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Brandon Aldinger is a PhD chemist who works in an industrial research laboratory. He had a lifelong interest in science/faith issues prior to discovering the rich world of classical apologetics in graduate school, and he is passionate about training fellow Christians to think clearly about their faith and equipping them to stand firm within a hostile culture.
Unlike psychology, biology, or medicine, the field of chemistry in which I work once seemed relatively unscathed by the “woke” revolution. Aside from perennial calls for more diversity and one-sided views on climate change, the professional organizations that I belong to have merely dabbled in the politically correct.
Until now, that is.
In October, the American Chemical Society released its “Inclusivity Style Guide” for scientific publications. This extremely long document instructs chemists to examine their results for “what factors contribute to inequities,” “how to describe antifat oppression,” and that “someone’s gender does not dictate what their body looks like.” This so-called style guide is easily the single greatest repository of woke nonsense I have ever encountered — a digital one-stop shop of the most extreme, politically-correct, leftist thinking available today. Very little of it is applicable to chemistry, and even less could be classified as science.
The woke takeover of Big Science — that behemoth of research dollars, Ph.D.s, and lab coats — has finally reached the hard sciences. The world of Big Science ended not with a Big Bang but a whimper. …
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