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Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes
Modernity News ^ | 04/23/2024 | Steve Watson

Posted on 04/23/2024 9:25:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical care.”

The article states that there are three types of “misinformation,” and they are “oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.”

Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences. https://t.co/1AOp6Bk6A2 — Scientific American (@sciam) April 20, 2024

The piece asserts that “Many of the arguments against trans rights center on the idea that transness itself is not legitimate - that there are just two sexes, period.”

There are only two sexes though.

It then turns to ‘scientist’ Simón(e) Sun, a self described trans(sexual) ándrógýne \ (neuro)biologist, pronouns in bio person and notes “You describe this idea as ‘sex essentialism.’ Can you explain that term, and talk about how it shapes the debate.”

They/she then states “Essentialism is the idea that you can take any phenomenon that is complex and distill it down to a particular set of traits. In the case of sex essentialism, the idea is that you can sufficiently describe sex by a few particular characteristics. In this debate, it used to be chromosomes, now it’s gametes (egg and sperm cells).

Yeah, that is biology 101 and no matter how many times they/she says it’s changed and that anyone who doesn’t agree is a ‘transphobe’, it hasn’t.

Few things better demonstrate how reliant anti-trans advocates are on pseudoscientific disinformation than the desperate replies to this post. https://t.co/o1mSsWNgy5— Simón(e) Sun, PhD \ simonesun.bsky.social (@simonedsun) April 21, 2024

They/she continues, “The target is always moving, because if you want to make something binary, then you need to find the most binary characteristic. Today, sex essentialism boils all of sex down to the gametes that a person produces.”

Again, biology 101.

“But biology is just not that simple,” Sun continues, adding “The sex essentialist perspective is completely wrong about the biology of how sex characteristics arise.”

It is that simple though.

The piece goes on in this vein, throws in ‘hate’ and ‘prejudice’ and climate change and Donald Trump, all to push the ideological agenda that life-altering drugs and surgeries shouldn’t be challenged.

Men can’t be lesbians and gay kids don’t need to be chemically castrated. — Chris {∜} (@ChrisFourOhFour) April 21, 2024

How are you not bankrupt yet?

I mean financially, we can all see how ethically bankrupt you are. — Billy Bragg (@Serena_Partrick) April 21, 2024

No. We just know it's impossible to change sex. That's all. Now, be off with you. — Dr P (@Psychgirl211) April 21, 2024

Oh dear. Your magazine doesn't merit its title. — Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) April 21, 2024

Oh look at you, using all three of those “misinformation” techniques to push a completely false ideology — Dr Alan Bleaching. PpDc DPhil(a) (@alanbleaching) April 21, 2024

This publication is ideologically captured. — EvanC137 (@EvanC137) April 20, 2024

There was a time when Scientific American was focused on science, and not ideologically-driven spin in the name of social justice.

Can we get that back please? — Kevin in Canada (@kjbrosha) April 20, 2024

Modern science — in the name of progress — has gone from trying to understand reality to denying it altogether.

Scientific progressivism is a religion. Don't be fooled by the fact that its priests wear lab coats. https://t.co/7VQnvuW2JQ — Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) April 20, 2024

@sciam is ideologically captured thus is not a serious publication. “Misinformation” is a label given by the ideologically captured for opinions they don’t like. — JLRed (@JLRed5) April 20, 2024

Maybe you guys should check out alchemy and do an article or two about how awesome and scientifically accurate it is.

Horoscopes too. — Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 21, 2024

One type of misinformation is being used to prop up transgender ideology: Denial of the fact that there are only two biological sexes.

You're complicit in the erasure of women. Congratulations. — Pardon My Mess (@PardonMyMess) April 20, 2024

I got to:
“The sex essentialist perspective is completely wrong about the biology of how sex characteristics arise,” realised your entire article is based on making statements while offering zero counter argument facts and decided not to waste my time.@scisci is a joke.🤡 — Heavy Lies The Crown (@CrownOnMyFrown) April 21, 2024

A tactic trans ideologues use is pretending a pseudoscience is “elevated science” people just “don’t understand.” Science uses categories and classifications, like sex, to organize. Human sex is binary and immutable. Science does not mean something must be difficult to categorize — Two Genders One Truth (@2genders1truth) April 21, 2024

All of this comes in the wake of a major long term study in the UK that concluded that treatment gender-confused children have been offered was built entirely on “shaky foundations” and that there is “no good evidence to support the global clinical practice of prescribing hormones to under-18s to pause puberty or transition to the opposite sex.”

The author of the review, retired consultant paediatrician Dr Cass, formerly the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics, called the evidence for life altering drugs “remarkably weak” and warned that transgender activists are the ones “deliberately spread(ing) misinformation.”

Since the review was published, Cass has been subject to abuse and cannot use public transport over fears for her safety.

