Laurence M. Krauss: "Science Goes Rogue" (Better Title: Science Loses Its Goddamned Mind)

Political correctness / "social justice" is insanity.
Just one wee selection:

This week, Scientific American, once a rigorous scientific publication, published an opinion column by several young scientists known for their campaign to call a “scientific strike” against racism following the death of George Floyd. The authors advocate changing the name of the James Webb Space Telescope because Webb, a former NASA administrator, was administrator when the federal government did not adequately respect LGBTQ rights. Webb is not incriminated as a racist or bigot, but as a servant of bigots. So who do the authors suggest that the telescope be named for? If encouraging diversity is the issue, perhaps it should be named the Vera Rubin Space Telescope, after the deceased astronomer who in the 1960s and ’70s provided some of the first compelling evidence of dark matter in our galaxy. Or perhaps the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Space Telescope, after the astrophysicist who, as a graduate student, help discover the first pulsars in 1967 and who some claim was overlooked when the Nobel Prize was awarded to her supervisor. Instead, the proposal is to rename the telescope the Harriet Tubman Space Telescope. Why? Not because Tubman might have made any contributions to astronomy, but because she was a conductor on the Underground Railroad that helped free black slaves in the South, during which she “likely used the North Star” to navigate to freedom. [my emphasis]

No one is actually dumb enough to think that last bit is a good idea.
   Science is no more packed with racism and sexism that is any other part of academia. An web of obvious leftist lies has captured the university, and most academicians are either (a) not smart enough to see through it or (b) willingly duped by it because they find progressivism pleasing, or (c) afraid to speak up about it. It's a reign of terror. Or, more accurately, a reign of cowardice. In some ways the worst part of all this--and see the bolded bit above, again--is that so many people in academia just aren't very smart.