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DECOLONISING SCIENCE

The woke agenda poses a threat to science and maths that is, if anything, even more fundamental than that to the humanities reported by David Butterfield (HOLLOWED-OUT HUMANITIES, MARCH).

Scepticism has been recognised as the bedrock of “natural philosophy” since the days of Galileo and Pope Urban but “inclusion” may now require physics and aboriginal legends to be afforded equal status in the science curriculum.

In 2022, two

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