Canadian Government Funds Activist Academics Declaring War on Physics

The effort to ‘decolonize light’ is representative of a growing trend: subjecting hard sciences to the woke piety previously afflicting only the humanities.

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The Canadian flag flies on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, in 2015.

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Canada’s government granted a group of academics almost $164,000 for a research project called “Decolonizing Light: Tracing and countering colonialism in contemporary physics,” a search of grant records confirmed.

Disturbingly, the academics involved admit that they have zero interest in performing science or seeking truth but are instead interested in spreading woke ideology. “The purpose of our project is not to find new or better explanations of light; we are not seeking to improve scientific ‘truth,’” scholars involved in the project wrote in one of their few published works. “Rather, our project initiatives are motivated by the marginalization of women, Black people, and Indigenous peoples particularly in physics.”

Andrew Follett

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Andrew Follett

Andrew Follett conducts research analysis for a nonprofit in the Washington, D.C., area. He previously worked as a space and science reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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