# Opinions on The War on Science, edited by Lawrence M. Krauss? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2026, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241 "2026-06-28T02:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/1 "2026-06-28T02:31:32Z")
A friend recently extolled the virtues of [this collection of essays](https://www.amazon.com/War-Science-Thirty-Nine-Scientists-Scientific/dp/B0DWLP2VTZ), saying that while he did not agree with each individual one, they were thought provoking, and seemed to align with his opinion that facts should not be subject to politics. But just reading the blurbs and such, I’m getting the feeling that this book is very conservative, or intended with a conservative agenda in mind, which surprised me about this specific person. Before I end up reading it, does anyone know much about it? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/2 "2026-06-28T02:45:16Z")
Have not read it, but the Amazon page says this: “Named Best Book of the Year in the UK by The Future Cities Project” So, I looked up [The Future Cities Project](https://futurecities.org.uk/). It looks to be primarily the work of one guy, an architect who is a climate-change skeptic and DEI critic, who decries “sustainability” being forced into building design, at the expense of imagination. So, yeah, very likely a conservative agenda behind it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/3 "2026-06-28T04:03:47Z")
Krauss is a credibly accused sex abuser, who’s jumped into the right wing pipeline. He’s an Epstein associate. Try the book The Republican War on Science. It may be old enough to vote, but it’s connected to our reality. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/4 "2026-06-28T04:58:05Z")
In reading through [Krauss’s Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Krauss) (which has lots of details on his lengthy friendship with Epstein, and the sexual assault allegations), it notes that the book in the OP (which Krauss edited, as well as writing the introduction and epilogue) is published by a conservative Christian book imprint; given that Krauss styles himself as an “anti-theist,” it does seem like a bit of strange bedfellows. Also, I recognize him from the picture on the Wikipedia page; he was one of the scientists who regularly appeared on _How the Universe Works_, one of my favorite series on The Science Channel. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/5 "2026-06-28T05:46:47Z")
I saw him give a really fun talk in 2017 on his tour to promote his book "The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here? "about science and relativity - the audience was enrapt. Then, the next year, he turned out to be a disappointing creep. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/6 "2026-06-29T18:42:29Z")
I tried looking him up, but he doesn’t even have a Wiki page. I’m going to start a new thread and see if others have some information on this. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/7 "2026-06-29T18:52:11Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I tried looking him up, but he doesn’t even have a Wiki page The Future Cities guy? He seems to be maybe a small-time crank architect with a web site, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/8 "2026-06-29T18:54:42Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Krauss is a credibly accused sex abuser, who’s jumped into the right wing pipeline. He’s an Epstein associate Ad Hominem fallacy. Do any of those bad things have anything to do with his skills as a science writer? and there is this- > **[Lawrence Krauss | Allegations of sexual misconduct](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Krauss#Allegations_of_sexual_misconduct)** > > In a February 2018 article describing allegations that "range from offensive comments to groping and non-consensual sexual advances", BuzzFeed News reported a variety of sexual misconduct claims against Krauss, including two complaints from his years at Case Western Reserve University. Krauss responded that the article was "slanderous" and "factually incorrect". In a public statement, he apologized to anyone he made feel intimidated or uncomfortable, but stated that the BuzzFeed artic ASU stated ... ---
**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/9 "2026-06-29T19:19:18Z")
I read his book _The Physics of Star Trek_, and found it interesting and well thought out. He’s a legitimate scientist as opposed to an internet personality. Although the sexual misconduct allegations are deflating to hear, I’d be willing to give this book a shot. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/10 "2026-06-29T19:22:02Z")
That’s my question, which I don’t want to hijack this thread with. See [The Future Cities Project - mantownhuman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-future-cities-project-mantownhuman/1031279) for the full version. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/11 "2026-06-29T22:06:27Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Ad Hominem fallacy. Do any of those bad things have anything to do with his skills as a science writer? If his association with Epstien doesn’t stop you from reading anything by him, how about this description of his book, quoted from Wikipedia: “In 2024, Krauss edited the book The War on Science, a collection of essays from 39 academics addressing perceived threats to academic freedom and scientific progress, such as DEI programs, wokeness, and cancel culture. Contributors include Nicholas Christakis, Richard Dawkins, Peter Boghossian, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Alan Sokal and Elizabeth Weiss. Krauss wrote an introductory overview and an epilogue. This is his third book published through the conservative Christian imprint Post Hill Press.” I, for one, am fed up with people who have giant public platforms complaining about cancel culture. My liver can’t take that much irony. Krauss had been very public about his atheism. Dawkins wrote The God Delusion. Suddenly they have no problem being published by a conservative Christian publisher - not a sign of consistency on the part of Krauss and Dawkins. If you want to spend your time on that book, at least borrow one from your library, rahter than spend your money on it also. