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Mar 31, 2022Liked by Lawrence M. Krauss

I tend to lean on my education when discussing these topics (I have a Master of Sociology degree), but I’m also a minority with a lived experience on top of said education, so these topics always interest me. The issues of systemic racism and sexism - which are very real and long embedded in our institutions and history - are not uniform across all areas in life. The folly in believing that they are often leads to misplaced focus and wasting valuable resources on solutions, sometimes in search of a problem, with little ROI.

As a progressive, my worry is that the masses will tire of this over saturation of virtue signaling and stop supporting diversity and equity initiatives, which really are needed in many areas of life

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Actually, let's hope the science community forms an effective board on their own. Guys with newly found celebrity maybe, using their exposure to press home all the issues the general public seem to be misled on or have little interest in. Obviously that's what you all do separately, but a coalition that meets every so often to discuss (live on youtubeland) these issues, should have the same effect on a much larger scale. Because I'll tell ya, I've always been interested and not alone, but it's these past 5 or 6 years of your guys' fame rising to the point where at least millions more Americans know what the standard model of the universe is. A decade ago they would have been waiting for you to bust out a diorama, me included...

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Nuclear winter, engineered pandemics, misaligned AI, runaway climate change, lower probability natural threats like space rocks etc, and who knows how many as of yet unknown existential threats are staring us in the face. But instead of employing the power of scientific truth seeking to focus on these risks, alongside trying to address the individual "meaning crisis" evident in suicide rates and addiction levels, we find ourselves caught up in these identity politics absurdities. It is not hard to imagine that we will end up destroying the future of humanity--through extinction, unrecoverable collapse, or locked in techno-tyranny--simply because we have allowed ourselves to be sidetracked by a small minority of dogmatic zealots who continue to impose their arrogant pseudo-religious worldview on the rest of society such that our error correcting social technologies like science and democracy no longer function adequately enough to avoid the icebergs.

That said, have you considered asking Prof Anna Krylov of USC onto the podcast Lawrence? As well as her 4 written pieces over the last year about the insidious creep of this Woke ideology into science, she did a brilliant episode on Sigma Nutrition here that might be of interest: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode425/ As a serious scientist and former subject of Soviet tyranny, her writing and perspective on this madness is of extreme importance.

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