Richard Dawkins Speaks Out

[Khandro]

In his speech to the politicians, [ House of Lords] Dawkins railed against the ‘debauching of language’ and the assault on science and reason. In particular, he took aim at Gender Studies Professor Anne Fausto-Sterling for her nonsensical argument that ‘sex in humans is a non-binary continuum’.

‘There are two sexes’, he said. ‘Exactly two sexes and only two sexes.’ 

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'Dawkins has weathered his fair share of media storms. In 2013, he sparked outrage on Twitter when he said: ‘All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge.’ In the midst of the Muslim backlash he tweeted: ‘A statement of simple fact is not bigotry.' 

Some may know I'm not a great fan of his - but, credit where it's due. --- would you say ? 

[johnk]

I agree, but he does seem to be deliberately inflamatory

[drmorgans]

 

Perhaps he should join Answer Bank. He'd fit in.

 

[Old_Geezer]

Doesn't seem inflamatory to me. Probably should be to drive the point home to those with limited mental capacity to recognise the obvious.

[naomi24]

Flipping heck, Khandro!  Steady on!  Are you feeling quite well?

[Peter Pedant]

 ‘All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge.’

implies the interesting question ( Dawkins may well have thought about) that Arab science led the world for 300 y and then went phut ( scientific golden age etc 800- 1100). (*)

Hopeless confusion between gender and sex. 

(*) can be recast as why did the C18 scientific revolution last and no predecessor did ? - bit cerebral for AB

[Ellipsis]

> Some may know I'm not a great fan of his - but, credit where it's due. --- would you say ? 

When you agree with him, he's wonderful, and when you don't agree with him, he's wrong. The only logical conclusion: you think you're wonderful.

[drmorgans]

 

"Interestingly" none of Trinity's Nobel prize winners are women.

 

[Khandro]

// The only logical conclusion: you think you're wonderful.//

 

[Ellipsis]

😂