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National Association of Scholars
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The National Association of Scholars is an independent membership association of academics and others working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America's colleges and universities. The NAS advocates for excellence by encouraging commitment to high intellectual standards, individual merit, institutional integrity, good governance, and sound public policy.
Rescuing Science
We organized a symposium at the June 2024 Heterodox Academy conference. The symposium title was Rescuing Science, reflecting the concern that science in the universities is in trouble - rife with politicization, activism, phoniness, and fraud. To restore science from that sorry state, it needs rescue.
We invited three speakers to offer their thoughts. Prof Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor emeritus at the University of Buckingham, offered thoughts on the perverse economics of government funding of science. He concludes that the economic assumptions behind government funding of science are nonsensical, and that science would do perfectly well without government funding at all.
Dr Seaver Wang, of California's Breakthrough Institute, offered his perspective on how science works at an independently funded research institute, and how this alternative model might serve science and the public better than the dominant university-based model does.
Scott Turner (me) analyzed the network of perverse incentives that have been built into academic science since lavish government funding began to flow into universities, post-WW2.
This video is my presentation.
We invited three speakers to offer their thoughts. Prof Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor emeritus at the University of Buckingham, offered thoughts on the perverse economics of government funding of science. He concludes that the economic assumptions behind government funding of science are nonsensical, and that science would do perfectly well without government funding at all.
Dr Seaver Wang, of California's Breakthrough Institute, offered his perspective on how science works at an independently funded research institute, and how this alternative model might serve science and the public better than the dominant university-based model does.
Scott Turner (me) analyzed the network of perverse incentives that have been built into academic science since lavish government funding began to flow into universities, post-WW2.
This video is my presentation.
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Gender-Critical Feminism and Academic Witch Hunts. A conversation with Kathleen Stock
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Kathleen Stock is a British philosopher who has been a lightning rod in the ongoing transgender controversies. In her book, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, she dives deeply into the confusion that surrounds sex, gender, gender identity, and transgenderism. She argues that transgenderism has allowed biological men to intrude on hard-won advancement for interests of women-which ...
Is Sex Binary? A conversation with Alex Byrne and Holly Lawford-Smith
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On the evening of 17 April 2024, the MIT Free Speech Alliance, the Adam Smith Society, and Students for Free Inquiry hosted another Great Debate. Tonight's debate will consider the question: Is sex binary? Prior to the debate, we had a conversation with the team defending the "Yea" side, Prof Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy at MIT, and Dr Holly Lawford Smith, Professor of Political Philosop...
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I do not understand why Mr. Mills keeps say there is no Energy Revolution going on. By far new generation capacity is renewable energy. The price of batteries and solar PV panels have significantly declined. The revolution will be the creation of a power grid based on battery storage and renewable energy. Mr. Mills is selling the past.
Thank you both for a highly informative and rigorous dialogue. I so hope half our population at least, will hear and understand.
' hash tag GET OVER IT, NO DEBATE ', SMELLS OF ISLAMB; IS LAMB ,,,? OH YES, PART OF A PLAN
So the National Association of Scholars is a place for washed up and outdated bigots. England is certainly a failing nation with Dr. Who and bigotry being the only cultural exports left. Sorry that trans people exist, but yall are not being discriminated for your beliefs. The majority of people accept us and our rights to exist, no wonder your colleagues have abandoned you, they must feel terribly sad for you.
Old testament - Trial by water. Trial by fire Wheel fire - Addie as centre of wheel 59 - close to 60 mins in an hour Madness of darl - platonic divine Punishment of darl is collective punishment over personal values (especially if darl heard Addie say to burn). Addie as christ/fish - she continues to influence after she is dead
If want to get rid of dream image in the head, marry her
We like Faulkner cos of technique, the history of the south is gone
Darwin Marx freud - 19th century Democracy - raising the ordinary to the heroic ideal. Marx - commoners have value
I enjoyed this talk so much. Thank you! I am currently reading AOI and savoring it.
