Woke science

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Fiestapop11

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62 posts

12 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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I stumbled across this

https://www.eeblanguageproject.com/

If you look at the harmful phrases scientists can use that can be harmful it turns out "discovery" is one.

Tricky ...

Thoughts ?

bigpriest

1,577 posts

129 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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As in 'discovering' populated locations when the correct term is 'visiting'?

Ezra

530 posts

26 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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Must've been a dissertation from 1st April last year.

motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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"Championing inclusive terminology in ecology and evolution"

CHAMPIONING! This implies one superior entity with innumerable subordinates! Harmful to those whose ethos is not competitive. Better to say supporting... banghead

Simpo Two

85,151 posts

264 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Who pays for this rubbish?

Anyway, you can have some fun suggesting 'harmful' words.

eg 'Cyanide' is a harmful word, propose it be replaced with 'plant-based liquid'...

NB I see that 'the team' are all in their 20s so this kind of st is all they know: https://www.eeblanguageproject.com/team

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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When you have universities offering social justice degrees they have to make some non-jobs like this to keep the ball rolling.

Simpo Two

85,151 posts

264 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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If you sign in you can tell these poor sheltered creatures about a word that you find offensive or harmful, and suggest a replacement word for it.

I told them that I found the word 'woke' offensive and should be replaced with 'nonsense'.


I urge you all to get stuck in and give them a glimpse of the big scary world that lies outside academia.

ATG

20,487 posts

271 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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All seen to be from North American instructions. Not very diverse. Cultural imperialists. They've hurt my feelings. Boo hoo hoo hoo. Want my mummy.

Scabutz

7,482 posts

79 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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“Citizen science” is harmful to non-citizens who are excluded by that language

Eh?

They are not part if it so why would they be included?

Let's ban organic chemistry, because its harmful to non-organic compounds who are excluded by that language.

Can someone stop the world please I want to get off.

808 Estate

2,079 posts

90 months

Thursday 23rd March 2023
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I see they feel "Indian" should be replaced with Indigenous. Obviously an American outlook. I am quite sure most people in India are proud to be Indian. Anyway, im off for an Indigenous takeway. biggrin

iwantagta

1,323 posts

144 months

Thursday 23rd March 2023
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FFS don't use Man/Woman you backward pricks use Male/Female.
.....OY!


PastelNata

4,384 posts

199 months

Thursday 23rd March 2023
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I don't see the issue here at all.

'Discovering' a new place, population etc is to experience it for the first time. It is a more accurate phrase that to 'visit' since they may have visited the same before.

'Championing' is to defend the cause of or vigorously support. Again, nothing incorrect there.

This language is not new - perhaps those who are unhappy have just not been exposed to it in their usual reading or circles. smile

Dingu

3,686 posts

29 months

Thursday 23rd March 2023
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Simpo Two said:
If you sign in you can tell these poor sheltered creatures about a word that you find offensive or harmful, and suggest a replacement word for it.

I told them that I found the word 'woke' offensive and should be replaced with 'nonsense'.


I urge you all to get stuck in and give them a glimpse of the big scary world that lies outside academia.
Like retirement boredom perhaps?


I jest! smile

Fiestapop11

Original Poster:

62 posts

12 months

Friday 24th March 2023
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I was thinking about this since posting it and it does seem to be connected to something akin to Johnny Morris, all those years back who did kids animals programs

He is in disfavour nowadays as Anthropomorphism run riot apparently.

That's 30 points on scrabble by the way and stealing tiles.

Science should be science but popularising it gets the younger generation on board.

Saying you can't have certain words .. that is a negative aspect that does not foster the scientific goal of incremental expansion without any constraints.

Words are just words after all.

Simpo Two

85,151 posts

264 months

Friday 24th March 2023
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Fiestapop11 said:
Saying you can't have certain words .. that is a negative aspect that does not foster the scientific goal of incremental expansion without any constraints.
I suggest that having to say 'A' when you mean 'B' perverts the course of science.

Are these loons science graduates or arts graduates?

As for calling an 'A' a 'B', did I hear a new variety of sexual persuasion called a 'DPD'?

Scarletpimpofnel

665 posts

17 months

Sunday 26th March 2023
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Simpo Two said:
I suggest that having to say 'A' when you mean 'B' perverts the course of science.

Are these loons science graduates or arts graduates?

As for calling an 'A' a 'B', did I hear a new variety of sexual persuasion called a 'DPD'?
I know someone doing a PhD at Cambs Uni.

As Cambs Uni is the premier uni for "cancelling" stuff it doesn't agree with (not necessarily wrong just wrong in their PC view) I can't help but feel his research which is in a controversial area has to be seen as PC not actually scientifically correct for it to allow him to gain his PhD. Therefore research from such places that repeatedly cancel what they don't like has little value as it cannot be trusted as being correct scientifically, as the PC view has to dominate the facts.

Simpo Two

85,151 posts

264 months

Sunday 26th March 2023
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Scarletpimpofnel said:
As Cambs Uni is the premier uni for "cancelling" stuff it doesn't agree with (not necessarily wrong just wrong in their PC view) I can't help but feel his research which is in a controversial area has to be seen as PC not actually scientifically correct for it to allow him to gain his PhD. Therefore research from such places that repeatedly cancel what they don't like has little value as it cannot be trusted as being correct scientifically, as the PC view has to dominate the facts.
Spot on.

I think a high number of PhDs are effectively worthless and do little more than keep academics in academia. But here again we need to make a distinction between science and 'art'. An old schoolfriend of mine was, shall we say, 'normal' until he went to Cambridge as a mature student and got a PhD in history. He is now an unhappy socialist, but an expert in arguing because they trained him to argue. Every time we met at a reunion he'd start going off on a political tirade. Only after I told him he was acting like Frank Doberman (of Fast Show fame) did he wind it in a bit!

DodgyGeezer

40,158 posts

189 months

Sunday 26th March 2023
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Simpo Two said:
As for calling an 'A' a 'B', did I hear a new variety of sexual persuasion called a 'DPD'?
yup - confirmation will arrive by post

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Sunday 26th March 2023
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A PhD is essentially an apprenticeship in academic research. If you’re lucky, you might advance knowledge in the field in a significant way, but mostly you will acquire a very deep knowledge of a very narrow slice of a subject, and in the process you will demonstrate that you have learned how to conduct research.

Simpo Two

85,151 posts

264 months

Sunday 26th March 2023
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otolith said:
A PhD is essentially an apprenticeship in academic research. If you’re lucky, you might advance knowledge in the field in a significant way, but mostly you will acquire a very deep knowledge of a very narrow slice of a subject, and in the process you will demonstrate that you have learned how to conduct research.
Agreed. The issue for me is whether the research advances human knowledge in any useful way. So a PhD in vaccines, great. A PhD in football, not great.

I can only conclude that 'woke science' is an oxymoron.