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Doing so will encourage scientists to think extra about the political contexts which have kept their work going and about how changing them could benefit the scientific career around the globe. It should spark conversations between the sciences and different disciplines about their shared colonial previous and the way to tackle the problems it creates. The call to decolonize science, as in the case of different disciplines similar to literature, can encourage us to rethink the dominant image that scientific information is the work of white men. But this a lot-needed critique of the scientific canon carries the other hazard of inspiring different nationwide narratives in submit-colonial countries. It is unlikely that anyone who wishes to be taken seriously right now would clarify this data by way of innate intellectual superiority decided by race. The blatant scientific racism of the nineteenth century has … Read More