“The history of work and jobs is littered with disruption, change, and we live today as much with the relics of old ways of working as we do the moulds of new forms we are creating,” argues Julia Hobsbawm. | https://bit.ly/4mfL6To
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“Given that science is done by humans, its research agenda inevitably reflects what humans care about,” argues Stephen John. | https://buff.ly/3PAyzvW
Key decisions in science must appeal to moral and political values. But it shouldn’t be the government policing what is acceptable.
Science isn't woke, but it is political | Stephen John
The U.K.’s science minister vowed to kick “woke ideology out of science”. While it might sound like a sensible policy to keep science and politics apart, in practice that’s impossible. Many key decisions in science require an appeal to moral and political values, argues Stephen John. But it shouldn’t be the government policing which values are acceptable.