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[arcticdementor]

Go ahead and vote for those awful politicians if you must but surely you don’t think they are our best weapons against the Woke, do you? They are only using the issue to gain political power. If they reach office, they’ll do a lot of awful things, most of which won’t have anything to do with battling the Woke. Doesn’t that worry you? It sure does me.

Paul Topping

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[landrysg]

Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 95 today had he lived.

I Have a Dream speech, via Jerry Coyne at WhyEvolutionIsTrue: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/01/15/monday-hili-dialogue-447/

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[hackernewsrobot]

MIT abandons use of DEI statements

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/05/04/mit-abandons-use-of-dei-statements/

[zsalyafa]

whyevolutionistrue.com

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https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2014/10/19/readers-wildlife-photos-120/10-african-scops-owl/

#african scoop owl #african owl #barn owl #Barred Owl #owl #beauty photography #beautiful #Wild Birds #wildlife

[saemjuhl]

I'm sorry!?

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2019/08/09/the-disgusting-sex-life-of-the-adelie-penguin/

"The physician George Murray Levick, looking for observations to make, decided to spend twelve weeks observing the very large colony of Adélie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Cape Adare. This location is (or was) the largest breeding colony of these animals in the world, harboring several hundred thousand individuals."

"Levick filled two notebooks with his observations, and, when he returned to England, published two books on penguins, Antarctic Penguins—A Study of Their Social Habits, and the more technical Natural History of the Adélie Penguin. But he left out an important aspect of Adélie biology—their sexual habits.

What Levick found was that Adélies practiced all kinds of sexual behaviors that he found disgusting. They forcibly copulated with dead females, with chicks and their own offspring, and males bonked other males as well as living but resistant females. They also practiced autoerotic behavior, with males sometimes ejaculating spontaneously onto the ice."

#penguins #science #today i learned #penguins are doing what?

[outandaboutwithyayagangstalking]

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Readers’ wildlife photos. — Ramblings of an Occupy Liberal

Readers’ wildlife photos. — Ramblings of an Occupy Liberal

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/08/24/readers-wildlife-photos-1390/Readers’ wildlife photos. — Ramblings of an Occupy Liberal

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[arcticdementor]

Nothing was done after the Sokal hoax or the Lindsay/Pluckrose hoax or after Title IX was turned into a ‘sentence first, verdict afterwards’ Inquisition or after the embarrassing meltdowns at places like Yale, Evergreen, Oberlin etc, and nothing will ever be done if we have to rely on academia or the liberals who run it (and I say this as a liberal). The postmodern Critical Theorists have cleared the field of their opponents because they’ve seized the moral high ground and have convinced everyone (themselves first and foremost) that everything they say and do is on behalf of the Oppressed, and everyone who doesn’t bend the knee to them is a backwards hateful -phobic bigot. This is why liberals have been defanged and cannot fight back: they’ve been conditioned to believe that anyone who publicly disagrees with a Crit Theorist is nothing but a racist or Republican, and as this could be social death they know to keep their heads down and their mouths shut. Woke is a direct assault on our civil liberties, on the good-faith conversations necessary to maintain a civilized society, on the integrity of art and science and scholarship. I voted for a Democrat or Socialist in every election from 1992-2016, for Nader and Kucinich and Bernie multiple times, but in 2024 I will vote for Ron DeSantis or Benito Mussolini or Hannibal Lecter, as long as they promise to wage a full Dewokeification campaign. These people are hateful and destructive and they need to be fought and defeated.

Rupert Pupkin

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[landrysg]

Alexei Navalny's final letter

"I have my country and my convictions, and I cannot betray either."

Via Jerry Coyne: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/12/one-of-navalnys-last-letters/

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[hackernewsrobot]

A once respected biology journal indicts evolutionary biology for ableism

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/29/a-once-respected-biology-journal-indicts-evolutionary-biology-for-ableism/ Comments

[knifetopodes]

#criticaltheory

[arcticdementor]

Many university STEM departments have acquired antechambers which do not deal with the subject itself, but rather with its pedagogy—for example, programs in Mathematics Education, typically staffed by academics with little or no competence in the subject itself, but who claim special expert knowledge (and publish papers) about how to teach it. Aside from the bogus grants NSF provides in this area, there is plenty of consulting money for the eager practitioner. One example is Jo Boaler of Mathematics Education at Stanford, one of the authors of the woke-leaning California Mathematics Framework. Professor Boaler has developed an impressively lucrative sideline as a consultant to California school boards (see https://stanfordreview.org/boaler-professor/ ). In view of Professor Boaler’s successes, I have devised a new academic program to train students in the construction of Mathematics Education programs, and in how to write business plans for their exploitation. My new program is called Mathematics Education Education. The new program will reside (intersectionally, of course) at once in the School of Ed, the Business School, and the Liberal Arts faculty.   Needless to say, the Liberal Arts branch will pursue scholarship in the Postcolonial Critical Theory of Mathematics Education Education.

Jon Gallant

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[arcticdementor]

A reader sent me this announcement of a talk given at Cornell University by a scientist from the California Academy of Science. I reproduce the announcement in full, complete with italicization and bolding, though I’ve removed Zoom links and email addresses. (I can’t find the talk online, though she does have a short talk on “Ecology as a Locus for Social Change.)  I won’t belabor it at length, as I find its content simply flabbergasting, but I want to point out five things:

It is “critical ecology” in that it infuses real science (ecology) with “critical theory”, itself containing a big dollop of postmodernism.

It is written in the obscurantist style of postmodernism fused with modern wokeist strains (e.g., use of preferred pronouns)

It is tendentious: there is no way that this style of science can be objective. Its aim, as suggested below, is simply to confirm preconceptions of the writer and to push her ideology into ecology. Note especially this sentence: “Pierre aims to offer systemically oppressed populations a praxis for redress beyond environmental justice.” This is social engineering, not science.

This is also an example of the invasion of wokeism into science, as instantiated by Steve Pinker’s recent statement on climate change in the journal Science. But at least the Science stuff, however wrongheaded, was explicitly about policy. Here we have what purports to be a form of science that involves hypothesis testing, but the answers must only come out in a preferred direction.

Note the criticism of “objectivity,” as in this sentence: “critical ecology also provides a space to address the tension present in defining what is ‘objective’, a practice that has neglected the phenomena experienced by racialized communities.”  Note that “objective” is in scare quotes, and is opposed to the lived experience of those in racialized communities.  It is this redefinition of “objectivity” as “the master’s (e.g. white supremacist’s) tools” that poses the biggest danger of science. Science then merely becomes a matter of one’s preferred opinion or “lived experience”: things not checkable by scientific methods.

The entire announcement is indented.

[@mitigatedchaos]

#jerry coyne #whyevolutionistrue.com #critical ecology

[landrysg]

Via Why Evolution Is True (https://whyevolutionistrue.com/): A "Wizard of Oz" controversy. Was "Over the Rainbow" plagiarized from Norwegian composer Signe Lund (1868 – 1950)?

Listen to the melody starting around 1:24

Signe Lund, Concert Étude (1910), Op. 38

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