To the Politically Correct Science Victors Belong the Spoils?

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In The Chronicles of Riddick, "You keep what you kill" meant that if you eliminate someone, you keep their possessions, title, and so on. There is also a variation on the Golden Rule: "Whoever has the gold makes the rules." This article's title is a variation on another common saying.

This site and others have documented ad nauseum how leftists have been dominating the culture for years. Political things have slopped over into the secular science industry, and identity politics have become prominent. A person's abilities are less important than their identities.

Plush bear chained to treasure chest, Pixabay / Davie Bicker
People have been hired to do jobs where the lives of others are at stake. Do you want a firefighter, police officer, air traffic controller, or even an educator to be someone who passed the requisite exams, or because someone is the first artificial limbed multiracial transsexual? Secularists are using the spoils of culture wars to promote identity politics in the peer review process. They are also encouraging the use of sources based on identity, which this child sees as a form of the genetic fallacy.

Mind you, the political left is comfortable for atheists, anti-Christians, and anti-creationists. The idea that the human mind was created is inconceivable to them. Remember that materialism is not the greed for material goods or attempting to buy happiness. Atheists are materialists because the material things like molecules and atoms are all that exist — no room for God, angels, or spirits. (Of course, atheists must believe in evolution.) Not only is such a worldview is comfortable with the political left, but also the secular science industry.
Recently, figures like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker — household names among popular science fans — have been Canceled in various venues because they refuse to deny that humans — like all primate mammals in our body plan — are sex binary. These former luminaries are discovering that, in emotionally charged matters, atheism and materialism are not the high road to reality-based thinking that they have supposed.

Read the rest over at "When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System."