See here. This concerns a paper in a journal, and the author of this post observes this about that paper:
To really see the lack of force of accusations of rampant bigotry in STEM, look for surveys, or even examples, of bigotry in papers such as this. They’re notably lacking. The paper below, which just appeared in Paleobiology, has a lot of citations, but a big lacuna when it comes to examples. Perhaps they’re buried in the citations, but no reader is going to trawl through a gazillion citations to find instances of bigotry. And so we’re subject to a long list of accusations, which are virtually identical from field to field. In fact, in many cases you could substitute “chemistry” or “mathematics” for “paleontology” in these papers and then publish it in the discipline -appropriate journal.
The abuse of power in this instance occurs from the failure to provide evidence or even examples of this “structural racism.” Ordinarily, no one in academia can get away with that sort of thing, but the woke can because they have so much power. No one wants to challenge them and be labeled a racist.
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