SO MUCH SCIENCE: Anthropologist Told She Can't Gender Remains Because We Don't Know How They Identified
http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/08/18/anthropologist-told-she-cannot-determine-sex-of-skeletons-because-we-dont-know-how-they-identified-n2399773
Remember science? Remember when the pursuit of objective truth meant rationally questioning, rigorously testing hypotheses, and reporting the results without political bias?
Good times.
But the times, as they say, are a-changin'. Science has now become a cultish quasi-religion for the Left, and woe to those of you who don't bow down to its ever-evolving dogmas.
Elizabeth Weiss, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, had a conversation with Michael Shermer of Skeptic, and guess what -- anthropologists can't 'assume' the gender of the remains they find because we don't know if that person 'identified' as male or female.
Science is dead. Wokeism killed it.
Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) ~ Imagine telling an archaeologist she cannot determine the sex of a skeleton thousands of years old "because we don't know how they would have self-identified" back then. My convo with Elizabeth Weiss on the Politicization of Anthropology ...
http://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/elizabeth-weiss-politicization-of-anthropology/
More from Skeptic:
Archaeologist Elizabeth Weiss’s new book, On the Warpath, is an autobiographical account of her storied career on the front lines of the culture war in our colleges and universities. Her opposition to the reburial of Native American skeletal remains, her insistence that indigenous knowledge is not science but myth, and her fight against wokeism and political correctness in academia exposed her to numerous controversies and cancel culture campaigns, and a court case.
A photograph of Weiss with a skull — as natural to anthropologists as a doctor being pictured with a stethoscope — led to her university shutting her out of the collection and changing the locks. This became an international news story, as did the American Anthropological Association canceling one of her presentations because she explained that a skeleton’s sex is binary and not gender fluid.
This is going to do untold damage to not only science, but healthcare and our understanding of the world. But the Left only cares that we don't 'misgender' someone.
The rest of society be damned, apparently.
Hao Sun (@HaoSun95713629) ~ I thought it was gender that was self identified and sex was biological.
Gender and sex are whatever the Left needs them to be on any given day for the sake of politics.
Gus (@Gus_802) ~ So, in about 10 years, they will be leveling criminal penalties for misgendering a fossilized skeleton in the UK or California?
Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) ~ The absurdities of woke science know no bounds. Among the latest: a prohibition of research on ancient Carthaginian remains because the individuals concerned never consented to photography.
Something they never would have been able to consent to in the first place ... besides, THEY'RE LONG DEAD, you effing idiot!
The progressive Left are anti-intellectuals, anti-rational, and anti-science.
AtmaSingh (@AtmaSingh2022) ~ Dystopianism, by intellectual & academic rubbish, based on a Woke irrational ideology & infiltration of Western institutions. No. Biology matters. Male and female are biological & historical categories. No case for abolishing them. Trans is a not a serious public policy matter.
Sane people need to reclaim science. ASAP.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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