By Jo Nova
Let’s not put race politics in our science lessons
Science has no race — it is true, or it isn’t. 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’s 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.
The UK Labour government wants to overhaul school science — if only they knew what science was. They got an “independent” review to tell them what they wanted to hear and invited the grovelling Royal Society’s of Science to sell out science to the latest Woke intellectual fashion. Shame on them.
Real science is about evidence, not the color of your skin, or the continent your last 1,000 ancestors lived on. It can’t be “de-Westernized” because it isn’t “Western” — the laws of physics work just as well in England as they do in Bangladesh. Hypersonic rockets don’t 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.
Naturally the UK Labour government want to screw that all up, as if science was just another kind of Arts degree:
School science lessons could be ‘de-Westernised’ to highlight discoveries by other cultures in ‘woke’ Labour overhaul of the curriculum
by Greg Heffer at the Daily Mail:
Big Government, payer of almost all the science grants, asked the “science” societies to make up stuff for their PR campaign:
In response to the Department for Education’s call for evidence, top science bodies stressed the importance of teaching ‘non-Western’ contributions to science.
So they can turn science into another social studies unit:
The Royal Society of Biology, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Institute of Physics also said pupils should learn why some cultures were ‘less able to claim credit and ownership for ideas’.
…the Royal Society of Biology’s own submission stated: ‘It is essential that all children feel included in the sciences by valuing their experiences and through the thoughtful use of contexts, imagery and narratives.
All children need to know what science is, they don’t need to be patronized. There’s 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.
All children should “feel included” in science because the laws of physics and chemistry apply to them; because they use phones, fly in planes and get x-rays.
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.
We don’t want more social studies in our science lessons, we want more science in our social studies…
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.
Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, 27th December, 1855
Killing off Western heroes is something communists and enemies want
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.
It’s a stupid way to run a country:
The Royal Society of Biology also said it had sought expertise on ‘decolonising the curriculum’ and for a ‘no more heroes’ approach to teaching science in schools.
This would mean ‘avoiding prescriptive lists of historic figures in biology’ and instead ‘exploring opportunities for local, recogniseable, diverse historic and contemporary figures through which discovery and exploration of biological concepts can be explored’.
President Xi would be pleased.
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.
Top image by Andy from Pixabay
Brilliantly said Jo
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The UK motherland will be no more very soon, I fear.
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This rubbish never ends. The more outlandish the more it seems to be accepted by the woke and identity mob.
I can foresee many animated discussions between myself and my grandchildren in years to come!
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David, I think I have failed on that. My 26 yo grandson, one of three children of very left wing parents (including our daughter, unfortunately) studiously fails to reply to emails I send with interesting scientific information on many of the subjects covered here. He even fails to acknowledge an email inquiring as to whether he received the first email, and I know he did! Sad really, but apart from that he is a splendid young man and I admire his many good attributes.
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Publish your will, omitting him from the list. I bet he’ll respond then. Maybe he’ll confirm your choices.
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Ian, unfortunately I think I would have to omit the whole family, including my daughter, if I judged them on that alone. In many other ways they are wonderful people and I love them all dearly.
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Israel has produced a disproportionate number of Nobel Prize winners. Between 1901 and 2022, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to more than 900 individuals and organizations. At least 213 of them have been to people who are believed to be Jewish or raised Jewish.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-nobel-prize-laureates
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Yes.
Jews have won 23.6% of the world’s Nobel Prizes with 0.2% of the world’s population. Of the 216 prizes 9 were the Peace Prize (from Wikipedia to 2023).
916 Nobel Prizes have been awarded overall as of 2023.
Ashkenazi (European origin) Jews have an average IQ of 115 which is one standard deviation above other Caucasians. Plus commitment to both family and educational advancement also helps.
Mohammedans have won 15 Nobel Prizes but that includes 8 “Peace” Prizes including the arch terrorist Yasser Arafat.
So they have won 1.6% of Nobel Prizes, including the Peace Prize, with 24.1% of world population.