Gender report author cannot travel on public transport over safety fears

Full story ⬇️


https://t.co/FpfxdP3FX4 — Sky News (@SkyNews) April 20, 2024

Meanwhile, trans activist groups continue to push their propaganda on children, encouraging teachers and school officials to keep it hidden from the parents:


Publicly Funded LGBT Group Asks Teachers Not To Inform Parents About ‘Transitioning’ Children

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KEYWORDS: binary; biology101; fakescience; gender; genderaffirmingcare; hillarycass; homosexualagenda; lastdays; lgbt; lgbtq; misinformation; pseudoscience; pseudoscientific; scientificamerican; sexes; spiritofantichrist; transgender; transmutilationmed; wokeism; xyxx
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To: 5th MEB

Yes, in the 60’s I was a subscriber and fascinated reader of the magazine. But when it changed its focus to the political aspects of science I lost interest. Now things all hinge on how you interpret them, and how you define the words.

I sincerely hope we decide as a nation to leave the permanent aspects of transition to the adult world and leave the concept of women’s sports and bathrooms and locker rooms to biological women. The question of descriptive pronouns is not something of a permanent nature so people may use the terms that people request but parents should be informed for minor school children.


21 posted on 04/23/2024 11:03:59 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: SeekAndFind

Actually, it’s misinformation that there are more than two genders.


22 posted on 04/23/2024 11:14:12 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: LegendHasIt

Yes, unfortunately.


23 posted on 04/23/2024 11:14:55 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lust will make men do anything including eating a corn cob through a knot hole. (I had to keep it clean).


24 posted on 04/23/2024 11:21:30 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Jamestown1630
It bit the dust years ago by going totally woke. It now reports on Junk Science.

This reminds me of my favorite (little known) poet Samuel Hoffenstin who wrote:

"Breathes there a man with hide so tough/ Who thinks two sexes aren't enough?"

25 posted on 04/23/2024 11:40:04 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: SeekAndFind
I think a global nuclear war would be a good thing. The world is too broken to fix. Might as well wipe the slate clean.

26 posted on 04/24/2024 12:36:23 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SeekAndFind
[Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes]

That's weird. Seems that Almighty God hath created and hath declared differently. Gee, I wonder Who will win in the end?

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27 posted on 04/24/2024 1:18:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
[I think a global nuclear war would be a good thing.]

That could be why Armageddon will happen.

Satan has corrupted the Earth too much and too many people keep buying into his lies from his false prophets. Yikes.


28 posted on 04/24/2024 1:24:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is many years ago that this magazine ought to have changed its name. It can nolomger go under the definitions eithe “scientific” or “American,” and this article is merely another instance supporting rejection of those terms.


29 posted on 04/24/2024 1:38:26 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like journalism, science was revered as the sane voice of truth


30 posted on 04/24/2024 1:41:04 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

fkn retards...


31 posted on 04/24/2024 1:46:06 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: imardmd1

We are officially in The Twilight Zone where once-respected (perhaps long, long ago) “publications” are now pushing anti-God, anti-Biology, pro-Satan agendas.

THIS is what a world looks like when the masses of the world are fed delusion and lies; this WILL lead to THE Strong Delusion associated with the rise of the Antichrist.

It’s bizarre how so many jumped on board so quickly. This is how you get fruitcakes like Bill Nye.

It’s sad, really. But not totally unexpected; it was prophesied (see images above).


32 posted on 04/24/2024 2:13:13 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

I read the article and it is fact free. Just a bunch of leftist word salad and nonsense.


33 posted on 04/24/2024 2:19:48 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It was different back then.

I used to get it but quit after its ever obvious leftist drift.


34 posted on 04/24/2024 2:26:50 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SeekAndFind

From your previous OP:

Trans person harasses [Dollar General store] worker for “misgendering.” It’s all a narcissistic power trip.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1782530026623168707


35 posted on 04/24/2024 2:28:15 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind
Its simple, You want me to accept " who you are " when you cant accept " who you are".

The trans community wants you to believe the characters at comic con are all real 24/7/365.

in a nutshell.. its insanity, its demonic, and those who support it are also insane/demonic.

36 posted on 04/24/2024 2:34:11 AM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: Ikeon

Had a woman about 6 months ago “explain” to me that her nephew “Didn’t feel comfortable in his own skin”

Sooooooo.....he’s wearing dresses, now

And she thinks that’s just fine.

There is no helping those being turned over to reprobate minds.


37 posted on 04/24/2024 2:38:45 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Jamestown1630

Scientific American has been gone for a very long time.


38 posted on 04/24/2024 2:59:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux; Liz; bitt; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; Red Badger; rx; rxsid

Scientific American now identifies as Satanic Transgenderism


39 posted on 04/24/2024 3:12:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

I canceled that crap magazine over 20 years ago. Clearly I’ve missed nothing.


40 posted on 04/24/2024 3:14:09 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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