The new obscurantists – The file of L’Express

Will wokism contaminate science? Whereas for several decades, the threats against science came rather from religious movements (creationism) or from the right (climatoscepticism), a new obscurantism is developing today on the left. More and more, activists, students and even academics contest, in the name of their ideology, fundamental knowledge in biology or medicine. The differences between men and women become a taboo. Entire disciplines, such as genetics, are stigmatized because they are supposed to be unequal. The evolution of the species or the idea of ​​human nature are discarded. Scientists like Charles Darwin find themselves demonized. Activists want to “decolonize” a science deemed too “Western” or “white”. L’Express investigated these new obscurantists. As the American biologist Jerry Coyne explains to us, the great error of this movement is to confuse science and morality. Worse: by putting an ostrich on questions related to biology, the left leaves the field free to the extreme right, which recovers and distorts studies on the differences between men and women or the genetics of populations…