>It’s one thing when magazines like Scientific American go all catawampus on science, but another entirely when a good scientific journal itself succumbs to wokeness.
>The article below, from July’s American Naturalist [...] shows two things. First, it’s one of the more ludicrous examples of science policing I’ve seen. Second, it shows how the American Society of Naturalists [...] has gone down the same woke road as the other ecology and evolution societies.
As someone once said, "everything woke goes to shit". There are few ideologies as pervarsive and corrodive as Wokeness. At the end of the day, it's ultimately about power and ruling over people's thought process.
>The piece’s hectoring tone, which tells us what we MUST do, pervades the entire paper, especially the final section, “A path forward.” Oh, and here’s part of the acknowledgments—the obligatory self castigation
That's par for the course:
1. Point out a non-existent problem (or amplify it to gigantic proportions if it does).
2. Pontificate how it affects some marginalized group(s) and how the problem's day-to-day existence mortally affect the livelihood of said group(s). It's important you're talking on behalf of the group(s) and that you don't provide any evidence.
3. Try to introduce some methodology and/or framework to solve the problem. It's important this new framework be the only "path forward", and morally justified to bully others to accept it even if it has no merits.
>(I have yet to understand what unlived experience is! And what do white settlers have to do with ableism?)
Neither do I!
>The paper, as you’ll see, is really an indictment of biology and undergraduate genetics for not using sufficiently woke language.
It seems that ship unfortunately sailed a long time ago. Nowadays it's about denying reality, and being forced to participate in some individuals' theatrics and self-image or else you'll be labeled a -phobic or -ist.
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On a different note, give Coyne's books (Faith vs Fact and Why Evolution Is True) a read. Highly recommended.
As someone once said, "everything woke goes to shit". There are few ideologies as pervarsive and corrodive as Wokeness. At the end of the day, it's ultimately about power and ruling over people's thought process.
>The piece’s hectoring tone, which tells us what we MUST do, pervades the entire paper, especially the final section, “A path forward.” Oh, and here’s part of the acknowledgments—the obligatory self castigation
That's par for the course:
1. Point out a non-existent problem (or amplify it to gigantic proportions if it does).
2. Pontificate how it affects some marginalized group(s) and how the problem's day-to-day existence mortally affect the livelihood of said group(s). It's important you're talking on behalf of the group(s) and that you don't provide any evidence.
3. Try to introduce some methodology and/or framework to solve the problem. It's important this new framework be the only "path forward", and morally justified to bully others to accept it even if it has no merits.
>(I have yet to understand what unlived experience is! And what do white settlers have to do with ableism?)
Neither do I!
>The paper, as you’ll see, is really an indictment of biology and undergraduate genetics for not using sufficiently woke language.
It seems that ship unfortunately sailed a long time ago. Nowadays it's about denying reality, and being forced to participate in some individuals' theatrics and self-image or else you'll be labeled a -phobic or -ist.
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On a different note, give Coyne's books (Faith vs Fact and Why Evolution Is True) a read. Highly recommended.