It is a measure of how far down the drain science has gone, that a paper defending the quality of merit, that scientific theses should be judged based upon the quality of argument and evidence, gets rejected by all the mainstream journals it was submitted to. It was eventually accepted in a journal set up to combat this, Journal of Controversial Ideas. The authors contrasted traditional scientific methodology with the postmodern response, which they argue is making rapid advances through universities and research: “In contrast, identity-based ideologies seek to replace these core liberal principles, essential for scientific and technological advances, with principles derived from postmodernism and Critical Social Justice…which assert that modern science is ‘racist,’ ‘patriarchal,’ and ‘colonial,’ and a tool of oppression rather than a tool to promote human flourishing and global common good.”
