Don’t like biological research? Call the scientist a racist

Following the recent death of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson, a professor of nursing wrote for Scientific American of “the complicated legacies of scientists whose works are built on racist ideas.”

Within academia, there has been a tireless, insidious movement to derail particular lines of research by terrorizing scientists with unfounded accusations of racism and bigotry. Every week, I am alerted by my readers to yet another case of an academic being tarred, feathered, and dragged as part of a concerted effort to erase biological explanations in favor of blank slateism (the belief that human nature is socially constructed and learned).