Fifty years from now we'll look back at this time the same way we look back at Lysenkoism. Sad to see science has been so corrupted by the religion of Newchurch [0].
That's ... a pretty inflammatory and dismissive point of view.
There's lots of evidence going back to egyptian times supporting the science behind this. Unfortunately most people only see the surface level sound bites thrown out in the media and make up their mind based on that - or what their own religion has pushed forward.
I suspect that fifty years from now we will have built on all the existing knowledge (including historical) and have a more refined understanding put together.
>There's lots of evidence going back to egyptian times supporting the science behind this.
No there isn't. There isn't any science behind this to begin with.
>Unfortunately most people only see the surface level sound bites thrown out in the media and make up their mind based on that - or what their own religion has pushed forward.
Exactly right.
>I suspect that fifty years from now we will have built on all the existing knowledge (including historical) and have a more refined understanding put together.
Hopefully we'll continue with the knowledge of science based biological facts that are no longer in vogue: humans are a dimorphic species that come in male in female. That is what science has taught us.
Where is the science to support the idea that any male who says he's a woman actually is a woman? As that is the ideology of gender identity that is being so heavily contested today.
We look back at Lysenkoism as a movement that promoted a wrong scientific theory using political means that led to censoring alternative theories and killing or imprisoning scientists.
Not only have nobody been jailed or killed for promoting views antagonistic to the view of this presumed "Newchurch", but you are writing your comment under an article about how these "Newchurch" views have been censored after a complaint against them in the name of science.
No matter how hard people try to believe it, we don't live in the time of Stalin and Lysenko. I feel it is disrespectful to their victims to claim that our petty frustrations are in any way comparable to their very real suffering.
xist|3 years ago
There's lots of evidence going back to egyptian times supporting the science behind this. Unfortunately most people only see the surface level sound bites thrown out in the media and make up their mind based on that - or what their own religion has pushed forward.
I suspect that fifty years from now we will have built on all the existing knowledge (including historical) and have a more refined understanding put together.
throwawayacc3|3 years ago
No there isn't. There isn't any science behind this to begin with.
>Unfortunately most people only see the surface level sound bites thrown out in the media and make up their mind based on that - or what their own religion has pushed forward.
Exactly right.
>I suspect that fifty years from now we will have built on all the existing knowledge (including historical) and have a more refined understanding put together.
Hopefully we'll continue with the knowledge of science based biological facts that are no longer in vogue: humans are a dimorphic species that come in male in female. That is what science has taught us.
hugblx|3 years ago
aaplok|3 years ago
Not only have nobody been jailed or killed for promoting views antagonistic to the view of this presumed "Newchurch", but you are writing your comment under an article about how these "Newchurch" views have been censored after a complaint against them in the name of science.
No matter how hard people try to believe it, we don't live in the time of Stalin and Lysenko. I feel it is disrespectful to their victims to claim that our petty frustrations are in any way comparable to their very real suffering.
hugblx|3 years ago
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