mckern

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by mckern 1y ago
Did you read this piece in good faith? I don’t see the authors having the blind spot you claim they have. They made their case for a gametic definition of sex by explaining how the other definitions you’ve proposed are downstream of it. Alo
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by mckern 3y ago
For the race-essentialist practices described by the original poster, Yascha Mounk's "The Identity Trap," published in 2023, and interviews with Coleman Hughes regarding his college experience at Columbia are insightful resou
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Concordia University 'Decolonises' Engineering(quillette.com)
4 points by mckern 3y ago|3 comments
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by mckern 3y ago
In fact, The Economist published a 17,000 word un-paywalled piece [0] recently about the NYT's group think problem. [0] https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-...
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Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)(robkhenderson.com)
227 points by mckern 3y ago|378 comments
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by mckern 3y ago
I'm not sure how conservative funding makes FIRE less credible. To make my point, first, I'm not sure whether the Wikipedia article you are quoting is misrepresenting the demographic of FIRE's donors (i.e. by omitting left-le
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A California professor sues over new DEIA performance reviews(wsj.com)
43 points by mckern 3y ago|88 comments
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by mckern 3y ago
I don't appreciate your ad-hominem attacks. I'm not the "activist" you accused me of being, or the conspiracy theorist/covert "right winger" you're trying to paint me as. I clarify my position here [0
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by mckern 3y ago
I don't appreciate your ad-hominem attacks. I spent two years outside of the US witnessing the idiocy of Trump, and another three witnessing the idiocy and regressiveness of the "progressives". As such, I don't take side
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by mckern 3y ago
Puberty blockers are claimed to be non-permanent. However, that can't be verified at present [0]. In light of that, such a claim being made in the first place is definitely medical malpractice of some sorts. Also, I do not think medica
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A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals(nytimes.com)
9 points by mckern 3y ago|5 comments
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by mckern 3y ago
I'm aware of Weiss' involvement, but I'm not sure why her involvement would discount anything. As far as I know, her views "doesn't fully match" what a left-leaning person should supposedly hold. I'm not s
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by mckern 3y ago
Not sure how the author looks like a crank here. If treating people with patience and encouraging discourse in the face of a barrage of sabotage and false accusations is anti-woke, well, you might as well call sanity “insane”. As for FAIR,
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by mckern 4y ago
Maybe I should have been clearer and used "particular", "flavour", or "brand" in place of "very specific" to describe the kind of beliefs they hold. In other words, I'm not using "very speci
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Science magazine touts the existence of strong and ubiquitous “implicit bias”(whyevolutionistrue.com)
50 points by mckern 4y ago|26 comments
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The New Zealand Herald does a hit job on Dawkins(whyevolutionistrue.com)
16 points by mckern 4y ago|9 comments
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I’m a Black physician, and I’m appalled by mandated implicit bias training(washingtonpost.com)
26 points by mckern 4y ago|5 comments
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How ‘Diversity’ Policing Fails Science(wsj.com)
178 points by mckern 4y ago|291 comments
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White House plan to foster equity and excellence in STEMM is all about equity(whyevolutionistrue.com)
22 points by mckern 4y ago|56 comments
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Enforced orthodoxy in Texas science departments(whyevolutionistrue.com)
2 points by mckern 4y ago|0 comments
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A Witch Trial at the Legal Aid Society(thefp.com)
10 points by mckern 4y ago|14 comments
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by mckern 4y ago
I did not say she was cancelled (in a successful sense), I said there were attempts to get her cancelled. Again, while her attempted cancellation wasn't successful, the fact that such an attempt even happened in the first place is mort
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by mckern 4y ago
More institutions would be ideologically captured by "wokeness", joining the many public corporations, media, non-profits, academia, professional academic associations and etc who have already done so. People on the right will con
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The controversy continues about naming the Webb Space Telescope(whyevolutionistrue.com)
6 points by mckern 4y ago|2 comments
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The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It(secularhumanism.org)
130 points by mckern 4y ago|298 comments
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by mckern 4y ago
I do not disagree that when in rome, act as romans do. However, your original comment did not specify a context like the one you're stating now. If so, my point still holds, generally speaking. And again, they are not hypocrites or pla
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by mckern 4y ago
Such symbols have been used way before the Nazis and are still present in Asian societies today. What’s hypocritical is being woke about issues like this then denying the culture and heritage of others. These people shouldn’t have to modify
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By an Anonymous Stem Professor(hxstem.substack.com)
4 points by mckern 4y ago|1 comments
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Ideological Bias in the Psychology of Sex and Gender [pdf](researchgate.net)
66 points by mckern 4y ago|66 comments
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Why employees want to work in vilified industries(economist.com)
40 points by mckern 4y ago|102 comments

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