Activism, Wokeness and the Politicizing of Science— Who’s the Heretic?

Van Livius
8 min readNov 4, 2020

Is Science Entering a Dark Age via Wokeism?

It’s human nature to compete, trade, and negotiate for anything important and of value. Sometimes that may include cheating, cutting corners, and resorting to various unscientific means — but most recently and particularly dangerous, the mainstream narratives and nonessential activism creeping their way into science. Scientists have been known to fake their results and publish them in top scientific journals to trade and negotiate for fame, funding, and other goods. But, at least they performed a masterpiece of falsifying results on certain areas of interest. Nevertheless, when reviewers found out, they immediately removed such articles even if they never carried a direct threat to humankind.

This is not the case with wokeism. Today, the woke don’t even hide their stupidity and lies in Science and everywhere else, they flat-out flaunt them. The danger with activism and wokeness is that lies and blatant allegations lacking evidence, somehow make it into respectable sources. Nowadays, activists can publish fake or imaginary opinions at ease without any barriers. All they need is to join the mob of “institutionalized racism, equity, and anti-white-supremacy”. Most alarming, even if such publications are a threat or danger to…

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Van Livius
Van Livius

Written by Van Livius

Researcher, assistant professor, traveler, a curious mind and WARNING, I’m human; Your support is greatly appreciated!

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