Dear Daniel,
When board members expressed their opinions on social maladies (e.g.
real or apparent sexism, anti-migrant bias, etc.) in the sciences in the
past, that was being (divisively) political too--and thankfully so, I think.
An exhortation to refrain from political issues is, like it or not,
itself political. Why so? Because it implies an exhortation to be
complacent with the status quo level of various social maladies in the
sciences and in the society at large, from which the sciences hardly
stand isolated. (American historian Howard Zinn put it aptly when he
said, "You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train." There's also a nice book
of his of the same name, with some alternative views on other issues you
touch on.)
Best regards,
Navdeep
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Navdeep Sidhu
Germany
Web: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=ZqU1AE0AAAAJ&hl=de
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On 15.02.24 04:40, Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. wrote:
Dear all,
That’s a very nice idea to have an app to combat misinformation that can
undermine the integrity of science and foster mistrust of scientific
inquiry.But to launch such an app raises the obvious question:
Who is to be the arbiter of what is true and what is “misinformation”?
The way to uphold the integrity of science is with a free exchange of
ideas, not an app or document that decides which publication or which
interpretation of the data is real science and which is misinformation.
Thanks go to Bryan Lepore for pointing out that the work of Herbert
Marcuse (a strong advocate of a brand of Marxism once popular in
Germany) led to much violence in the USA.Violent revolutions are how a
great deal of science has been lost during the last several thousand
years of human history, which is why we’re first determining atomic and
near-atomic resolution structures in the 20th and 21st centuries, not
eons ago.
So, my humble request:Can we stick to crystallography and allied fields
of structure determination on this e-mail list, and not digress into
divisive politics, please?
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel
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Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Principal, Himmel Sci Med Com, LLC
E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
URL : https://himmelscimedcom.com <https://himmelscimedcom.com/>
On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 7:52 AM Bryan Lepore <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The idea of "Global Sustainability" can be found in the documents
for the noted projects, so the United Nations "Sustainable
Development Goals" appear to be worth reviewing as background - even
though it appears the UN or UNESCO (below) is irrelevant to them :
“Transformation is the red thread running through all the
Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations’ agenda for
responding to global challenges facing humanity and the planet.
Setting our world on a more sustainable course requires radical
shifts in current development paradigms that are exacerbating
inequalities and imperilling [sic] our common future. This
transition is dependent on new knowledge, research and competences
that only higher education institutions are in a position to
provide, rooted in their historic role of service to society.”
[...]
“In 1964, inspiring the 1968-student revolt a couple of years later,
Herbert Marcuse wrote a key text against “one dimensional man”,
urging universities and campuses around the world to become places
that resisted reductionism. ”
Source:
Parr, et. al.
“Knowledge-driven actions: transforming higher education for global
sustainability”
2022
UNESCO
https://doi.org/10.54675/YBTV1653 <https://doi.org/10.54675/YBTV1653>
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