Excellent summary! Unfortunately, the number of exhibits of wokeness from each domain — education, scientific publishing, science funding — can be easily extended 100-fold (see, for example, the references at the end of this post: hxstem.substack.com/p/m…). The extent of wokeness (Critical Social Justice ideology) in science is massive!

It will take a tremendous effort to reverse this death spiral, and it will not happen unless more scientists will be willing to speak up and to fight the Woke on the ground. As I said in my keynote: "I find the current situation precarious. CSJ ideology is pernicious and it must be stopped. But to stop it, people must act. Currently, the majority is against DEI, but most keep silent. Some say, it is not important, it is just a pillow fight among academics. To this I say, it is not. The ideology is already undermining our research, education, and funding in a major way. Some say, it is a pendulum, it will swing back. To that I want to remind about the USSR. The pendulum that was set in motion in 1917 never came back. Is it coming back now? Let’s not deceive ourselves—politicians in Washington may roll back some of the most outrageous DEI policies, but they won’t fix our universities, our professional societies, our publishing houses. We should do the work ourselves."