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"Decolonialism wants to silence its adversaries by disguising itself as science"

2021-03-04T19:04:34.453Z


TRIBUNE - For Xavier-Laurent Salvador, lecturer at the University of Paris-13, we are witnessing a worrying phenomenon at the university: challenging axiological neutrality, researchers are mixing personal testimonies and activism in the theses they present. ..


On television, it is always good to invite a "specialist", a "lecturer", an "expert" on the sets.

Let's face it: they are there to "tell the truth".

Where does the legitimacy of scientific personnel come from?

It results from the certification by the university, a yardstick for a researcher's career.

The diploma is the validation of his level of studies.

Publication in specialized journals in a field of the faculty is the validation of one's research.

The scientific disciplines of the university exist because they are the pillars of society.

Whether we like it or not, they pre-exist the rest.

It is because there is a chair of physics at the university that physics is taught in the colleges.

It is because the university believes that magic is not a science that it is not taught.

It is because the university is organized in a certain way that society is organized in turn, and not the other way around.

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Source: lefigaro

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