Member of Top DOE Physics Panel Said ‘White Empiricism’ Undermines Science

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

A professor of physics and gender studies who has argued that "white empiricism" undermines Einstein's theory of general relativity now sits on a top physics advisory panel within the Department of Energy, raising questions from fellow scientists about the panel's integrity and providing a potential target for the Trump administration as it seeks to stamp out DEI within the federal government.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire who has suggested that string theory "failed to succeed" because the field has too many white men, was appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) under the Biden administration in 2024. The panel advises the Energy Department on research and funding priorities for particle physics, giving it significant say over which projects receive federal support.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/disqualifying-member-of-top-doe-physics-panel-said-white-empiricism-undermines-theory-of-relativity-accused-israel-of-genocide/



Do you know who else pursued ideologically biased scientific studies?

Deutsche Physik (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə fyˈziːk], lit. "German Physics") or Aryan Physics (German: Arische Physik) was a nationalist movement in the German physics community in the early 1930s which had the support of many eminent physicists in Germany. The term appears in the title of a four-volume physics textbook by Nobel laureate Philipp Lenard in the 1930s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik

[SVPete]

Oh, yeah, I want nuclear reactors designed by rejectors of empirical science!