Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era

A long read on how science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what to do about it.

Anti-cholera inoculation in Calcutta in 1894. Wellcome Collection , CC BY-SA https://theconversation.com/decolonise-science-time-to-end-another-imperial-era-89189 https://theconversation.com/decolonise-science-time-to-end-another-imperial-era-89189 Link copied Share article Share article Copy link Email Bluesky Facebook WhatsApp Messenger LinkedIn X (Twitter) Print article Sir Ronald Ross had just returned from an expedition to Sierra Leone. The British doctor had been leading efforts to tackle the malaria that so often killed English colonists in the country, and in December 1899 he gave a le

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