The call by students to "decolonise science" still rings in many South African academics' ears. But discussions about what t might entail, or even if it's necessary, are fraught.
In many cases, that's not because scientists don't want to reduce the footprint of Western culture on their field of research. Instead, it's because science is fundamentally meant to be universal. In a perfect world, science would know no cultural or racial discrimination. However, as centuries of scientific racism or European exceptionalism remind us, this isn't a perfect world.
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