Incidentally, Einstein never got the 1921 Nobel Prize for Relativity specifically but it was for “his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”.
The paper was entitled “On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light”.
A (outdated, 1901-2000) breakdown of religion of Nobel laureates is at https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_of_Nobel_Prize_winners_between_1901_and_2000.png
Christians 65.4%
Jews 21.1%
Atheists 10.5%
Buddhist 1.1%
Mohammedans 0.8%
Hindu 0.7%
Other 0.6%
No doubt I’ll get the usual large number of red thumbs if I say anything remotely pro-semitic.
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As I write this, you have 4 down votes from a pool of 25, 16%.
By quoting statistics covering the prizes issued by others, I wonder why they feel they have the right to vote you down. If the data had instead said that the awards were mostly won by monkeys swinging from trees, then that detail would be a fact, stating it does make the detail more or less, (morally), right or wrong. It’s just a fact.
So, to those people who down vote, I think you owe an explanation as to why you vote that way, just one line should be enough, it’s not a lot of work. If you can’t or won’t provide your reason, then either it wasn’t worth saying or you weren’t worth listening to. Which one is it?
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They even down-voted your request for an explanation, Ian, and still no explanation…
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I’m starting to fall into the mode where I think they are not worth listening to.
Any Epsilon semi-moron can throw a vote onto the screen but it takes character and ability beyond the pale to actually write for the benefit of others and to allow others to cast their comments.
So, unless comments are offered, something to counter the discussion, then all subsequent down votes will be considered the work of ESMs.
I wonder if they know the book that that label came from? They aren’t trolls anymore. ESMs to the fore.
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>I wonder if they know…
Huxley’s not on the senior secondary reading list any more, and neither are Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, or JS Mill.
Even during my time, when they were on the list, even among my generation I discovered so many never read the books so they’re ignórant of a helluva lot more than ESMs.
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I gave your a comment a green thumb. I wouldn’t exactly describe myself as pro-Semitic but the numbers for Jewish Nobel Prize winners are quite remarkable. If l gave a red thumb, I’d do the courtesy of backing it up with a comment justifying my POV.
The red thumbers probably wouldn’t be so critical of an article on East Africans dominating middle and long distance running events at the Olympics.
https://populous.com/article/born-to-run-why-do-east-africans-dominate-long-distance-running-events
There are several cultural, socio-economic and geographical factors that underlie the dominance of Kenyan runners in distance races. It’s nothing to do with ideology. It’s the altitude, a lack of transport and the culture of running that is necessitated by that lack of transport.
On a side note, it’s refreshing to read an article by a journalist who is prepared to get down and dirty and just report what they see. A lot of science has been based on observations and objective note taking, it would be nice if modern day institutions could adopt this age old practice.
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You’ve castigated the person’s right to disagree. You’re wrong, their right to be stupid and hateful is a bedrock to freedom. If idiots don’t speak out, how are we to recognize them?
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It’s the UK LaboUr government. LabOr is the Australian version, adopting the American spelling for some reason.
[Thanks! Will fix. I did not realize. – Jo]
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Philip, #4,
____Our “fathers” who started out at Barcaldine were going with the American financial model – hence, Lab0r down here. Sands have shifted since then.
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Lets hope they can get rid of the UK Labor morons before 2029 and if not the country is lost.
A complete generation of kids will not understand anything useful outside of Labor’s BS and fra-d and we can only hope Nigel Farage has the strength to take up the fight against these vile parasites and anti- science junkies.
How can a country that started the Industrial Revolution sink so far and so fast? And Labor in Australia are trying their best to destroy our environments and repeating their vandalism every 15 to 20 years. And all of their lunacy will waste trillions of $ and zero change to the climate.
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Unfortunately, of the greatest country on earth, 33% of them are hard core rusted on socialists.
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Summat fer nuffink.
