#ShutDownSTEM or "Relax it's contained to the college campuses"
There was a recent post about having to be woke in one's professional life which had me chuckling at those who have to deal with this type of nonsense in academia... and then I get this week's professional development (i.e. what are supposed to be at least somewhat technical) offerings from our (Canadian) Province's regulator of Engineers and Geoscientists. These seminars aren't mandatory, but the regulator does require 80 hours per year of "professional development", and these seminars are a pretty common way to get them.
For a vocation (STEM) so heavily invested in causality, evidence, testable and refutable explanations of reality, etc., it could be a real tough sell for the hawkers of "critical theory", although I think they'd avoid using those words at any point. Even during the unquestionably technical seminars, the audiences can get pretty testy with the presenters when it comes to justifying or supporting their assertions.
I feel like there must be some epically paradoxical, Lewis Carroll type gotcha-questions which would be fun to ask during one of these things. Is there like, a dunk highlight reel out there?
