The Rise of Taboos in Science & Limits to Academic Freedom
About this episode:
Elizabeth Weiss, a professor of anthropology, discusses how cancel culture and identity politics have corrupted science. She shares her personal experiences with cancel culture and the challenges she faced in academia.
These include an attempt to bar “menstruating personnel” from the curation facility, a campaign to ban research on ancient Carthaginian remains because the individuals concerned never consented to photography, and a plan to declare X-rays sacred, so that they can be repatriated to Native Americans prior to being burned or buried.
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