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I presume you are taking that figure from the percentage of the votes cast that went to Labour – one of the lowest proportions of the vote achieved by a government. However, when looking at the electorate the vote for Labour was just 20% of those registered. And looking further, many of those who voted were voting against the socialist Tory government and not for a Labour government. This Government of the Student Union has in just 6 months managed to crater the little support it did have as it shows itself to be vindictive, ignorant and totally incompetent. With a recession looming by Spring, our local elections in May will be a good popularity poll on Never Here, No Idea, Free Gear, Two Tier Kier. Already 20 Labour councillors at a Midlands council have announced that they are now an independent group and that Labour no longer control the council.
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“How can a country that started the Industrial Revolution sink so far and so fast?”
That’s easy. Fabian Socialists, white-anting the society that nurtured them, and tolerated their ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ conduct. No need for the Leninist-style bloody revolution to usher in the Communist Utopia – just ideologues like Two-Tier Kier; and a nation lulled to sleep by a complicit media and education system.
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Anti-whitism is the core of most of our problems. Especially for non-white people. Look at what happened to the non-whites of Rhodesia for example. They would be living in first world conditions if they didn’t adopt anti-whitism.
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Speaking of Out of Africa:
Today’s lesson is on gravity. Thousands of years ago Chief Mbotu Swazalaylee took a break during his trek across Africa when relocating his tribe. While lying under the shade of a hippopotamus skin held aloft by some of his slaves a flock of small birds started flying at the skin trying to peck off the bits of rotting flesh still attached to it. Some of the slaves who had been fanning Chief Mbotu tried to swot them away but to no avail.
The Chief’s number 15 wife, knowing how brutal the Chief could become when annoyed, picked up a stone and threw it at the birds however missing the target the stone instead hit the Chief in the head.
The assembled slaves steeled themselves for the rage that was now to be released by the Chief.
To their amazement the Chief instead leapt to his feet excitedly yelling how the birds continued to fly yet the rock fell to the ground. He then called one of his advisors and told him to record the event in song so that it could be passed down to his future generations and this song remains part of the rich cultural and scientific tapestry of the Swazalaylee people.
Thousands of years later in the 17th century western scientists regularly used data collected from around the world, including Africa, in their quest for scientific knowledge. No doubt Sir Isaac Newton would have heard of the Chief Mbotu rock and bird song, and this would have been fore front of his mind when he suffered a similar event when an apple hit him on the head, and he ascribed the word “gravity” to Chief Mbotu’s earlier discovery.
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No doubt Sir Isaac Newton would have heard of the Chief Mbotu rock and bird song….
Really. I’m betting the apple didn’t actually fall far from the tree on that one.
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My knowledge of the history of science does start with China, India, and the Babylonians.
Where did our number system start: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0?
Of course, much later and in the USA, George Washington Carver could be cited as an example – and has been. Otherwise, how do I know about his work with crops?
If UK school teachers don’t know about such things, what do they not know and when did they not know it?
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The numeric system started at 0, after the Arabs invented the word.
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According to historian William Dalrymple in his most elegant book, “The Golden Road”, credit must be given to “the Indosphere” in the period from about 250 BCE to about 1000 CE, when Buddhism and Sandscrit were being spread around Asia, for ideas like the system of 9 numbers plus 0, which is used universally today. The Arabs are credited for recognising the worth of the Indian scholars and for the preservation of critical texts in their libraries. Western scholars benefited from the Arab invasion of Spain and subsequent access to the Arabic libraries.
Of course, this is history and credit should be given where credit is due. What the West did with the knowledge provided by the Arabic scholars is another matter. And the big question is why Asians did not follow a similar path, until the West brought them up to speed only as recently as the past two centuries.
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Great book. Reading it at the moment. The Anarchy is also worth reading.
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The zero came last, after 1 through to 9 was invented.
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As Richard pointed out It was the Hindus who first used the concept of zero in mathematics. The Arabs learnt it from them and their knowledge of mathematics, which was itself based to a significant extent on translations of Ancient Greek work, subsequently spread to Europe. A lot of the translations from Ancient Greek were made by Nestorian Christians in the countries conquered by the Arabs in the early waves of Muslim expansion.
