Scientific rationality and multiculturalism do not mix, as shown by recent revelations
https://www.thecollegefix.com/instructors-at-australian-university-told-to-teach-creation-myth-instead-of-science/
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous-arrival-has-no-date-dons-told/news-story/f3c3a28637afd33b1c090ba0ec74202b
“University science lecturers have been warned off making the familiar statement in class that “Aboriginal people have been in Australia for 40,000 years”. It “puts a limit on the occupation of Australia” and many indigenous Australians see this as “inappropriate”, according to the University of NSW language advice for staff. The document suggests it is “more appropriate” to say Aborigines have been here “since the beginning of the Dreaming/s” because this “reflects the beliefs of many Indigenous Australians that they have always been in Australia, from the beginning of time, and came from the land’’. A new set of classroom guidelines, which alert scientists to existing language advice, was circulated in the science faculty this month. One scientist said most academics got on with their work and did their best to ignore such documents. Asked by the government to review free speech on campus, former High Court chief justice Robert French reported in April on the censorship potential in myriad university policies, among them some inclusive language guides which imposed “very wide-ranging constraint” on freedom of expression.
