great business books anyone can read. Instead of teaching unsuccessfull people that they are victims, these “do gooders” should be teaching those people the skills that make people successfull.
But that would require hard work and determination. Its far easier to point your finger and scream “racist!”.
The culture of victimization being foisted on people by progressives is designed to keep them on the plantation and dependent. Nobody can succeed self identifying as a victim.