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[kiliantics]

Hard sciences are not without politicisation either. Just look at this wiki entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Phys...

There's definitely a trend of scientists from e.g. Russia claiming to have been the originators of ideas that others got prizes for.

Academia in general tends to be very Western-centric and so these kinds of issues - and all the other problems with Western cultural hegemony (patriarchy, racism etc.) - are pervasive in all facets of it.

[Retra → kiliantics]

Right, because non-western society has no racism or patriarchy. It's all just enlightenment and peace in the east.

[kiliantics → Retra]

While you certainly have a point, I never suggested that this wasn't the case. Just that these problems are not absent from certain institutions which many of us perceive as being "objective".