"What do the Trans community need most right now? Abigail Thorn & Freddy McConnell | Pod Save The UK" 12:25 : PhilosophyTube/"Abigail": "Even the way that they have reified biological sex, as if, like, that's an objective fact that's, like, discovered and not something that's assigned like. Like, a lot of people are still like 'well you can't change sex but you can change gender', I say, no, actually clearly you can, I have."
I think “gender critical” is a flawed term, because it suggests skepticism about the existence of gender. The distinction between “sex”, “gender”, “transgender” and “gender identity” is crucial to this debate, and we need to be really clear about what we mean. “Gender identity skeptical” or “transgender critical” would seem more accurate terminology.
"Anti trans bigot" will do. Trans folk have and always will exist, no matter how much you wish it, you cant torture us out of our identities.
Gay men being encouraged to believe that they are really straight women. Straight women being encouraged to believe that they are really gay men. Lesbians being encouraged to believe that they are really straight men. Straight men being encouraged to believe that they are really lesbians. It’s Upside Down World.
When you boil what youre saying down, its just expressing confusion at the idea that trans people are the gender they believe they are and present as. Not to be an armchair psychologist, but I would suggest one reason youve expressed in this way is the prevalence of the old trick of asserting that someone else is doing something for nefarious reasons in order to deny that the reason they say they are doing so exists. This is the idea behind "gay people transition to avoid homophobia" which is ridiculous, of course, as transphobia is just as, if not more prevalent, or that straight males transition in order to assault women. The seperation of these two group's motives, rather than the alternative model that they have the same motive, which is dysphoria, i believe plays a part in your seperation. Idk tho i just wanted to mention that this is a common tactic, the same bathroom idea was applied to lesbians before
@@mothgirl326 "What do the Trans community need most right now? Abigail Thorn & Freddy McConnell | Pod Save The UK" 12:25 : PhilosophyTube/"Abigail": "Even the way that they have reified biological sex, as if, like, that's an objective fact that's, like, discovered and not something that's assigned like. Like, a lot of people are still like 'well you can't change sex but you can change gender', I say, no, actually clearly you can, I have."
A good reasoning conversation is healthy. Even the therapists Tom Anderson and Jaakko Seikkula showed us its healing potential through Open Dialogue. There are many other examples, in peace negotiations, socratic dialogue etc. The basis is respect. It may not always be possible, when the opponent is just playing power gamles, and does not adhere to common reality experience.
Katleen Stock nails it again. A real star.
Great interview. Thanks Kathleen for all you do.
I would use the word pinical rather than ultimate, in my opinion. May be understood easier to lay people.
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Can u be trans without being sexist? I dont think its logically possible. Do trans people not realise how sexist they are
Office space 2.0!
She is great. Really did not deserve to be hounded out of her job by silly little bullies
As a U. S. citizen, I wonder what kind of changes we would see in attitudes if we just make all bathrooms gender neutral. I don't see the big deal if I as a man have to share a space with women. On the other hand, I don't see why a person who has gone through male puberty should compete against women who have not and are obviously disadvantaged. This position to allow people to do this is an example of how the radicals will not give an inch, no matter how sensible.
You, as a male, not minding sharing a space with women, does not mean females don't mind sharing a space with males.
I keep hearing the guys's breath. He should turn off his mic when listening
When the fascists you are in bed with are done with the shameful allyship you provide, they will come for you too. No one is free until we are all free.
