My Latest Substack post: The Trouble with STEM – 6

To recap: I recently ran across an online post by a person trained in STEM, calling for colleges to no longer teach any subject except Science, Technology, Engineering, n Math. Others asked if he were serious n he said he was. Many people tried to get him to modify his position but he insisted that only STEM should ever be taught in colleges. IMO, this has led to serious mistakes n misunderstandings by this person, n by other persons, especially engineers in my experience, when they stray from their fields of expertise n decide they know something about human society when they may not.

• STEM types seem to think that A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, is genuine history when in fact it is mostly fake, n like King Leopold’s Ghost, it is not an academic work by an actual historian. Both works present a false picture to the public of what historians actually do n actually believe. STEM people, unfamiliar as they are with the discipline of history, remain unaware of this misimpression n accept the theses of these works uncritically….

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