Via Pharyngula, I saw an excellent analysis by Rebecca Watson (see below) about a new book coming out that is edited by Lawrence Krauss that has the title The War on Science.

She takes apart Krauss, describing his abominable behavior towards women over the years. Krauss was the chair of the physics department at Case Western Reserve University from 1993 until 2005, when I was also in the department. Because he was the chair, I had plenty of interactions with him though we were not friends and did not socialize outside of official functions. While I did not have any problems with him personally or professionally (except on one occasion when I felt that he behaved ungraciously), I had seen and heard things that made me have misgivings about his judgment and ethics, and so found the charges made against him by so many women to be utterly plausible.

While the book is not yet out, Watson’s description about the blurbs about it sounded to me like it was written by Republican MAGA types, claiming that the enemies of science are wokeness, DEI, transgender women, war on free speech, cancel culture, and all the other usual suspects that are trotted out by the MAGA-adjacent for all society’s ills. (It is curious that most of the people who shout loudest about their right to free speech being denied are rich, famous, and (mostly) white men who seem to have no difficulty finding publishers and other media outlets for their views. It seems like what they really want is that, despite their obnoxious views, to be loved by those who were their allies before their ugly sides were revealed.)

Watson talks about other contributors to the book like Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, and Steven Pinker, all of whom have a marked anti-trans bias. She did not discuss other dubious contributors such as Niall Ferguson, Jordan Peterson, and Peter Boghossian. Some of them are not even scientists and so I was surprised that they could not sign on another famous transphobe J. K. Rowling to boost the sales.