The Scientific Experts Who Hate Science

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2019-01-09 21:22

Article here. Excerpt:

'This week, the American Psychological Association proved once again that it is a political body rather than a scientific one. This isn't the first time a major mental health organization has favored politics over science -- in 2013, the American Psychiatric Association famously reclassified "gender identity disorder" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, calling it "gender dysphoria" and then explaining that living with the delusion that you are a member of the opposite sex is not actually a mental disorder at all. That ruling was based on zero scientific evidence -- much like the original DSM-5 classification of pedophilia as a "sexual orientation" before it was renamed "pedophilic disorder" under public pressure.

The latest example of the American Psychological Association's political hackery concerns the topic of "traditional masculinity." In the APA journal, it announced that it had released new guidelines to "help psychologists work with men and boys." Those guidelines suggest that "40 years of research" show that "traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly." The APA explains that "traditional masculinity -- marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression -- is, on the whole, harmful. Men socialized in this way are less likely to engage in healthy behaviors."'

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You know, been thinking, trying to tie together the strands. The "surge" toward socialism now happening, for example. Tax everything. Give it to ppl who do nothing. Discourage innovation and effort. Impoverish 70% or more of the population, leaving only actual socialists with any surplus. Then pathologize masculinity. Smash it. Wreck it.

Hmmm. Masculinity is by and large the engine of productivity and innovation. Competition breeds excellence. Excellence breeds advancement. Free markets breed abundance. Masculinity is expansive.

Socialism is contractive. It stifles innovation and competition and breeds mediocrity. It depresses production. It breeds stagnation and scarcity. Femininity is also contractive. It defers. It waits. It takes few chances.

Is this all a grand plan to get America just plain DOING less? Consuming less? Using fewer resources? Is this actually all about de-first-worlding the biggest, most successful first world nation EVER?

I wonder.

Is this how environmentalists are seeking to "save the Earth"?

Dunno.

But if you are looking for a way to get the economy to slow WAY down and depress to the point of almost 0 the birth rate, mixing misandrist feminism with socialism/communism sure is one way to do it!

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2019-01-10 01:36

is this a way of destroying our country? of course it is. the rich, powerful few have just about given up trying to get us to voluntary surrender our weapons, and thus our freedoms, what are left of them. they are now slowly chipping away at what they call our 'nationalism'. open borders is another tool. notice how nobody mentions how the hordes people (potential leftist voters) they want to let in really have no concept of freedom or a government by the people. most come from socialist/Marxist countries. they flee failure and oppression and yet hold their failed country's flags high in our faces. they have no intention of assimilating. there are people here illegally for decades who still can't, no won't speak English. some states have hundreds of thousands of them already voting illegally. notice how many states have laws against having cameras at polling places? if I had a camera at the 2012 voting almost everybody there would have been in prison for voter fraud. it was that obvious, and systematic. changing the voting population by even 1% to the left will turn us into a socialist country. barry said our government just moved too slowly for him to effect permanent change. yep, it was designed that way by men a LOT smarter than that bunch of crooked lawyers and affirmative action half-wits in Washington nowadays.

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Submitted by daveinga on Thu, 2019-01-10 16:45