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Scientist Richard Dawkins Rejects Woke Calls to Purge Terms 'Male,' 'Female': Only Response Is 'Ridicule'
Fox News ^ | February 18, 2023 | Alexander Hall

Posted on 02/18/2023 1:01:29 PM PST by nickcarraway

The outspoken atheist declared, 'I shall continue to use every one of the prohibited words'

Evolutionary biologist and famed atheist author Richard Dawkins blasted woke culture demanding reform within the scientific community.

An organization known as the EBB Language Project was reportedly launched to compile a list of "problematic words" identified by U.S. and Canadian scientists as harmful, suggesting alternate terms to be used instead.

"On Tuesday, academics working in ecology and evolutionary biology called for the avoidance of words such as male, female, man, woman, mother, father, alien, invasive, exotic and race," The U.K.-based Telegraph reported. "Instead, they encouraged the use of terms such as ‘sperm-producing’ or ‘egg producing’ or ‘XY/XX individual’ to avoid ‘emphasizing hetero-normative views.'"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; richarddawkins; science; unitedkingdom; woke
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1 posted on 02/18/2023 1:01:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He’s so stupid. He should just shut his mouth and follow the (approved) science.


2 posted on 02/18/2023 1:04:59 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: nickcarraway

Great but he’s in his 80s. I am much more concerned about the up and coming generation of Academics.


3 posted on 02/18/2023 1:05:33 PM PST by Borges
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To: nickcarraway

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-grassroots-effort-champions-inclusive-language.html

“The project started as a Twitter conversation among a few people discussing potentially harmful terminology,” says Dr. Gaynor, an author on the paper who studies the impact of human activity on biodiversity.

“We reached out to different networks in ecology and evolution that were focused on increasing inclusion and equity in the field to rally support for one very specific action—revising terminology that might be harmful to certain people, particularly those from groups historically and currently excluded from science.”


4 posted on 02/18/2023 1:06:13 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“The EEB Language Project will be a living document, as particular words that are harmful and their alternatives can change over time,


5 posted on 02/18/2023 1:07:37 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdB21UWYLpBupmUUyPuEPautWY5_DzGW1NA2FR0dLLkl7utrA/viewform

Submit your anonymous offending word here. Have fun.


6 posted on 02/18/2023 1:08:56 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

Orwell’s “1984” newspeak.


7 posted on 02/18/2023 1:10:34 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a\ new Socialist America)
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To: PeterPrinciple

offending term: homosexual

replacement: pervert


8 posted on 02/18/2023 1:12:52 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

The people that find things “problematic”.


9 posted on 02/18/2023 1:19:28 PM PST by IDFbunny (Fat shaming works.)
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To: nickcarraway

Glad to see.

You don’t have to be religious to rebel against this crap.

If anything, real scientists of any stripe should be telling them the science says unequivocally there are 2 sexes and they do not change.

If these commie bastards cannot see that, I don’t want to hear from them about “science is real”!


10 posted on 02/18/2023 1:19:54 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Offending term: Trust the Science

Your Replacement: Idiocracy

11 posted on 02/18/2023 1:24:24 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a\ new Socialist America)
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To: nickcarraway
They can't touch Dawkins at this point in his career but the Cancel Culture clout in academia can reach nearly anybody. Just ask James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix who was run out of his laboratory for daring to agree with Charles Murray about genetics, IQ, and race. From the Wiki article:

In 2007, Watson said, "I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system."

He ended up selling his Nobel Prize medal to make ends meet.

12 posted on 02/18/2023 1:34:36 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Real Scientist?
What does that have to do with Dr Dawkins?

Dr Dawkins may have fancy titles and degrees, but he is an ignoramus, not a scientist.

He has written “An adult pig is more human than any fetus”.

Evidently Dr Dawkins never heard of a DNA test.
See, fetuses, they got human DNA. That means theyre human.
Pigs dont. Not even his adult pigs. They got pig DNA.
That means pigs are pigs. 100% pigs. Zero percent human beings.

Thats why when you kill a pig, its okay. You can make him into hot dogs.
But when you kill a person, its murder. No matter what kind of person. A scientist, an ignoramus, or a fetus, it’s murder.


13 posted on 02/18/2023 1:40:04 PM PST by OVERTIME (Tammie Lee Haynes)
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To: nickcarraway

Is he too big to cancel?


14 posted on 02/18/2023 1:50:55 PM PST by Migraine
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like he’s not willing to board the libtard crazy train


15 posted on 02/18/2023 2:31:05 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

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16 posted on 02/18/2023 3:11:02 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: nickcarraway

The woke are simply defined as individuals who have found offense in every incident throughout history and by every individual who has ever lived. IOW, the “woke” are psychopaths and sociopaths.


17 posted on 02/18/2023 3:22:36 PM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: nickcarraway

He has made his career making stuff up.


18 posted on 02/18/2023 3:50:04 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: OVERTIME

Non-sequitur.

He is correct that there is zero need to refer to them as “sperm donors” or “egg producers” or “XX” rather than man and woman or male and female.

Sometimes even a stopped clock is right.


19 posted on 02/18/2023 7:20:34 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: nickcarraway

Simple random chance would indicate that occasionally this idiot can actually be correct. The stopped clock analogy come to mind.


20 posted on 02/18/2023 11:49:10 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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