Article  Can science refute social oppression conspiracies? + Plant awareness + Mpox shut-down

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A scientific perspective on the patriarchy
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/gen...portunity/

EXCERPTS: Do we live in a patriarchy? Does toxic masculinity permeate our society? Are they the reasons why women are paid less than men, and fewer women are working in STEM? There is a long-documented history of these differences, and they go deeper than you might think. Let’s consider some causal explanations. [...] Why is a scientific approach so important in this case? If political activists succeed in convincing the public that pay disparities between men and women are due to discrimination through an ominous patriarchy and toxic masculinity, not only will the data be ignored, but hardworking men will be discriminated against in favor of parity. I am not suggesting women should be discouraged from entering competitive fields; on the contrary, I am arguing for fairness. (MORE - details)
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Good luck with trying to stop the conspiracies of Critical Theory offshoots with science data, this late in the game. Science itself is being rebuilt by "social oppression ideology", which includes the decolonization ripple (not just the local or immediate administrative policies of institutes).

Like someone once said: If you want to make a scientist's brains or critical thinking fall-out, just shout racism, sexism, and other machinations. By the time they finally wake up to what is re-designing how their own profession works, the frog has been boiled.

In contrast, religious fundamentalists are accordingly unable to prey on the left political bias of most people in the academic community. (Well, actually indigenous, Islamic, and other non-Eurocentric beliefs incrementally can, since they are infiltrating and influencing from the opposite side of the political spectrum. Anthropology is an example of deference to indigenous superstitions.



Are Plants Conscious?
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/08/ar...conscious/

EXCERPTS: Plant “neuroscientists” love to use words such as intelligence, cognition, and even feelings liberally, thus constantly underscoring the alleged similarities between plants and animals. But such words have rather specific meanings—especially in a scientific context—and those meanings can’t unilaterally be expanded at will just to score a rhetorical point.

[...] Plants are fascinating in part precisely because they are so different from animals. They display a remarkable range of behaviors, which involve internal and external signaling done via hormones and environmental receptors. But these mechanisms are not analogous to animal neurons, synapses, and the like.

[...] Feinberg and Mallatt concluded that the only living organisms that can be reliably said to have consciousness are vertebrates (including fish), arthropods (insects and crustaceans), and cephalopods (octopuses, squids, and the like). Not plants, fungi, or bacteria.

As Taiz and colleagues noted, there is nothing new here. The Romantics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also ascribed feelings and intentionality to plants, in reaction to what they saw as the cold mechanistic philosophy of Descartes and later of the Enlightenment thinkers... (MORE - details)
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Plant consciousness and intelligence is yet another item that's likely prospers under the multicultural diversification of science, where the latter must no longer be dominated by Western biases. What ancient tradition will become kosher next? Animism in general? (Hello, rocks.)


This new TikTok conspiracy theory is dumb and dangerous
https://slate.com/technology/2024/08/mpo...heory.html

INTRO: A new public health rumor is making the rounds on TikTok. People are apparently worried that a “second lockdown” is imminent, this time caused by mpox (formerly known as monkeypox)—a virus in the pox family that causes fluid-filled blisters and can spread from person to person via close contact or sex. I cannot stress enough how unfounded this fear is... (MORE - details)
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Heh. Unlike Covid, you don't have to worry about any disease primarily transmitted by sex shutting down society. That's infringing on the secular, ideologically Sacred Cow territory of personal lifestyles. People could be dropping like flies or massively suffering, but the most the establishment would do is ramp up talk about practicing safe profligacy at daily meetup bars and multi-spousal swinger gatherings.
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