Pretty much everyone knows “ gender identity/fluidity is out and out BS, but so many minds , in positions of power, are prepared to be offended by truth, but one now needs to be brave and risk censure, or worse, to state that lies are offensive.
The Victorian government is facing demands to review sentencing policies after a father who sexually abused his five-year-old daughter was given a minimum jail term of just two and half years, with the judge accepting that his transition to being a woman reduced his “moral culpability”.
When you’re not paying attention, science crumbles. Weeds take root and slowly crack apart the bedrock of rationality and reason. It is an edifice which requires huge amounts of time and energy to separate fact from fiction, reality from fantasy.
That’s the nature of entropy, the encroachment of noise and chaos into organization, a process which requires energy to fight.
Without the perpetual effort to maintain the difference between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, science ceases to be science, and it dies - it melts into the greater world of noise, delusion and undifferentiated chaos.
Lionel gets it perfectly accurate. It’s a necessary waste of time and energy to extirpate “trans” from the minds of scientists, and the documentation of science.
As I’ve written boringly hundreds of time, all falsehoods of “trans” originated and are promulgated by psychology and psychiatry, which have divorced themselves in this area from both elementary and more sophisticated biology.
Elementary in the sense that there are only two sexes, immutably fixed at conception. Psychiatry and psychology have lost grasp of reality in that sense, and have reverted to being medieval practices, unable to separate reality from delusion, soul from behavior.
Sophisticated in the sense that ethology and evolutionary biology long ago identify sexual mimicry as an animal - and plant - behavior. Along with altruism and pair bonding, humans share animal behaviors of lying and cheating, which like other animals they use to work around sex competition and male aggression.
But neither psychiatry nor psychology are sciences in a sense, unable to apply simple biology-based measured observations of behavior to humans, stuck in what Nabokov rightfully identified as a Victorian view on sexuality, or I view as regressed to medieval spiritual explanations of the mind.
Sexual mimicry in humans empirically works precisely as it does in animals.
Human male sex mimics avoid male violence and die of lethal assault at half the rate of other the males, as in other animals. Human male sexual mimics successfully avoid sexual competition and are able to gain access to female enclaves, racking up 2x or 3x the incidence of sexual abuse than other males. They bypass social systems of protection, exactly as other male animals do.
For why has this taken hold, the explanation is very simple. Humans can be deceived. We evolved to be deceived some of the time, or lying and cheating wouldn’t exist. We have high sensitivity in identifying humans and human behavior because it’s protective, but we never evolved high specificity of male vs female. Humans are easy to fool by sex mimics.
Being delusional is a strategy to be more effective in deception, because nothing is more effective than a true believer - they create few false signals. And delusion is key to sex mimicry. Delusion and compulsion.
Medical professionals have been deceived (not all, just enough, a level of sufficient influence). Surgeons, endocrinologists, have been deceived. Since we believe they speak from science and reason, they have managed to propagate the deception into law, education, language, entertainment, sports. The deception has even devolved other moderately hard sciences - reproductive biology, physiology, genetics, neurobiology. Sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, economics - some of the softest of sciences were first to fail. Physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, geology may yet be invaded.
The trans weeds planted in science have grown and everything they touch becomes falsehood, lacks distinction between chaotic noise and measured reality. So much science will be thrown away because of the inability to discern sexual mimicry from physical reality, careers wasted.
This comment, like so many, is part of the effort to expose the fictions, and expunge the efforts of mimicry from science. It takes time and energy, as does all scientific rigor.
I was trained in science, and I’ve been watching the phenomenon for more than four decades. I’ve seen smart people taken in by the sex mimicry, and it leads me to understand that science is fragile, and unless we invest more in truth, and invest more in extirpating fiction, it will become more and more expensive to maintain.
Popular conceptions of vaccines is at precisely the same point that trans was 20 years ago. Only people must die for the weed of vaccine denial to be extirpated.
Excellent article! It is so encouraging to see people of significant renown standing up for absolute truth. Lionel Shriver has joined the ranks of hero in my thinking. May the floodgates of reality continue to open into the public sphere. Improbable times, indeed! (By the way, Bernard, you are one of the heroes of today, thank you once again.) Love, Indio
Pretty much everyone knows “ gender identity/fluidity is out and out BS, but so many minds , in positions of power, are prepared to be offended by truth, but one now needs to be brave and risk censure, or worse, to state that lies are offensive.
