This is one of the worst fall from Grace I’ve seen yet. Neil deGrasse Tyson your career is over. pic.twitter.com/Zacwcfz8U8
— Malachi Maxey (@malachimaxeyusa) September 27, 2023
People who spout trust the science will be the first to jettison science if it is inconvenient for a current Leftist cause.
This guy is utterly annoying: “Requires creative thought”. Pffffffff.
So the advantages for the left in doing this “slicing of the population into new categories” not just male and female are:
A) An endless rabbit hole of what, who and how define these “categories”- these will keep changing into the future with no set definition and no final agreement on what’s what. The collateral damage is that true winners in a sport will no longer be able to say they won in their field because anyone at anytime can say that the people they were comparing against weren’t in “fair” categories, only gender categories.
B) A whole new lucrative industry will pop up with unlimited possibilities for people of all fields to insert themselves into this “industry” in order to make a buck. Everyone will become an “expert” according to their “expertise”.
You have to ask yourself, who is to gain from this? It’s not the fans and it most definitely is not the athletes. It’s those who look to gain the most financially. It’s the old, let’s break something then spend endless amounts of money fixing it. Governments do it all the time!
You watch this sort of lunacy cause break away sports leagues. A sort of schism in sport where people are going to outright refuse to play by these insane rules.
And then after all the damage is done and they have completely destroyed the competitive spirit and love of the sports, they will then come back full circle to the conclusion of defining the categories into: male and female.
“Trust the science” is usually code for “follow the money”. Right, Dr. Fauci?
The guy is an idiot. Always has been. Always will be.
-In the same class as Bill Nye the “science guy”, always was.
Niel DeGrasse Tyson is a sad has-been/never-was desperately striving for relevance.
Between this guy and the recent move by an anthropology conference to cancel a panel discussing biological gender because it offends their members, it’s starting to look more like the Soviet scientists and their party approved studies.
These fools would not have gained eminence as spokesmen for science if the general public had been educated in what science is all about. Rather than learning about pulley problems, when trains meet, balancing chemical equations, students should have been given a history of science, to show how science actually progresses, how old theories are discarded and new theories (paradigms) confirmed.
Fix what isn’t broken so what is broken doesn’t feel broken.
Same as the late Carl Sagan who thought his competence in one area was transferable to any others of his choosing.
Completely agree with all here. And it doesn’t surprise me one bit that the plagiarist grifter Tyson once again displays his total incompetence at anything but taking money from idiots.
“Trans” surgery is cosmetic, plastic, surgery. It is a more radical version, but it only alters the appearance of the body. If plastic surgery were to make a person look like a famous celebrity, would the person then be able to claim to be that famous celebrity, and force everyone to acknowledge that this is the case? The “trans” movement smacks of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
My sons asked if our physical bodies are so irrelevant to our gender identities, then why have to change our bodies to conform to our gender identities? I’m not enough of a scientist to answer that question. But it seems like a fair question.
Bob:
I read an outline of a course in history and methods of science such as you propose written by Conant for Harvard in the 1940s, and intended for non-majors. Unfortunately, as I can say as a member of the American Chemical Society, professors are very reluctant to spent time with people not intending to study in their field and on topics that don’t lead to front-line research or industrial employment.
At the middle school and high school level, I led students through the history of select ideas (atomic theory and radioactivity, for example) while still teaching them to balance equations and resolve forces. At that level, it’s not an either/or proposition.
Dave:
I remember reading an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education from around 2010 which did that thing where they separated out “sex” (physical characteristics) and “gender” (mental characteristics.) After talking about how how sex change operations (supposedly) really change one’s sex, it then went on to say that if someone decides to live as a woman that we must respect “her” new sex (not just the new “gender”.) That is, it spent a long time separating out the physical from the mental only to say that if someone merely said “I’m a woman” that you would have to admit his PHYSICAL characteristics changed too. It was complete nonsense, but academics were floating that kind of crap back in the 10’s. The usual timeline is that it’s 10-20 years for it to flow out from academia into the public, so here we are.
As for why they do it, of course they aren’t concerned at all about truth or consistency. What they care about is power. Just like O’Brien derived power from making Winston say that 2+2 = 5, so too do they derive power from making you say that a man is a woman.
The whole thing is constructed to get people to buy wholesale into lies they know are lies, but hold to them anyway through social coercion. Once that line has been crossed, there’s no going back and the citizenry will go along with anything the State tells it to regardless of obvious mendacity.
Thanks Tom B, for your comment. Yes, Harvard did have a course on science for non-majors and the guy who taught it got tenure. And history of science should be taught, along with basics, in secondary school. Congratulations to you for having done so. I wonder whether the powers-that-be would allow that nowadays, or whether those teaching science know anything about its history.
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