[ExI] Nature.com article

[Dylan Distasio]

It's very troubling to see scientists overtly wading into politics lately
between this and that idiotic #defundSTEM movement, and top tier
publications like Nature and Science carrying water for them.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 4:18 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Mathematicians call for police work boycott
> <https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=b55e47676c&e=d520e39c16>
>
> More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter urging their colleagues
> to stop collaborating with police
> <https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=09c4b8e972&e=d520e39c16> because
> of the widely documented disparities in how US law-enforcement agencies
> treat people of different races and ethnicities. They concentrate their
> criticism on predictive policing, a maths-based technique aimed at stopping
> crime before it occurs. Critics say that the data used to feed such
> algorithms contain racial biases, and that the ‘control conditions’ for
> predictive policing — ordinary policing — are racially skewed. “It is
> simply too easy to create a ‘scientific’ veneer for racism,” the
> mathematicians write.
>
>
> Of course it's racism.  It has to be.  Crime isn't spread randomly around
> town.  Do they want the police to spend as much time patrolling gated
> communities as the ghettos?
>
> I can't believe mathematicians are so stupid.  Wait, I can too.
>
> bill w
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