America’s Security Depends on STEM
An important piece with a dire warning—time is running out for America. The author traces the importance of America’s mathematical and scientific progress and strength to its success in war and escape from global totalitarianism. Now, there is a new kind of totalitarianism from within threatening STEM programs nationally at a time when America, and the free world, may soon be facing existential threats. “If China overtakes America, their rule will not be benign, and the hopes and dreams of mankind will be subordinated to the Chinese Communist Party.”
“American educational institutions dedicated to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are desperately needed if the scientific advantage is to remain in the hands of the free world. But what is happening instead is the exact opposite… It is worth recalling that the two leading STEM journals, Nature and Science, printed editorials in support of #ShutDownSTEM to protest ‘systemic racism’ in the sciences…”
“As federal funds helped to boost STEM after WWII and the Sputnik launch, federal funds are now being used to bury STEM… There are now university STEM departments where the ‘diversity statement’ is the most important part of the application process… There are now massive and metastasizing ‘diversity’ bureaucracies in every school, who operate like KGB offices, hunting down perceived infractions."
The reality? “Something drastic must be done. Time is running out…China - who wastes little time on nonsense - is fast catching up to America in STEM fields and will overtake us if we do not correct course soon…If China overtakes America, their rule will not be benign, and the hopes and dreams of mankind will be subordinated to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Related:
Bari Weiss Talks to Mike Pompeo [about Universities’ Connectivity to China] (Honestly, 7/1/23)
