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New Zealand science society is even more Woke than we thought

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They’re doubling down on scientists who want to separate science from myth:

In other words, the Royal Society of New Zealand feels no responsibility to respond to its members’ motions, or to investigate its own behavior. It can if it wants, but if it doesn’t want to—and I suspect this will be the case—it doesn’t have to. They’re likely hoping the kerfuffle will blow over. As for “meeting”, it was simply window-dressing: giving its members a chance to blow off steam.

The RSNZ has come out of this with not just egg on its face, but a massive omelet draped over its body. They were wrong to demonize and publicly disagree with their members, they were wrong in their characterization of MM as “science” (do they even know what science is?), and they were wrong to stonewall and not respond to the members’ call for apologies and structural form.

The two members who were investigated, Drs. Robert Nola and Garth Cooper, have resigned from the RSNZ. A large number of the other members are disaffected. The RSNZ won’t do the right thing because it would be considered “racist”.

The institution is ridiculous and and should be mocked.

Jerry Coyne, “The Royal Society of New Zealand blows off those complaining about its treatment of the Satanic Seven; refuses to apologize for mistreating them” at Why Evolution Is True (April 15, 2022)

What Coyne doesn’t get is that atheism does that to people. There is no avenue of appeal and nothing to appeal about. Belief in God creates reason.

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New Zealand’s Royal Society grudgingly lets off two scientists who critiqued “Indigenous ways of knowing” taught as science Jerry Coyne: As I said, the controversy over the hegemony of MM [Indigenous ways of knowing taught as science] in science continues, and if I know anything about New Zealand educational politics, MM will worm its way into science class. All the new RSNZ statement does is exculpate two scientists unfairly accused of misbehavior and harm for saying that MM, while worthy of being taught, is not coequal with modern science.

Jerry Coyne on the war on math, science, in New Zealand – and falling scores

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Maori creationism is okay In New Zealand schools; Objectors could be booted from NZ’s Royal Society.

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