Did you know? There are only two gametes.
Fertilization occurs when a male and female gamete combine and make the worst decision of their young lives. (VIEW MORE)
Is Biological Sex Observed or Assigned?
Nowadays, many institutions, especially medical institutions, refer to a person’s biological sex as their sex assigned at birth. This has been from the influence of trans theories: i.e., any theory which believes a person can change their gender and/or their sex characteristics. (VIEW MORE)
Citations:
Let’s Talk About Intersex [ANIMATION] • trf
Research on Brain Sex:
Mosaic hypothesis of brain sexual dimorphism:
Joel, Daphna et al. Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic. 2015.
Joel, Daphna et al. The Complex Relationships between Sex and the Brain. The Neuroscientist. 2019.
Critique of Mosaic Hypothesis:
Rosenblatta, Jonathan D. Multivariate revisit to “sex beyond the genitalia”.
Glezermana, Marek. Yes,there is a female and a male brain: Morphology versus functionality. 2016.
Skepticism of Brain Sex:
Gender Identity in Trans Children:
puberty blockers & chemical castration – #shorts
Many people against the use of puberty blockers (scientifically named gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists) for trans adolescents, will often bring up the fact that some pedophiles use the same drug as what is called chemical castration.
But, this is a red herring that really wants to connect any trans or queer people to pedophilia, which is an age-old trope used to discriminate & criminalize queer & trans people.
Medicines often have multiple applications for a wide-range of unrelated problems.
Puberty blockers = gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists
Red herring fallacy – irrelevant information is presented alongside relevant information, distracting attention from that relevant information
Chemical castration – the use of chemicals or drugs to stop sex hormone production
Other applications for GnRH agonists:
- In vitro fertilization
- Treatment of certain kinds of prostate and breast cancer.
- Children with precocious puberty.
- Management of menorrhagia, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine fibroids for people born female.
- And severe cases of hyperandrogenism.
THE LIES OF LIE-DETECTOR TESTING | JCS INSPIRED
In today’s strange science video, we’re going to look at the lies of the ‘science’ of polygraphy, a.k.a. lie-detector testing. And how from a scientific standpoint it’s absolute bullshit, yet in practice strangely works in some situations. This is part of a series of videos where we examine different hypothesis & theories to determine if they are science or pseudoscience.
Citations:
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. 1963. Buy here!
Popper, Karl Raimund. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. 1934. Buy Here!
Does Science Need Philosophy?
In this episode of Strange Science, we provide a introduction to the philosophy of science in order to ask a simple question: does science still need philosophy? We’ll examine scientific claims about observation, justification, heuristics, and scientific independence from social & political factors. While some really brilliant scientists, like Stephen Hawking & Neil deGrasse Tyson, think philosophy is useless to science, this video will show just a tiny portion of the philosophical presuppositions scientists rely on everyday while they’re sciencing.
Citations:
French, Steven. Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy. Buy here!
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You NEED these books in your life!
Happy Holidays strange thinkers! Don’t forget! ALL HOLIDAYS MATTER!!! So Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Merry Festivus, Happy Kwanzaa, Get your Saturnalia on, or however your holy days self-identify. Here are books you need in your life!
Aristotle. Complete Works Part 1. Translated by Jonathan Barnes, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995. Buy here!
Aristotle. Complete Works Part 2. Translated by Jonathan Barnes, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995. Buy here!
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan(New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 20-21. Buy here!
Michel Foucault, Power: (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3), trans. R. Hurley, ed. J. Faubion (New York: The New Press, 2015). Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: an Introduction. Translated by Robert J. Hurley, Vintage, 1990. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, edited by Colin Gordon, by Michel Foucault, Longman, 1980, pp. 109–133. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the collège De France, 1975-76. Translated by David Macey, Picador, 2003. Buy here!
Pull Yourself Together: A True Story of Alternate Realities, Spiritual Healing, and Dimensional Wholeness. Buy here!
Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton, Columbia University Press, 1994. Buy here!
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Autonomedia, 2014. Buy here!
Farmer, Philip Jose. Riders of the Purple Wage. Buy here!
Laozi. Tao Teh Ching 1. Translated by John C. H. Wu, Shambhala, 2003. Buy here!
Wang, Bi. The Classic of the Way and Virtue: a New Translation of the “Tao-Te Ching” of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi, translated by Richard John Lynn, by Lao Zi, Columbia University Press, 1999. Buy here!
Laozi. Tao: A New Way of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao tê Ching with an Introduction and Commentaries, translated by Chung-Yuan Chang, Singing Dragon, London, 2014. Buy here!
Laozi. Tao Te Ching a Bilingual Edition. Edited by Wang Bi. Translated by Dim Cheuk Lau, The Chinese University Press, 2001. Buy here!
Zhuang, Zhou. The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Translated by Brook Ziporyn, Hackett, 2009. Buy here!
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Routledge, 2002. Buy here!
The Ecology of Attention by Yves Citton. Buy here!
Einstein, Albert. Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition by Albert Einstein. Translated by Robert W. Lawson, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1961. Buy here!
Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature, Barnes & Noble, New York, NY, 2005. Buy here!
Schulman, Sarah. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017. Buy here!
Deleuze, Gilles. Nietzsche and Philosophy. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Columbia University Press, 1986. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1974. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None. Translated by Walter Kaufman, The Viking Press, 1966. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, translated by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1989. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ. Translated by Reginald John Hollingdale, Penguin Books, 2003. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic. Hackett Pub. Co, 2009. Buy here!
Singal, Jesse. The Quick Fix Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021. Buy here!
Plato Complete Works Buy here!
Taibbi, Matt. Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another: With a New Post-Election Preface. OR Books, 2021. Buy here!
Ol’ Dirty Bastard . “‘Cuttin’ Headz’ (Featuring RZA).” Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, The RZA. Buy Here!
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Is Your Science Legit?
Legit question.
Here are the 6 Criteria you need to know in order to determine whether a theory is scientific or not.
- We have to accept that searching for confirmations of our theory is actually really easy… too easy.
- Confirmations should only be considered scientific if it is the result of a risky prediction, or a hypothesis that was meant to refute the theory, but instead confirmed it.
- Every good scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
- A theory which cannot be refuted or is irrefutable is not scientific.
- Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify or refute it, not confirm it.
- No ad hoc explanations of a theory to escape falsifying evidence. We can’t reinterpret our theory in such a way that it escapes refutation.
This list was created by philosopher Karl Popper.
Citations:
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl R. Popper. Routledge, 2002.
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