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Re: Bat fellatio causes a scandal in academia

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Post by patio11 »

I swing far more Republican than I do women's studies, but does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague?

There is almost certainly a researcher somewhere who does comparative anatomical measurements of land and sea mammals. If you bring the visual aids for the study to your friendly neighborhood chemist on the excuse that it is science and she's a scientist so "Haha", I have zero sympathy.

Re: Bat fellatio causes a scandal in academia

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Post by cperciva »

patio11 wrote: post #11

I swing far more Republican than I do women's studies, but does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague? There is almost certainly a researcher somewhere who does comparative anatomical measurements of land and sea mammals. If you bring the visual aids for the study to your friendly ne…

does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague?

Yes. The article refers to "an ongoing discussion on human uniqueness"; I've personally been part of discussions where people have made (entirely incorrect) assertions along the lines of "animals don't engage in reproductively ineffective sexual activity".

I have no difficulty at all in accepting that a paper about bat fellatio was required in order to contradict a belief that fellatio is a human-only behaviour.

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Post by _delirium »

During the Slashdot discussion, someone pointed out this archive of correspondence for more detail: http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/

The woman in question makes allegations that it was ongoing much longer than this single bat-fellatio-paper incident, and that that was just the last straw. The investigators however appear to clear him of any wrongdoing with regard to anything prior to the bat-paper allegations ("Report 2"). His reply seems pretty earnest, but obviously it's hard to say much with just some letters back and forth as evidence.

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Post by [deleted] »

patio11 wrote: post #11

I swing far more Republican than I do women's studies, but does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague? There is almost certainly a researcher somewhere who does comparative anatomical measurements of land and sea mammals. If you bring the visual aids for the study to your friendly ne…

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Post by pmiller2 »

eoin_murphy wrote: post #10

I went to UCC. While it's a fine university, with a lot of history and high aspirations, it's also quite small (approx 15000 students) with a small staff. And in all these types of situations, if either has any political pull with the higher ups the whole thing can get blown out of proportion very quickly. If Dylan Evans produced this paper with the sole purpose of harassing (of which he has been cleared) or offendin…

Evans is not among the coauthors of the paper.

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Post by jacquesm »

dublinclontarf wrote: post #9
cousin_it wrote: post #7

If someone's words make me "hurt and disgusted", does it mean I can have them "monitored and counseled" for two years and take away their tenure? Or do I have to be a woman to do that?

In Ireland you have to be a woman. Also in Ireland if two underage teens have sex, the male is convicted of statutory rape while the female is the victim. Another one for Ireland is recent introduction of some new blasphemy laws. The Irish government is also attempting to censor the net there, lucky for most Irish people they're mostly incompetent.

China looks like a pretty good alternative then, you'd feel right at home ;)

edit: hey downmodder, if you missed the joke that's cool. Parent lives in China, emigrated from Ireland.

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Post by mpk »

cperciva wrote: post #12
patio11 wrote: post #11

I swing far more Republican than I do women's studies, but does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague? There is almost certainly a researcher somewhere who does comparative anatomical measurements of land and sea mammals. If you bring the visual aids for the study to your friendly ne…

does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague? Yes. The article refers to "an ongoing discussion on human uniqueness"; I've personally been part of discussions where people have made (entirely incorrect) assertions along the lines of "animals don't engage in reproductively ineffective s…

Didn't some guy win the ignoble prize a few years ago for documenting the occurrence of homosexual necrophilia in ducks?

You'd be surprised at all the things being researched.

Re: Bat fellatio causes a scandal in academia

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Post by philk »

_delirium wrote: post #13

During the Slashdot discussion, someone pointed out this archive of correspondence for more detail: http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/ The woman in question makes allegations that it was ongoing much longer than this single bat-fellatio-paper incident, and that that was just the last straw. The investigators however appear to clear him of any wrongdoing with regard to anything prior to the bat-paper allegations ("Repor…

If he's been cleared of all the other allegations then they should be ignored. Otherwise all we have is "Innocent until accused of something".

Re: Bat fellatio causes a scandal in academia

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Post by Tichy »

cperciva wrote: post #12
patio11 wrote: post #11

I swing far more Republican than I do women's studies, but does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague? There is almost certainly a researcher somewhere who does comparative anatomical measurements of land and sea mammals. If you bring the visual aids for the study to your friendly ne…

does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague? Yes. The article refers to "an ongoing discussion on human uniqueness"; I've personally been part of discussions where people have made (entirely incorrect) assertions along the lines of "animals don't engage in reproductively ineffective s…

This seems like a good opportunity to recommend the book "Why is sex fun?" by Jared Diamond.http://www.amazon.com/Why-Sex-Fun-Evolution-Sexuality/dp/046...

(Or apparently "The Third Chimpanzee", some reviewers claim that is a superset of the book).

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