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Developing knowledge is important and so is what you do with it. Back in the 90s I was admiring a long mural depicting a timeline of Chinese culture vs European culture over the last couple of thousand years up to about WW2. It showed how China had a sophisticated culture while Europeans were subsisting in mud huts.
I remarked to a friend ” so basically , they had a 2000 year head start and stuffed it up” This drew some glares from the locals, happily it was Taiwan so that was all I got.
Over the last 30 years China has accelerated away obviously, but it remains to be seen if they can avoid their historical penchant for shooting themselves in the foot and setting themselves back decades.
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Maybe Netflix could do a series on Sir Isaac Newton and depict him as a black man. So, similar to “Bridgerton”, where the queen was depicted that way.
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As Mathematics is inherently racist, it should be banned from all sciences.
Not just in the UK, but everywhere. Persuading China will be tough ..
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I disagree. We should instead remove all white mathematics, starting with the numbers that we use. We should drop the white system invented by the Romans, and adopt the arabic number system, including zero which originated I believe in India.
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Can we know how society and science would have developed without having zero ?
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“…some cultures were ‘less able to claim credit and ownership for ideas’.”
Of course no examples are available because dastardly Western scientists stole those ideas and destroyed the evidence.
A coconut fell on a Polynesian’s head. Newton changed it to an apple.
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I’m always amazed how the science or origins of fully evolved Humans has changed over the last 25 years.
Chris Hichens in the late 1990s debates always quoted Dawkins etc and claimed that modern Humans had been present for about 50,000 to 100,000 years BP , but soon he’d changed to perhaps 150,000 years.
Today that has doubled to 300,000 + years and I know a number of Scientists think it is still too short an estimate for fully evolved Humans.
Who knows, but perhaps our modern Human origins could be pushed further back in time to perhaps 400 K to 500 K by 2050?
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When an archeologist finds a bone that’s older than every other bone they have found, the start date for the species changes to the date of the new bone. They never work out that the fact that they keep finding older bones means that there are very likely even older bones not yet found.
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Yes, but were they homo sapiens? And has such dramatic evolution stopped? And why should it stop?
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No – the evolution has not stopped, as we in the UK [and perhaps other nations . . .] are now helping those who can’t – or won’t – contribute to society to procreate, and socially looking after their offspring, even where there is, sadly, a significant physical or mental problem.
This is gradually altering the gene pool – remember that Darwin used the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’.
Then, he meant those most suited – physically, socially, temperamentally, even intellectually – to pass on their genes to the next generation.
It still does.
But what is ‘suitable’ these days is [very?] different to how it was 100, 1000, or 10,000 years ago.
Now – getting society to pay for your housing, entertainment, medical needs, even food [if not your contraception] is seen as fine – in at least a part of society . . .
Any guesses where this will lead the UK?
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” They never work out that the fact that they keep finding older bones means that there are very likely even older bones not yet found.”
Not at all. They look for older bones all the time because it is apparent to them and many others, that there are almost certainly older bones yet to be found and by finding they are pushing back the ages.
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That’s my point. By finding older bones they are not pushing back the ages.
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“By finding older bones they are not pushing back the ages.
Of course they are. If they find a bone that is found to be older than any other similar bones they are pushing back the ages. They certainly aren’t bringing the ages forward
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Here’s a few minutes of Chris Hitchens taking the pi-s out of his opponent over 10 years ago on the origins of Humans.
Here he quotes Dawkins then extended guesstimate of 100 K to 250 K years BP. But he uses 100 K BP for the sake of the argument. Very funny bloke and one of the first to try and warn us of the dangers of the so called religion of peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD_WptjCMPI
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Science only changes when it gets unsettled.
But it is damn well settled until then.
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Newzild – punching above its weight – leading the world . . . .
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/2545-matauranga-maori-and-science
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The UK Gov wants to de-Westernize everything: everything except, of course, their foppy titles and fat pensions.
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I wonder if Sir Starmer would object if he was titled Caliph Toolmakersson?
