Defending Real Science from the Cancel Culture

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I found out my friend Todd was banned from LinkedIn forever for his scientific and biblical refusal to affirm the existence of infinite genders. I immediately did the only thing I could to object to this unfair treatment by cancelling my own LinkedIn account. It is quick to cancel and allows you to give a reason. Here was mine:

"I object to your banning of people who do not accept as "truth" the denial of biological reality regarding males and females. Take your faux "diversity" and stay on your sinking sand of postmodern alternate "science", while those of us who still live in reality build our lives on the solid rock of the real science that was build into the universe."

As a math and physics teacher with a degree in industrial engineering and a degree in library science, I am continually annoyed by people who use the word "science" as if it is a magic word that validates whatever outrageous thing they say. In fact, the job of the scientific method (going back to Sir Francis Bacon) is to submit your ideas to a test in which the ideas have a chance to fail. If they don't fail, you gain confidence that you are on the right track. If they fail, you try a different idea.

Furthermore, science is never "settled." When you stop questioning and testing and replicating, you have stopped doing science. All the fakers out there using science as a buzzword are simply pretending to do science, as they stop as soon as they get what they want. That is NOT science. It is politics.

Keep it real, friends--literally!



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I keep hearing more and more horror stories about LinkedIn, perhaps it's good that I don't use it that much. Curiously, most of the people in my feed aren't politically correct snowflakes (Russians and Indians usually aren't), though I did recently delete one of my connections when she put her pronouns right next to her name.

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In fact, the job of the scientific method (going back to Sir Francis Bacon) is to submit your ideas to a test in which the ideas have a chance to fail. If they don't fail, you gain confidence that you are on the right track. If they fail, you try a different idea.

BRAVO...!!!

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