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In a sweeping conversation sparked by his new book The War on Science, Lawrence Krauss charts how well-intentioned campus DEI bureaucracies, politicized funding mandates, and “language-as-violence” taboos are eroding the core scientific virtues of open inquiry and empirical scepticism, while drawing historical parallels from Lysenkoism to today’s hiring rubrics and challenging listeners to defend freedom of thought with the same passion they reserve for social justice. He then pivots from diagnosis to remedy, outlining a five-point rescue plan—slashing ideological litmus tests, restoring merit-based evaluation, insulating grant agencies from mission creep, teaching students to steel-man opposing views, and benchmarking success against China’s unencumbered research surge—arguing that only by re-centering evidence over ideology can science remain humanity’s most reliable truth-seeking enterprise.

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Key Takeaways:

00:00 Intro
01:04 The most dangerous idea threatening science today
02:35 The role of universities and academic freedom
10:26 Tenure and indirect costs in academia
14:58 Sanctions against free speech
17:39 The problem with tuition
18:42 Decolonializing STEM
23:57 What Trump is doing to address these issues
28:03 Free market education?
36:46 Judging a book by its cover
38:44 The distortion of science during COVID
44:12 Inequality in science
48:43 If Lawrence were president of the US
52:33 Audience questions
55:28 Outro

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Additional resources:

📚 The War On Science by Lawrence Krauss: https://a.co/d/6ntEbll

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