The
American Psychological Association (APA) recently removed John Staddon, an emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience
at Duke University, from the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and
Comparative Psychology (SBNCP) Division 6 listserv, an email discussion group.
What prompted his ouster? Staddon was notified of his removal from the list in
an email from the presidential trio of the APA division. He believes he was
expunged for stating his belief that there are only two sexes, in particular this post: “Hmm… Binary view of sex
false? What is the evidence? Is there a Z chromosome?”
Apparently, the APA troika somehow believed
this violated the division’s code of conduct, adopted in 2019, which states: “Treat
everyone with respect and consideration. It is acceptable in a scientific
organization and at scientific meetings for members to have strong differences
of opinion or different theoretical perspectives on aspects of psychological
science. However, those differences and disagreements can be conveyed in ways
that do not make other people feel threatened, demeaned, discriminated against,
or harassed.”
You know dark days have
arrived when stating an obvious scientific fact can be considered threatening,
demeaning, or discriminatory. (Or can engender strong differences of opinion.)
The APA has also clearly removed “logical” from psychological.
The
suggestion that there are really only two genders (remember binary is bad) might not have been the
only one of Staddon’s posts to have run afoul of the APA. Jonathon Crystal, an
Indiana University provost and professor of psychological and brain sciences, wrote
to Staddon on behalf of the division’s executive committee: “The division
leadership has received complaints about some of the posts that you have sent
to the division listserv. I do not want to get into the particulars of the
range of complaints over the years, but I will note that a number of members of
the executive committee and others have voiced concerns publicly on the
listserv in an attempt to make you aware of how readers of the list might view
some of the posts.” Did Professor Staddon previously infer that the Earth was
round? Did he promote heliocentrism? Did he question bloodletting the sick?
Staddon
told The College Fix, “This incident just illustrates the current
inability of some scientific communities to tolerate dissent about issues
related to sex and race. Psychology and sociology seem to be especially flawed
in this respect.” Tragically, psychology and sociology are now just two more
disciplines that have been captured and co-opted by the left. Though the left
claims to be all about the science (as opposed, say, to those dogmatic,
religion-crazed Republicans), it really disdains science—or anything else that
could possibly question its beliefs. For example, the six steps comprising the
classic scientific method designed to acquire knowledge are: observation,
question, hypothesis, experiment, results, conclusion. Leftists have neither
the patience nor the integrity to carry out this process. They have long-since
determined that inverting and shortening this process is the best way to enhance
and consolidate their power, the only thing that matters to them. Hence, they:
state a conclusion first, then either tell the rest of us about the supposed
result, experiment, hypothesis, question, and observation that allegedly back
this conclusion up…or skip the latter five steps altogether and dare anyone to
question them on their conclusion because, after all, “the science is settled.”
So there!
Soon
we will learn of a math teacher being suspended/fired/shot for claiming that “0”
means “none” and/or the numeral “2” represents two-- and only two-- items or
things. Remember, binary is bad!
Here
is the definition of “two”:
1) a group or unit of two people or
things. Pair, duo, duet, dyad, duplet, tandem, twain.
2) Equivalent to the sum of one
and one; one less than three.
But definitions
themselves are racist! And so are dictionaries! They are part and parcel of the
white patriarchal society! I mean, Noah Webster was a white male! James Murray was a Scotsman…and is there
anything more obnoxiously and snobbishly patrician than the “Oxford English
Dictionary?”
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