>>12871447>Again that's not physics itself that's an extant variableYeah, I know. The point you fail to understand is that these people don't care. They will force their political practices on you, regardless of whether your field is political or not. Scientists are generally just too stupid to understand why or how this is dangerous, because they, like you, think that science is something independent of the practitioner.
With the example of your field being coerced into hiring candidates based on demographics, that means that your field is now set back because hiring based on demographics only ever makes itself notable when demographics are placed before quality. This practice will inevitably lead to a lower quality of science being done. A lower quality of science being done means less funding. Less funding means less opportunities, and less opportunities means still less funding. That's just one example.
Another example is that the promotion of these policies takes away from the "science" share of the university budget. Where's that going to come from? Well, it isn't going to be the administrative class giving up their fat salaries. It's going to hurt the academics (even more than it has done already).
By all means have fun deluding yourself into thinking science is immune to the influence of politics, but you and your mentality are contributing to more and more of science being infected with this mentality.
Scientists can't afford to be passive. There needs to be active opposition.