No one can be "born in the wrong body", our brains ARE our body just as much as any other part of it. We are the sex we are, regardless of what our personal relationship is with the sexist stereotypes in society. "Trans" ideology, is regressive and sexist, as there is no "correct way" of being a boy or girl, man or woman, all those terms do is indicate sex and stage of maturity - decoupling sex and gender and trying to make gender into this ludicrous concoction of personality and sexist stereotypes is beyond regressive - it actively harms people who buy into it - the idea that there is something wrong with a kid's body that needs to be chemically altered because they believe living up to sexist stereotypes is some real measure of whether they are a boy or a girl (and man or woman for adults obviously), is insanity. I have asked hundreds of "activists" and "allies" to explain what they are measuring themselves against to determine that they have a need to transition - NOT ONE person has been able to articulate what that is - not one person is able to distance themselves sufficiently to realise that THEY are the ones with a regressively sexist idea of what it means to be a boy/girl or man/woman and that that is the issue causing all the problems - their own misunderstanding and severely limited perspective/sexist misunderstanding of what sexist stereotypes/"gender norms" actually entail - they are not rules, they are not real boundaries, they are regressive ideas and generalisations - no one needs to live up to any such utter nonsense or feel comfortable with those stereotypes to be a boy/girl/man/woman - all those terms represent, and all they should represent, is sex and stage of maturity - by creating this whole "gender identity" nonsense, THAT IS WHAT CAUSES ALL THE DISTRESS, THIS FABRICATION OF A FRAMEWORK WHICH DISTORTS REALITY. No one - NO ONE - in the movement has been able to explain or articulate what this supposed "womanly essence" or "manly essence" is that they feel/know/need to transition in order to represent etc. actually is - yet you all actively believe in it and push for it to be accepted. That is ludicrous.
If judith butler had a brain..... I know.... I don"care 😅
PTSD -, great Gatsby ww1 (you can recreate the past)
Recreate the past - retelling the story through novel form, Nick
Real Vs ideal tension
Suspicion of ideal as will to power (obsession/stalker)
A great poet - beauty surpasses or obliterates all other considerations
Fitzgerald negative capability Vs Gatsby's (Emerson's) sublime as egotistical
Sadly they don't post any sources. It's like listening to snake oil salesman smeared by big oil.
Wonderful~ than you both so much! I enjoy listening to the most dashing gent with or without a pink wig. Appreciate NSA hosting such high quality guests, that remind us of the value of serious play and seeking Life
Today I identify as a trans aardvark called Fifi-Trixibelle🦒. Stop oppressing me😡
Truth unmasks fallacy and Evidence is it's proof. Reality heeds no fantasy while Facts uncloak all spoof. Sanity! Our Sanity! Oh, let us Save Our Selves FROM OURSELVES!! Darryl Daniel Powell
This is shocking!!! “Hannah Tubbs 26 year old male sex offender is sentence to a youth female correction facility. A Los Angeles County judge on Jan. 27 ordered Hannah Tubbs, a 26 year old male-to-female transgender Californian, to serve two years in a juvenile detention facility after Tubbs pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2014 - but it's possible Tubbs could only face six months.” He doesn’t appear to have had sex reassignment surgery. Can you even wrap your mind around that?
Yes, unfortunately 50% of male inmates who identify as women in California are violent sex offenders. What’s terrifying is that these men now have the “right” to be housed in women’s facilities - it’s literally against the law for the california dept of corrections to deny a placement request..the consequences are absolutely horrific. The most recent incident was first reported only a few days ago - google: Tremaine Carroll cell mate Central California Women's Facility
Right Xi, this should be a required course in schools across these United States.
Thank you, Doctor Stock. As usual, you cogently make sense of the insanity that is occurring all over the world.
Very nice interview! Just a shame the audio isn't better.
why are my responses being deleted? Stock calls for the right to be offensive, makes commentary such as trans having fake identities and analogies with radical examples of prison rape; which is supporting bullying behaviors in education - as she makes education an unsafe space because of how she frames a conversation. Lastly Stock makes no attempt at a valid or sound philosophical argument about what a women is; if she did she would not have said the things she has or found new learning; Stock's philosophy is rubbish. Personally I think Stock has issues with men and makes no criticism of trans men as a result...
Utterly disingenuous to mock the sex switching fish as this isn't intended to be a direct comparison with humans but as a simplistic retort to those who simplistically claim sex is strictly binary throughout ALL biology. It's a challenge to rigid thinking.
Volume is too different.
Sexologist like thinking tends genuinely quite easily go off the deep end
Which is why we are in this mess. Thanks, John Money.
A lot more people might agree with her if “moral defect as the only explanation for dissent” had not been the go-to tactic of feminism since it began.