Er . . . Caliph Tool for short.
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This has already been done in Australia.
E.g.:
https://www.csiro.au/en/research/indigenous-science
https://youtu.be/c8GQflkhC2A
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/speakingout/first-inventors/102512954
https://www.ncacl.org.au/atsi_resource/the-first-scientists-deadly-inventions-and-innovations-from-australias-first-people/
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/the-first-inventors
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Here Andrew Bolt lashes the Bandt loony about his claims that Aussies will lead to a climate collapse and he also quotes another Greens donkey who tells us more BS about what Hamas really wants to do to the Jews. And Dr Finkel’s statement to the Senate supports Bolt about CC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDLOML7ExHE
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Science is a methodology … not the subject.
That methodology has been refined and refined and refined again – since man first started looking for answers about how the world worked around them.
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Abandoning the last 600-700 years of western refinements places us in the pseudo-religious Dark Ages.
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Good times ahead for the pseudo-religion of climate change – where you will be tithed into poverty…
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This is megalomania by politicians. Not much different to Climate Change and cow farts. The same level of comprehension.
It is offensive to them that there are real Laws of Physics, Laws of Chemistry, Laws of mathematics.
Laws should be decided by politicians like themselves and legislated by parliament!
That’s where all the really smart people are. The ones who failed physics and chemistry and mathematics but managed to rise to the top anyway. Like bankers. The bit on the top of the vat. There’s a word for it.
And have no idea how their telephones work. Or a flush toilet for that matter.
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Just because the nongs don’t understand any of it is no reason to ban it.
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It applies to mathematics as well.
Indigenous counting, presumably with a counting system of “one, two or many”…
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No wonder they get so wound up by the race chapter the The Bell Curve book. It is so obvious by just general observation we clearly need to change the world, disable the ability to observe or just ban and burn the book.
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Its absurd to think that all races are equal in all things. Equivalent yes, all humans are valuable and all lives matter, but not equal. And racism is bad. Depending on evolutionary pressures, some may have a predisposition to athleticism (chasing game for long distances), tolerance of dehydration (desert environment), ability to work at high altitudes (Sherpas who have high blood oxygenation due to a mutation), or problem solving (people in temperate to cold zones who had to work out how to predict seasons for agriculture and work out solutions to keeping warm). Academic and athletic statistics point towards certain obvious undeniable trends. Of course, its not to say someone can’t also excel in an endeavour that their predecessor population didn’t evolve for. There are many examples of that as well.
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No one says all people are equal. This is an extraordinarily common reading of all men are created equal. In the US Constitution ” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.’
But they are created equal under the law with equal rights. That the poorest man is the same under the law as the King. It is the basic tenet of Judeo Christian religion too and its greatest attraction around the world. It humbles the greatest kings. And elevates and educates and trains and enables the poorest people. It has been the guiding spirit of Christian civilizations too.
It does not mean all people are equal and some more equal than others. Nor does it support DEI. And Post Modernism, reconstructed Marxism sows division by insisting that if you are less capable, that will be ignored. And that every basketball team should include a dwarf, proportional skin colour, religion and multiple genders.
Equality of opportunity is not equality of outcome. People should be judged on their merits regardless of race and creed. But meritocracy is the natural enemy of the Post Modern education system where merit is abhored, tests are shunned, skills are dismissed and facts are ignored. All this is anti science, anti intelligence, anti social, even extreme racism and the basis for absolutism by the ruling classes. The elites. Do not educate the poor or they will challenge you.
And no one has done education or administration better than the British. It is a tragedy for the British to now change course and rubbish meritocracy as oppression. Education and quality of education is the basis of all advancement and finding the best person for the job, regardless of race and religion. And to do this on the basis of facts as in examination and testing. Who wants a surgeon or pilot or mentor who scored 50% but was the right colour or religion or social group? That’s when the door fall off the aircraft because no one did their job.
