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By Isaac Ato Mensah<\/span><\/p>\n

Accra \u2013 21 June, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe should come over here to ghana and see what we have to live with,\u201d was my mentor\u2019s response to Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s comments on the growing problem of “anti-science bias” in the US during the \u201cLearning Curve\u201d podcast last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have my battles, and my mentor has his, but sometimes they converge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether you are dealing with the stark illiterate or the so-called educated middle class– upwardly mobile, aspirational class; both most often have strange values and are often \u201cimpervious to reason\u201d, to borrow my mentor\u2019s term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are at least three reasons for this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, illiteracy is so predominant (upwards of 85 percent) such that you either conform or be consumed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, as a corollary to the first point, most of the aspirational class are unable to connect the rubrics of scientific methods and literature to everyday issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my grandmothers would always jab my uncles thus: \u201cWo krakye ay\u025b\u00a0 nyinaa me\u2019tam ano\u201d, Fante, suggesting that \u201cAll your scholarship is inseparably linked to the draw strings of my waistcloth.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This jab or if you like straight hook ended all debates about whether she, an illiterate – and you dare not call her illiterate – had anything to learn from the schooled.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Full disclosure; I belong in this category of the aspirational class. I still have that same family battle with my mother \u2013 it will likely never end – till death do us part.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0And third, due to our prevalent culture of impunity, pervasive bribery and corruption, those who bribe their way often get immediate relief from formal or informal legal sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

They then proceed to flaunt their ill gotten gains, and are often used as examples of \u201csuccessful people\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My mentor calls those who practice this subculture, \u201cA wise man\u2019s idiot or an idiot\u2019s wise man\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The above of course include those who weaponize their positions and titles to secure results which impede long term progress by thwarting fundamental principles; examples include board chairs, CEOs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Garlick, a stem cell scientist writing on 27 December 2014 about \u201cscience literacy\u201d on theconversation.com. explained:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIncreasingly we must grapple with highly-charged and politicized science-based issues ranging from infectious diseases and human cloning to reproductive choices and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet many \u2013 perhaps even the majority \u2013 …..aren\u2019t sufficiently scientifically literate to make sense of these complicated issues…….<\/span><\/p>\n

Without a solid understanding of the underlying science and its implications for our daily lives, we can neither respond intelligently on a personal level nor hold our public officials accountable for sound policy decisions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Our battles in ghana are no less tough.<\/span><\/p>\n

They include getting our peers to understand and accept basic didactic information; having meaningful conversations outside our traditional family settings; and dominating the public space\/discourse with our insightful conversations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0In ghana, we have not developed a solid literate\/scholarship culture, whereby public lectures are held regularly, with robust critiques and skepticism being appreciated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And certainly, the ubiquitous “shows” hosted by the “astute” journalists on air almost always pervert rational analysis and the minimum of decorum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even at the college level, our interfaculty lectures are a luxury; often stifling affairs where overt non-practitioners mouth multiple platitudes.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few lecturers including Professor Ransford Gyampo of University of Ghana and Nana Professor Darkwa of Ghana Technology University College have been writing regularly in the media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, our media appears to have very limited editorial capacity to moderate the articles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The empirical evidence does not support the assumption that once professors are packed onto the boards of directors of the state owned media houses, they can have a moderating influence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specific examples abound including state-owned media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moving forward, we at writersghana.com hereby propose that independent scholars or independent and fair minded individuals with core competencies constitute the editorial advisory boards of Ghana\u2019s media houses and they must have at least three attributes.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, they have nothing to lose financially when an article\/story does not get published; second, they have no personal or political axe to grind; and third the moral imperative is their time-tested avocation.<\/span><\/p>\n

All told there must be a determined effort to promote verbal reasoning, alongside an understanding of society, the environment and culture, as a roadmap to progress and development in our nation.<\/p>\n

This will give fuller meaning to my mentor\u2019s remarks about the <\/span>Aufkl\u00e4rung<\/span> during my first graduation ceremony at Sakabo University when he emphasized: \u201cThe scientific method is a way of life\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Feedback: ato@writersghana.com; www.writersghana.com;<\/span><\/p>\n

LinkedIn, Isaac Ato Mensah; Instagram, @atomenswriters;<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter, @Atomens; Facebook, Writers and Shakespeares Ghana; Telegram, Isaac Ato Mensah; Quora, Isaac Ato Mensah; WhatsApp, (+233) 020 022 0353.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writers and Shakespeares Ghana Limited exist to be a moral and intellectual guide to the best practice of PR and integrated communications around the world, beginning with Ghana.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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