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mckern

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    Great, I didn't know we can dismiss evidence without justifying why. The author claims that there is politicization by ideologues, and the evidence he provided flats out suggests t…

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    Comment #44205514

    Are you just going to outright dismiss the evidence I provided earlier for this politicization? As I explained before, your point is perfectly compatible with his. If you’re able t…

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    Comment #44205343

    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…

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    Comment #44204384

    He isn't saying there isn't such research being done, he's criticizing the attempts made by ideologues to discredit and discourage research along such premises. Did you even bother…

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    Comment #44202359

    The notion of race and ethnicity in biology has been politicised by ideology. Jerry Coyne and Luana Maroja clarifies this in point five of their piece [0] in the Skeptical Inquirer…

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    Comment #42803417

    You asked for "citations", the thread is literally filled with references to them. How is it not bad faith to have to prove to you things that you can easily check for yourself?

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    Comment #42803327

    Don't act in bad faith, the entirety of this thread is filled with examples.

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    Comment #42803258

    Should the work of women be on that list for the sole reason that they are women? There are many more men who have written papers far influential than the ones you've mentioned yet…

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    Comment #40500777

    This makes me wonder if there is a relationship between cardiac surgery and personality changes. I remember reading something similar about Lee Holloway[0]. [0] https://www.wired.c…

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    Comment #40230487

    https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-f...

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    Comment #40230358

    Relevant read: https://unherd.com/2024/04/inside-the-disinformation-industr...

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    Comment #39467187

    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 colleg…

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