The treatment of Stock is appalling but its roots come from within feminism itself and other academic victim "studies" who have an equally apalling history of witch hunting against their "enemies" such as men, white people, straight society etc.
To suggest that within the Cass report there is evidence that puberty blockers hardly ever work is grossly misleading.there are far more reports of the benefits that puberty blockers provide to truly gender challenged children…but I guess that any thing that does not support your argument needs to be swept aside with terms like well we all know xyz .quite frustrating to hear a one sided dissertation with flimsy arguments based on gross misrepresentations formed in a mist of anti trans rhetoric.
No one can be "born in the wrong body", our brains ARE our body just as much as any other part of it. We are the sex we are, regardless of what our personal relationship is with the sexist stereotypes in society. "Trans" ideology, is regressive and sexist, as there is no "correct way" of being a boy or girl, man or woman, all those terms do is indicate sex and stage of maturity - decoupling sex and gender and trying to make gender into this ludicrous concoction of personality and sexist stereotypes is beyond regressive - it actively harms people who buy into it - the idea that there is something wrong with a kid's body that needs to be chemically altered because they believe living up to sexist stereotypes is some real measure of whether they are a boy or a girl (and man or woman for adults obviously), is insanity. I have asked hundreds of "activists" and "allies" to explain what they are measuring themselves against to determine that they have a need to transition - NOT ONE person has been able to articulate what that is - not one person is able to distance themselves sufficiently to realise that THEY are the ones with a regressively sexist idea of what it means to be a boy/girl or man/woman and that that is the issue causing all the problems - their own misunderstanding and severely limited perspective/sexist misunderstanding of what sexist stereotypes/"gender norms" actually entail - they are not rules, they are not real boundaries, they are regressive ideas and generalisations - no one needs to live up to any such utter nonsense or feel comfortable with those stereotypes to be a boy/girl/man/woman - all those terms represent, and all they should represent, is sex and stage of maturity - by creating this whole "gender identity" nonsense, THAT IS WHAT CAUSES ALL THE DISTRESS, THIS FABRICATION OF A FRAMEWORK WHICH DISTORTS REALITY. No one - NO ONE - in the movement has been able to explain or articulate what this supposed "womanly essence" or "manly essence" is that they feel/know/need to transition in order to represent etc. actually is - yet you all actively believe in it and push for it to be accepted. That is ludicrous.
If terf fits then ……it is what it is!
I would never have suspected that academia was so full of downright idiots and moral cowards. Who in their right mind other than misogynists thinks that men hell bent on ruining womens sports deserve respect. Cheats and bullies and invaders of women's privacy. So the bull is the same as the cow to Judith Butler. She should get in a field with both and learn something for the sake of the godess.
This is nonsense from start to finish
Not that you're biased, or anything like that, eh, Fred?
Hello, At minute 31, to the argument, "we've just made-up sex. Sex is in no way real or unalterable, I would separate out real from unalterable. It's entirely the case that people alter things that should be left untouched. Pristine waters are good for life. They're horribly polluted. Such examples can be given seemingly endlessly. My point of practice is: wouldn't the amazing body itself know better than a hubristic surgeon or pill peddler?
Sorry, Dr Curry, I’m not really convinced by your conversion from alarmist to denier. You’re at least a climate realist who takes pains to try to sound moderate and keep a foot in each camp. In my humble opinion, I think that your position is untenable. This “climate change” fiasco is actually not about the climate. Many scientists and even deniers fail to grasp this and continue to engage the “alarmists” at the technical level at their game and your (sincere) attempt to contribute to solutions is admirable but misguided because you have fallen into their trap of distraction. Intelligent people with a scientific background can easily understand climate “science” data. Yes, climate is complex, but all data must be honest and conform to logic and common sense. The thick reams of IPCC reports are there to occupy and exhaust authentic scientists like you. If you could wake up, you’ll realise that the climate alarmism is just a pretence and an excuse for militant environmentalists to take over political control of the world. The truth is climate cannot be controlled nor predicted by humans. Yes, you can study climate but it is to better prepare us to adapt to natural periodic extreme weather. The duty of climate “scientists” is not to make wild predictions or collude with politicians to implement irresponsible policies to impoverish the world and sabotage human civilisation. Yes, we can find better solutions to secure our energy needs but that has nothing to do with the climate. Please give more credit to the intelligent sector of the public. Yes, you are right. The global warming hypothesis is an utterly stupid proposition which right-thinking people shouldn’t have spent more than 2 minutes to see through. It shouldn’t take decades for us to realise that the IPCC and their sponsors are pretending to be stupid just to commit fraud. Sorry if I sound rude, but I’m not.
