RE: Dawkins loses humanist title
April 22, 2021 at 7:53 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2021 at 8:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That would be biological essentialism, not scientism, but go off. It's not as if the notion that cultural factors are at play is unscientific, or "not science".
Goes back to a comment earlier - the notion that dawkins, a biologist, is a subject matter expert. He's not. He's a biologist and an ethologist, not a cultural anthropologist or sociologist, for example. When he says that there is such a thing as being biologically male, sure, and that's where his expertise ends.....and if you refer to science, the actual and very separate question of gender in society and all that this entails....begins.
Just as people try to squeeze this into their cancel culture fetishes, others squeeze it into their scientism fetishes.
Goes back to a comment earlier - the notion that dawkins, a biologist, is a subject matter expert. He's not. He's a biologist and an ethologist, not a cultural anthropologist or sociologist, for example. When he says that there is such a thing as being biologically male, sure, and that's where his expertise ends.....and if you refer to science, the actual and very separate question of gender in society and all that this entails....begins.
Just as people try to squeeze this into their cancel culture fetishes, others squeeze it into their scientism fetishes.
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