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Saturday, February 26, 2005
Socially Acceptable Science
Socially acceptable science is no science at all. It is an instrument of ideology. Events like the bashing of Larry Summers and the unbelievable pressure exerted to defend the Mann hockey stick graph show that our society could certainly be heading in this direction.
From Robert Hayes at Let's Try Freedom I got a fascinating link. Sweden, which in most ways is a very enlightened society, is inhabited by a noxious breed of social-equality hyper-feminists (no standing up while urinating, please). That I had known. What I had not known is that to some degree they have established social control sufficient to have implemented the official theological doctrine (bow your heads in respect, please) that:
There is no biological difference between men and women. Observable differences are caused by being "socialized into different gender roles."
Unfortunately science disagrees, and so it is necessary to ban the expression of this heresy:
Plonk a young, crying infant in the middle of an auditorium with men and women arranged on the stage alternately. Now let a hungry alligator wander in from one of the far doors and lock all the exits. Granted, both men and women will move fast - but you'll see there is a clear geographical distribution between the sexes. The women will be clustered around the infant, the men will be clustered around the women or the alligator, depending on how big it is. Gender is not a social construct. It just isn't.
PS: I am not recommending this experiment. It would be unethical. The alligator has no chance.
From Robert Hayes at Let's Try Freedom I got a fascinating link. Sweden, which in most ways is a very enlightened society, is inhabited by a noxious breed of social-equality hyper-feminists (no standing up while urinating, please). That I had known. What I had not known is that to some degree they have established social control sufficient to have implemented the official theological doctrine (bow your heads in respect, please) that:
There is no biological difference between men and women. Observable differences are caused by being "socialized into different gender roles."
Unfortunately science disagrees, and so it is necessary to ban the expression of this heresy:
In one respect Sweden's government is unique in the world. It has a definite opinion about a scientific controversy: whether women's and man's brains are different, or not. The first time i realised that the government had involved itself in neurobiology, was when gender equality minister [! - ed] Jens Orback in a speech about sexual deviations and living with horses [!!! - ed], affirmed:No, no difference at all between women and men, except .... It is difficult to play certain sports when you have big breasts. Women's hearing has slightly different spectrums. The pattern of activity in women's brains differs. Women's response to medications differs. Women's response to physical stress differs. Ask any boot camp instructor. There's a profound difference between men and women.
- The government considers female and male as social constructions, that means gender patterns are created by upbringing, culture, economical conditions, power structures and political ideology.
Apart from taking a position on this scientific question, the government has deiced to side with the most extreme researchers: gene theoreticians who for ideological reasons state that biology can not have any saying in explaining why male and female behaviour differs.
Plonk a young, crying infant in the middle of an auditorium with men and women arranged on the stage alternately. Now let a hungry alligator wander in from one of the far doors and lock all the exits. Granted, both men and women will move fast - but you'll see there is a clear geographical distribution between the sexes. The women will be clustered around the infant, the men will be clustered around the women or the alligator, depending on how big it is. Gender is not a social construct. It just isn't.
PS: I am not recommending this experiment. It would be unethical. The alligator has no chance.
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You mean about the alligator? Ask any southerner who lives in an area with a lot of them.
Given that alligators are a protected species, more sayeth affiant not.
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Given that alligators are a protected species, more sayeth affiant not.
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