It's hard to turn a ship around, even when it's headed into disaster -- just ask the passengers of the Titanic.
An interesting clip from today's 'The Australian'
The Victorian government is facing demands to review sentencing policies after a father who sexually abused his five-year-old daughter was given a minimum jail term of just two and half years, with the judge accepting that his transition to being a woman reduced his “moral culpability”.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the wisdom of the gender movement.
. . . With apologies to P.T Barnum
Great post mate
Brilliant.
Excellent article.
When you’re not paying attention, science crumbles. Weeds take root and slowly crack apart the bedrock of rationality and reason. It is an edifice which requires huge amounts of time and energy to separate fact from fiction, reality from fantasy.
That’s the nature of entropy, the encroachment of noise and chaos into organization, a process which requires energy to fight.
Without the perpetual effort to maintain the difference between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, science ceases to be science, and it dies - it melts into the greater world of noise, delusion and undifferentiated chaos.
Lionel gets it perfectly accurate. It’s a necessary waste of time and energy to extirpate “trans” from the minds of scientists, and the documentation of science.
As I’ve written boringly hundreds of time, all falsehoods of “trans” originated and are promulgated by psychology and psychiatry, which have divorced themselves in this area from both elementary and more sophisticated biology.
Elementary in the sense that there are only two sexes, immutably fixed at conception. Psychiatry and psychology have lost grasp of reality in that sense, and have reverted to being medieval practices, unable to separate reality from delusion, soul from behavior.
Sophisticated in the sense that ethology and evolutionary biology long ago identify sexual mimicry as an animal - and plant - behavior. Along with altruism and pair bonding, humans share animal behaviors of lying and cheating, which like other animals they use to work around sex competition and male aggression.
But neither psychiatry nor psychology are sciences in a sense, unable to apply simple biology-based measured observations of behavior to humans, stuck in what Nabokov rightfully identified as a Victorian view on sexuality, or I view as regressed to medieval spiritual explanations of the mind.
Sexual mimicry in humans empirically works precisely as it does in animals.
Human male sex mimics avoid male violence and die of lethal assault at half the rate of other the males, as in other animals. Human male sexual mimics successfully avoid sexual competition and are able to gain access to female enclaves, racking up 2x or 3x the incidence of sexual abuse than other males. They bypass social systems of protection, exactly as other male animals do.
For why has this taken hold, the explanation is very simple. Humans can be deceived. We evolved to be deceived some of the time, or lying and cheating wouldn’t exist. We have high sensitivity in identifying humans and human behavior because it’s protective, but we never evolved high specificity of male vs female. Humans are easy to fool by sex mimics.
Being delusional is a strategy to be more effective in deception, because nothing is more effective than a true believer - they create few false signals. And delusion is key to sex mimicry. Delusion and compulsion.
Medical professionals have been deceived (not all, just enough, a level of sufficient influence). Surgeons, endocrinologists, have been deceived. Since we believe they speak from science and reason, they have managed to propagate the deception into law, education, language, entertainment, sports. The deception has even devolved other moderately hard sciences - reproductive biology, physiology, genetics, neurobiology. Sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, economics - some of the softest of sciences were first to fail. Physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, geology may yet be invaded.
The trans weeds planted in science have grown and everything they touch becomes falsehood, lacks distinction between chaotic noise and measured reality. So much science will be thrown away because of the inability to discern sexual mimicry from physical reality, careers wasted.
This comment, like so many, is part of the effort to expose the fictions, and expunge the efforts of mimicry from science. It takes time and energy, as does all scientific rigor.
I was trained in science, and I’ve been watching the phenomenon for more than four decades. I’ve seen smart people taken in by the sex mimicry, and it leads me to understand that science is fragile, and unless we invest more in truth, and invest more in extirpating fiction, it will become more and more expensive to maintain.
Popular conceptions of vaccines is at precisely the same point that trans was 20 years ago. Only people must die for the weed of vaccine denial to be extirpated.
Science is indeed a process.
An expensive one.
And it’s our process to fix.
Excellent article! It is so encouraging to see people of significant renown standing up for absolute truth. Lionel Shriver has joined the ranks of hero in my thinking. May the floodgates of reality continue to open into the public sphere. Improbable times, indeed! (By the way, Bernard, you are one of the heroes of today, thank you once again.) Love, Indio