Is There A WAR On Science? Lawrence Krauss - #505
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Brian Keating
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🗓️ 30 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | There is no systemic racism in university. |
| 0:02.0 | Universities used to be the most tolerant varmints and the most enlightened environments for that reason. |
| 0:07.0 | And to pretend that they're not, and to point out every single problem and suggest that its basis must be in racism or sexism without presenting evidence. |
| 0:16.0 | It's not what you should be doing. |
| 0:17.0 | Some ideas are heretical and should not be talked about, but nothing is heretical in science. Things are heretical in religion. If you say that ideas are too dangerous, then we're back at Galileo. It's too dangerous to say the Earth orbits the sun. 80% of them wrote under pseudonyms because they were afraid. That sounds like the Stasi in East Germany or the KGB in Russia. One of his colleagues said, you should stop talking about EDI. You've got a family. He said, think about your kids. That sounds |
| 0:42.7 | like the mafia. It sounds like sopranos, not a university. Someone who was academically unqualified |
| 0:48.3 | to be president, who was hired for identity reasons. We analyzed using ChatGPT, |
| 0:53.3 | all National Science Foundation grants from |
| 0:55.4 | 2023 and looked at the words like diversity, equity, inclusion, et cetera, et cetera, and looked |
| 0:59.7 | at them. And we got about $800 million, was going towards these things that weren't science. |
| 1:04.0 | Lawrence Krause, what is the single most dangerous idea that's threatening science today? |
| 1:10.4 | I think it's the idea that some ideas are |
| 1:12.1 | heretical and should not be talked about and the people who talk about them should be dispensed |
| 1:17.0 | with. I think that's probably the biggest obstacle to science because science is based on |
| 1:22.2 | not only open inquiry, but it's a social kind of. It's based on being able to speak and have your |
| 1:27.4 | ideas attacked and |
| 1:28.6 | then defend them but nothing is heretical in science things are heretical in religion things are |
| 1:32.7 | not heretical in science and they shouldn't be yeah i mean there's so much in this book that i |
| 1:37.1 | quite frankly felt depressed i felt this is a book laurence correct me if i'm wrong but you've been |
| 1:41.8 | on the podcast five times now. I feel like this is |
| 1:44.5 | the book that you wished you didn't have to write. Am I wrong? Oh, absolutely. I wish I didn't have |
| 1:49.9 | to talk about this at all. Yeah. And I got around it by helping other people write part of it for me. |
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