{"id":44696,"date":"2021-06-11T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=44696"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:35:52","slug":"gravity-is-cancelled-professors-at-sheffield-university-want-disclaimers-on-isaac-newtons-theories-for-eurocentric-and-white-savior-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/gravity-is-cancelled-professors-at-sheffield-university-want-disclaimers-on-isaac-newtons-theories-for-eurocentric-and-white-savior-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity is cancelled: professors at Sheffield University want disclaimers on Isaac Newton\u2019s theories for \u2018eurocentric\u2019 and \u2018white savior\u2019 science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professors at Sheffield University want to put disclaimers on Isaac Newton\u2019s theories because he benefited from \u201c<em>colonial-era activity,<\/em>\u201d and believe the physics curriculum should instead promote \u201c<em>inclusive design.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/i-n-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leaked documents show that the professors are planning to overhaul their physics courses to explain the \u201c<em>global origins and historical context<\/em>\u201d of Newton\u2019s theories with an \u201c<em>inclusive curriculum development<\/em>\u201d plan.<\/p>\n<p>Newton\u2019s laws are the core of modern physics and laid the foundations of modern science with his theory of gravity, light, time, color and calculus \u2013 but these nutty professors want students to understand that he may have benefited from \u201c<em>colonial-era activity<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The plans form part of the engineering faculty\u2019s efforts to \u2018challenge long-standing conscious and unconscious biases\u2019 among students to tackle \u2018Eurocentric\u2019 and \u2018white saviour\u2019 approaches to science and maths, and promote \u2018inclusive design,<\/em>&#8216;\u201d reports the <em>Telegraph<\/em>, who obtained the documents.<\/p>\n<p>The document says that important scientists such as Paul Dirac, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Newton, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz \u201c<em>could be considered as benefiting from colonial era activity<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021 the <em>Telegraph<\/em> revealed an Oxford professor branded musical notation \u201c<em>colonialist<\/em>\u201d as part of faculty proposals to challenge the \u201c<em>complicity in white supremacy<\/em>\u201d of its music curriculum, which spans Mozart and Beethoven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>June 11, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors at Sheffield University want to put disclaimers on Isaac Newton\u2019s theories because he benefited from \u201ccolonial-era activity,\u201d and believe the physics curriculum should instead promote \u201cinclusive design.\u201d Leaked documents show that the professors are planning to overhaul their physics courses to explain the \u201cglobal origins and historical context\u201d of Newton\u2019s theories with an \u201cinclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-masonic-tendencies-in-contemporary-society-3480-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44697,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44696\/revisions\/44697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}