Like Climate Change, this is an assault on Rational Science and liberty by the natural enemies of education, the elites who seek to enshrine their own position by denying science and the pursuit of excellence. From that pursuit comes a better society. Not rule by a self appointed elite, especially academics who have never had a real job where they actually had to achieve something.
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I wonder how they will distort history to highlight Australian Aboriginal scientific discoveries! All smoke and mirrors?
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Aborigines had mirrors?
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See links I posted above, including this one:
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/the-first-inventors
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I always wondered why Neil Armstrong did not find any Aboriginal artefacts in the Sea of Tranquility.
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Some good could come of this stupid idea if the list of important discoveries and advances – and where they came from – was done honestly:that would immediately demonstrate that the whole modern world is the creation of western civilisation. And that the claims of primitive cultures (the first candidate springs to mind instantly!) to have contributed significantly are just ridiculous. But of course there is no chance of anything like a fair-minded and honest appraisal of such things.
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This will be about telling lies to children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-qsVS8zeU
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Ever wonder why phone service contracts switched from pay per use to bundles to sustain access to service?
Across Africa, people developed a morse code of missed calls to communicate, meaning once they were connected with a phone, no more money to be made out of them.
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After 13 centuries the achievements of Islam are awesome. Just look at the Middle East where the tribes are living in harmony at each other throat, where the people are mostly beggars and hungry, holding up their hands, where the leaders and elites are corrupt to the core and armed themselves to the teeth to keep itthat way.
The West, in particular the USA, not even 200 years after its inception put a man on the Moon.
Decolonising science? Just eff off.
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If you dewesternise science then there won’t be much left. That’s the only point worth making as a first response, and it takes just 10 words.
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Brilliantly put, Jo!
This undergraduate Marxist ideology which is deliberately permeating Western democracies has received its wake up (woke up?) call in the US. However, with elections still to be held in the other Marxist enclaves of Australia and sadly four and a half years away in the UK, the fight for common sense and critical thinking must ramp up to show the actual facts which counter this dangerous ideology being preached in schools and enabled by hypocrites in corporations.
The spotlight of questioning is the antidote to brainwashing, as the indoctrinated don’t have a defensible answer. Especially when their own rhetoric and the results of their policy failure are used in questions.
You can’t defeat wholesale brainwashing by debating, you need to make individuals question the facts and interpret thru their private ambitions or priorities. US voters did that. The mounting destruction of the Australian economy and society now crosses racial constructs as the defeat of the Voice, coupled with the backstep of the Woolworths Australia Day merch decision, shows sycophants in Corporations will only back Marxist division while they think the propaganda trashmedia will fortify their profit margin.
The US insurance company Allstate, doubling down with Marxist racial division, dressed up as tolerance, with their CEO address to start their sponsorship of a recent College Gridiron final and hasty removal due to public backlash on social media, shows how UK and Australians have to combat the deliberate divisions being forced into the West.
This statement by the CEO of Allstate;‘We need to overcome an addiction to divisiveness and negativity… & accept people’s imperfections and differences” as a response to the New Orleans terrorist attack shows these hypocrites live in an echo chamber……until forced out of it by critical thinkers.
The share prices and loss of policy holders will determine their future. Will Britons and Australians see the true power of the people and question the rhetoric to redress this 3% activist class?
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The Brits are only catching up to what we have been doing in Australia for years. Our science curriculum at schools is full of indigenous cross curriculum content that seeks to elevate indigenous knowledge systems into something it is not. Same to in mathematics. In fact our national science framework (I think that is what it is called) puts indigenous knowledge systems at the centre of all things science and seeks to fuse “western science” with “indigenous science”. It is all about downgrading Western culture and elevating indigenous culture to be equal, or even superior, often with claims of indigenous people being the “first scientists”. It sadly debases the meaning of science and is patronising of indigenous history and culture, ironically applying western centric measures of achievement in the pursuit of decolonising the national curriculum, while downgrading their spiritual basis for understanding the world as they saw it.
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Here is Peter Ridd on British science and technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZQS4LBugk
Get rid of all that and what have you, Left?
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Does that mean Russian science will be allowed?
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