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AMA | February 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are There Things Worth Criticizing Within Physics?

I think the extent to which woke culture has permeated and taken over universities is incredibly exaggerated as someone who's spent a lot of time in universities. I do think that there are trends within physics that are absolutely worth critiquing. But also in both cases, these legitimate issues are taken up as fuel or ammunition would even be a better word for some political background viewpoint that they want to push. The idea that it's groupthink, that it's a crisis and things like that,. again, this is just emotionally charged language that is trying to make the issues more obscure rather than making them clear.

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