Posted on 08/06/2021 8:32:00 PM PDT by Rummyfan
There is no known record of John Money's immediate response to the rank effrontery. Some unknown college teacher in Kentucky—some punk kid, still in his twenties—had, so to speak, calmly knelt down...found his smooth stone by the brook...nestled the stone inside his sling...twirled it faster and faster...and then, at just the right moment, let the stone fly. For anyone with eyes to see, the stone had hit the Goliath-like Emperor of All Human Sex Research On Earth square in the forehead and felled him like an oak (lots of mixed metaphors in here, but whatever...).
The unknown punk kid was one Milton Diamond, recently hired as a teacher by the University of Louisville. The Bronx-raised child of struggling Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Diamond had studied his way out of a hardscrabble, Depression-era childhood, earned a BSc in biophysics at City College of New York, then spent three years in the US Army as an engineering officer in Japan. After returning home, Diamond earned a PhD in anatomy and psychology at the University of Kansas. The teaching gig down in Kentucky was his first academic job.
The poor kid from the Bronx didn't have the illustrious Ivy League credentials of the Harvard-educated Money. Nor did he have the backing of a top tier university like Money. But what he did have was facts, guts, and intelligence. He'd also had enough of John Money's (expletive deleted)—or, let's say, of Money's insidious Reign of Error.
And so it was that in the June 1965 edition of The Quarterly Review of Biology, the young Diamond ran down the mountain toward the great giant, so to speak, and slung his stone with lethal accuracy. Diamond titled his article "A Critical Evaluation of the Ontogeny of Human Sexual Behavior". It was a 28 page obliteration of everything Money.....
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Bkmk
Read it through. Makes sense to me. I have never, ever been able to understand why anyone would want to be other than what he/she was created for. But I can grasp what happened if unusual physical changes came about if an irregularity cropped up in gamete formation. But that takes a lot of investigation into biological processes and instrumentation.
Who is the guy in the photo?
It’s the pro-nature researcher, Milton Diamond. He only looks like Steven Spielberg.
For any who are interested, here is where you can find all the earlier installments of “We Have Met the Enemy”:
https://www.steynonline.com/section/141/the-bachman-beat
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