# Opinions on The War on Science, edited by Lawrence M. Krauss?

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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):
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> 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)

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