PODCAST 98: Physicist Lawrence Krauss on Why Identity Politics Should be Kept Out of Science

4 Jul 2020 · 1 min read

Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many science organisations.

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