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The strategies of mob science are uncomplicated and as both Rushton and Gottfredson would learn first hand, they are terrifyingly effective.
Moral cultures reflect their social structures, and victimhood culture is no different: It occurs in a context where there is cultural diversity, social equality, and stable authority.
Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we can’t concede that men face issues too? Isn’t the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere?
Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung.
The claim that we are “entitled to our opinion” is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles.
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too.
Tracking the evolution of music over recent centuries.
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.