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/12 "2026-06-30T02:34:51Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > In 2024, Krauss edited the book The War on Science, a collection of essays from 39 academics addressing perceived threats to academic freedom and scientific progress, such as DEI programs, wokeness, and cancel culture. Contributors include Nicholas Christakis, Richard Dawkins, Peter Boghossian, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Alan Sokal and Elizabeth Weiss. Krauss wrote an introductory overview and an epilogue. This is his third book published through the conservative Christian imprint Post Hill Press.” See, that is a legit criticism. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/13 "2026-06-30T02:53:55Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > See, that is a legit criticism. And is, of course, the book that the OP asked about in the first post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/14 "2026-06-30T02:55:53Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Krauss had been very public about his atheism. More than “public”, he’s a crusading atheist like Dawkins. He’s a legitimate scientist but his anti-religion crusades have long pissed me off even though I’m basically on the same side. I’m at best an agnostic, though many would call me atheist, but I don’t go around telling religious people how stupid they are and trying to convince them to recant their beliefs. As a physicist, Krauss has tried to make a big deal of the fact that matter and energy can arise from nothing (essentially that’s what Hawking radiation is) and therefore so did the entire universe. Besides being inherently a fallacious argument, that still tells us nothing about the existence or non-existence of a Prime Mover. The fact that Krauss turns out to also be a right-wing nutjob pisses me off even more. Makes perfect sense that a bigot like Jordan Peterson would be among the contributors to the book. I’m only mildly surprised to see Steven Pinker among them, too, as Pinker has been politically controversial and above all, enjoys taunting the lesser beings of this world with his intellectual contrarianism. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/15 "2026-06-30T03:04:22Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > And is, of course, the book that the OP asked about in the first post. So? I was replying to this Ad Hominem attack- > [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Krauss is a credibly accused sex abuser, who’s jumped into the right wing pipeline. He’s an Epstein associate. T So, there are good and bad reasons to reject a book. Either- Content, or Ad Hominem. I prefer content. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/16 "2026-06-30T03:08:36Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > So? So…it’s only just the actual topic of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/17 "2026-06-30T03:15:10Z")
I wrote my disgust at this book last year (in a thread where I was highlighting Pinker’s continued hob-nobing with alt-right Racialist pod-casters) as it focused squarely at grifting money by portraying obsessed anti-wokism as in-line with scholarly academics. What a crock of shit as it is SOLELY the current facist right who are attacking academia through inflammatory, conspiracy laden, dismissive rhetoric; direct monetary funding cuts; and political based punitive legislative action. This book only serves to cover this all out attack of academia, by obfuscating the American fascist right through anti-woke culture war articles by right-wing grifters. > [@The current second Trump administration: a compendium of horrors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1630): > > I will congratulate Pinker for doing the BARE MINIMUM by defending Harvard. He doesn’t get anymore credit then that. He drummed “the left is taking over and destroying reason in academia” fear mongering for more than a decade. In fact, Pinker and a collection of 39 of these anti-left anti-woke scaremongers have a book coming out in July banging that very same drum (YES, EVEN TO THIS DAY THEY MILK THAT COW) “[The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process](https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/The-War-on-Science/Dawkins/9798888457566)”. @dasmoocher then shared an EXCELLENT video about the authors of this book that is worthy of sharing here on whole. It was a joy to watch from start to finish. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mfh75ezwi2Y/maxresdefault.jpg "The “Skeptics” Are Crashing Out HARD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfh75ezwi2Y) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/18 "2026-06-30T04:00:14Z")
Just another example of “Oh, people found out I’m a terrible fuckwad; time to embrace the alt-right, they’ll take ANYBODY!” Much easier than just not being a fuckwad, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/19 "2026-06-30T04:18:53Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > @dasmoocher then shared an EXCELLENT video about the authors of this book that is worthy of sharing here on whole. It was a joy to watch from start to finish. I’m sure it’s very informative for those needing the info, but I wouldn’t call it a “joy”. It was so depressing that I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes of it. BTW, in the still-image preview, is that Sabine Hossenfelder over on the right? Understandable. She’s had a chip on her shoulder ever since being frequently spurned by the academic community and seems to now be more and more engaged in contrarian podcasting instead of science. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241/20 "2026-06-30T10:22:20Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m sure it’s very informative for those needing the info, but I wouldn’t call it a “joy”. It was so depressing that I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes of it. I was already VASTLY disgusted and morally offended by the grifting claims of the authors. Using people’s ignorance to advance the fascist right’s all out assault on academia, while also engaging in the most debased rote anti-woke culture warring. I would suggest you to not to allow any feeling of disgust to prevent yourself from watching and absorbing the information of the video. It is very important not to limit one’s own personal exposure to the earnest deconstruction of naked right-wing anti-woke propaganda. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-the-war-on-science-edited-by-lawrence-m-krauss/1031241.md?page=2)