Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.

I am your host, Danny Lennon.

This is episode 425 of the podcast. You are very

welcome back if you're a regular listener and you're very welcome to the podcast if this indeed

is your first time listening. I hope you enjoy. Today we're going to be taking a bit of a

departure from our usual discussions around nutrition science and health science specifically and we're going to be taking a bit of a departure from our usual discussions around nutrition

science and health science specifically and we're going to talk about a more broad topic.

And this is off the basis of me reading a article that originally appeared actually in a

chemistry journal, which I'll talk about in a moment that a close friend of mine sent sent to me a number of months back towards end of last year. And this was a paper published in June

2021 in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, which is a chemistry journal with an impact

factor of 6.5. And that piece titled The Peril of Politicizing

Science was written by Professor Anna Krillov, who is a professor of chemistry at the University of

Southern California, where she's working in the field of theoretical and computational quantum

chemistry. And the piece that appeared in the field of theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. And the piece that

appeared in the journal has now been read over 75,000 times as of February 2022, which makes it

the all-time highest-ranked article in that particular journal from the statistics that I

can find. And it gets into a number of kind of broad and overarching and meta-ideas around

how essentially ideology and much of that that gets rooted within kind of political discourse,

but even more broadly, I think,

worldviews and how people see things through ideology and certain types of activism

can actually go too far and end up hurting scientific discourse and having real negative

impacts on academics trying to do science for scientific discussions or getting them shut down,

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