You write, "Are we at a point where the heart of the nation’s scientific research enterprise is to be held hostage to ideology?"
Well, all human activity is held hostage to ideology of some kind or another. The scientific enterprise seems built upon the typically unexamined assumption that more knowledge is always better. That's an ideology too. And just as the assumptions of woke culture are reasonably challenged, so are the assumptions of science culture.
It's not really a conflict between science and ideology, but rather a conflict between two competing ideologies.
I'm so happy that I'm and old man . The young men today do not stand a chance in the "WOKE" world.
I wonder what this will get me banned from???
You write, "Are we at a point where the heart of the nation’s scientific research enterprise is to be held hostage to ideology?"
Well, all human activity is held hostage to ideology of some kind or another. The scientific enterprise seems built upon the typically unexamined assumption that more knowledge is always better. That's an ideology too. And just as the assumptions of woke culture are reasonably challenged, so are the assumptions of science culture.
It's not really a conflict between science and ideology, but rather a conflict between two competing ideologies.
disagree.. recording a podcast on that issue today in fact.
The assumption that more knowledge is always better could be called a philosophy instead of an ideology, if that helps.