Well, somebody had to say it. Thanks for being the one.
I think your all far too right winged in thinking and cant accept freedom... Whats it matter if a person desires and undergoes a transitition: why are you so venomously opposed? Stock was the target of students protests, because of the vile things she said, she made education an unsafe space - and it is a shame none of you understand this? You can't call all trans people rapists, delusionary, fake identities and etc as a lecturer in education because you will lead on bullying behaviours or worse...
Words communicate meaning, trying to change that meaning is trying to manipulate society, which is precisely what the misogynistic TRAs are trying to do - Males trying to erase all female sex-based rights and protections from society (some "activists" even go so far as to try claim that no sex-based rights have even existed in the first place). Framing it as society merely being upset about words not meaning what they want is egregiously dishonest, as redefining the term "woman" has profound ramifications across all of society and affects the entire female population. Redefining the term "woman" ONLY benefits the misogynistic males who want to usurp female rights and protections, it does not benefit one single female on the planet.
Oh you are so easily deluded.
@@TheSapphire51 how so?
At what point did Stock, or anyone say " all trans people are rapists "? Can you provide a quote, a paper, a time stamp in this video, anything, ever? No you won't be able to because she didn't. Are u wilfully misunderstanding the logic here, or do you just not get it?
@@ambientsoda106 No one can be "born in the wrong body", our brains ARE our body just as much as any other part of it. We are the sex we are, regardless of what our personal relationship is with the sexist stereotypes in society. "Trans" ideology, is regressive and sexist, as there is no "correct way" of being a boy or girl, man or woman, all those terms do is indicate sex and stage of maturity - decoupling sex and gender and trying to make gender into this ludicrous concoction of personality and sexist stereotypes is beyond regressive - it actively harms people who buy into it - the idea that there is something wrong with a kid's body that needs to be chemically altered because they believe living up to sexist stereotypes is some real measure of whether they are a boy or a girl (and man or woman for adults obviously), is insanity. I have asked hundreds of "activists" and "allies" to explain what they are measuring themselves against to determine that they have a need to transition - NOT ONE person has been able to articulate what that is - not one person is able to distance themselves sufficiently to realise that THEY are the ones with a regressively sexist idea of what it means to be a boy/girl or man/woman and that that is the issue causing all the problems - their own misunderstanding and severely limited perspective/sexist misunderstanding of what sexist stereotypes/"gender norms" actually entail - they are not rules, they are not real boundaries, they are regressive ideas and generalisations - no one needs to live up to any such utter nonsense or feel comfortable with those stereotypes to be a boy/girl/man/woman - all those terms represent, and all they should represent, is sex and stage of maturity - by creating this whole "gender identity" nonsense, THAT IS WHAT CAUSES ALL THE DISTRESS, THIS FABRICATION OF A FRAMEWORK WHICH DISTORTS REALITY. No one - NO ONE - in the movement has been able to explain or articulate what this supposed "womanly essence" or "manly essence" is that they feel/know/need to transition in order to represent etc. actually is - yet you all actively believe in it and push for it to be accepted. That is ludicrous.
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Amy Wax is a wonderful woman.
Thank you Scott for your thoughtful questioning.
the word you are looking for is TRANSCENDER ... RISE ABOVE IT! !!!!! ! !! ! !! ! ! !!! ! ! !
Amazing woman, thank you for sharing this conversation.
The British Empire is lucky to have her.
Brilliant as usual