Human species is mentally ill. What can you do ? Just sit down, relax, and enjoy the clown show.
On Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at 00:20:44 UTC+2 Russell Standish wrote: > I haven't read SciAm for many years (I got New Scientist addiction > when I was a PhD student, and have continued since), but I can see why > you'd be annoying by idiocies like that. > > ISTM this "wokeness" you refer to is basically an outcome of the > intellectually bankrupt idea of post-modernism. Everybody is right, > and nobody's position is priveleged over anone else's. It's not > scientific, nor rational. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 03:58:04PM -0500, John Clark wrote: > > A few days ago the editor of scientific American magazine, Laura > Helmuth, was > > fired and I am NOT sorry to see her go. She was fired because a few days > after > > the election she posted a tweet calling Trump supporters "fascists" and " > > bigoted", but that's not why I'm glad she was kicked out. I'm glad > because she > > also made the following unscientific claim: > > > > "Inequity between male and female athletes is a result not of inherent > > biological differences between the sexes but of biases in how they are > treated > > in sports." > > > > Elon Musk said, with some justification, the magazine should change its > name to > > Unscientific American. Even worse was the way Laura Helmuth treated the > memory > > of Richard Feynman and E.O. Wilson as I explained in the following post > that I > > originally sent in early 2022: > > == > > "In recent days the once great magazine Scientific American has been > plagued by > > a serious and perhaps fatal case of wokeness, it is no longer the home of > > giants like Martin Gardner and Philip Morrison. A few years ago Ash > Jogalekar > > was fired from the magazine by its editor, Laura Helmuth, for writing an > > article that was too complimentary to Richard Feynman, she having judged > that > > Feynman was insufficiently politically correct according to today's > rapidly > > evolving social standards. Then the magazine blasted Joe Biden for > appointing > > Eric Lander, an excellent scientist, as his science advisor because > Lander had > > committed the unforgivable crime of being neither black nor female. And > now, > > just three days after the death of the great evolutionary biologist E.O. > > Wilson, the magazine ran a hit piece on him written by somebody named > "Monica > > McLemore", who is obviously not a scientist, claiming that Wilson was a > racist > > without giving a single quote by Wilson demonstrating that fact. I say > > "obviously not a scientist" (she turns out to be a nursing teacher) > because the > > article contains the following unintentionally hilarious remark: > > > > "The so-called "normal distribution" of statistics assumes that there are > > default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be > accurately > > measured against." > > > > So I guess according to her the great mathematician Carl Gauss must have > also > > been a racist for having discovered the normal distribution more than > 200 years > > ago. > > I wrote the following letter to the magazine, I know it won't do any > good but > > it made me feel better: > > ==== > > > > I've been a subscriber to your magazine for over half a century but after > > reading the shameful article by Monica R. McLemore disparaging the > memory of a > > great scientists like E.O. Wilson just days after his death, I kept > asking > > myself two questions: > > > > 1) Why couldn't Scientific American find somebody smarter than Monica R. > > McLemore to write for them, at least somebody smart enough to know what a > > statistical normal distribution is? > > > > 2) Why do I continue my subscription to Scientific American? > > > > John K Clark > > > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > > tbi > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email > > to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list > > /CAJPayv3F8yXmXZamY3oTdxO7eUU9dJEmtKWxPfK5B%3DrgA3ndGw%40mail.gmail.com. > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/7e84ea54-f629-4655-87a4-a16ec27c2118n%40googlegroups.com.
