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Modern activism is often performative, rehearsed, and utterly out of touch with reality. Here, I make the bold claim that men and women are, on average, different heights. That appears to have been a bridge too far.
As absurd a performance as that is by activists, the truth is worse than the fact that they are denying reality. They are not responding to what was said. They are immune to new information. They are engaged in theatre, in what I call read-only activism.
open.substack.com
open.substack.com
After @JamesADamore wrote his memo, common sense unraveled at google. Some employees took time off to deal with the trauma of having read that, on average, men and women vary in some ways. How many of those employees do you suppose were men?
npr.org
npr.org
The βgoogle memoβ was publicly excoriated for its supposedly sexist views. In the aftermath, some scientists took the opportunity to scoff at the idea that science involves the pursuit of truth, or should be equated with truth. I defended science here:
quillette.com
quillette.com
The whole event, clipped above, was filmed, and is here. I recommend it. Itβs one of the first times outside of a classroom that I had an opportunity to riff publicly on hypothesis- vs data- driven science, objective reality, and sex differences.
youtu.be
youtu.be
That event was also the occasion on which I met so many fantastic people: Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, James Damore, Andy Ngo, James Lindsay, and Mike Nayna, to name a few. All of us, I believe, worked then and now in service of open inquiry, and open minds.
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