Hmmmm ...
I tend to think of the sciences as less prone to ideological bullying than the humanities, but this raises some concerns.
Update: I neglected to mention that I found this item via Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner. John Derbyshire, Andrew Stuttaford, Jonah Goldberg, and Wesley J. Smith have since weighed in on the issue (Derbyshire and Stuttaford with serious reservations about the crux of Smith's post). Scroll down for their comments.
Update: I neglected to mention that I found this item via Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner. John Derbyshire, Andrew Stuttaford, Jonah Goldberg, and Wesley J. Smith have since weighed in on the issue (Derbyshire and Stuttaford with serious reservations about the crux of Smith's post). Scroll down for their comments.
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Sad. Perhaps that leaves only pure mathematics safe from polital correctness. Oops. I forgot about ethnomathematics.
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