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The New Lysenkoists

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• published: 16 Oct 2016
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I finally went there. Here I offer my two cents on what I perceive to be the source of many of our woes. I tried to refrain from being political, but I’m probably going to end up pissing off a bunch of people anyway. Before you ask, the 3rd Quantum video is on its way, I haven’t forgotten. Then after the 3rd there’ll be a 4th, a 5th, maybe even a 6th (hopefully not- I’m trying to keep it at 5 parts.) It’ll get here, just be patient- I’m in graduate school right now and it’s every bit as gruelling (and exciting!) as I’d expected. But I’ll make time for you all, don’t you worry. In fact, if you like, I can produce a weekly show where I go over some of these crazy peer-reviewed articles from the sophists and the Luddites, and it’ll be off the cuff so I won’t have to overextend myself, and I’ll still be able to give you all attention. Only if you want though, I’m just throwing the idea out there. Also, just wanted to clarify something that maybe wasn’t clear from the video- Lysenkoism wasn’t the source of the famines that I mentioned in the video, but did exacerbate them at a time when genuine scientific solutions were needed. I don’t want to give the impression that Lysenko’s ineptitude was the sole cause of these millions of death (though it absolutely did contribute significantly!) These references will be updated as the day goes on, but here are the preliminaries: Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14 Richard Dawkins dissing poststructuralists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1pJ8vYxL3Q Sandra Harding's "rape manual" comment in her book, "The Science Question in Feminism" https://books.google.com/books?id=27TrCuk4LRgC&printsec;=frontcover#v=onepage&q;=rape%20manual&f;=false The auto-ethnographic basketball article: https://www.humankinetics.com/AcuCustom/Sitename/Documents/DocumentItem/03_SHR%2044-1%20McParland-ej.pdf MacKinnon quote https://books.google.com/books?id=rxE8FQzjpYMC&pg;=PA54&lpg;=PA54&dq;=%E2%80%9CIf+feminism+is+a+critique+of+the+objective+standpoint+as+male,+then+we+also+disavow+standard+scientific+norms+as+the+adequacy+criteria+for+our+theory,+because+the+objective+standpoint+we+criticize+is+the+posture+of+science.+In+other+words,+our+critique+of+the+objective+standpoint+as+male+is+a+critique+of+science+as+a+specifically+male+approach+to+knowledge.+With+it,+we+reject+male+criteria+for+verification.%E2%80%9D&source;=bl&ots;=wgBL7hd_2N&sig;=5-mdZeSdq0cqLXAdnI98gCss_HM&hl;=en&sa;=X&ved;=0ahUKEwjs7p7olt7PAhXGy1QKHYHUAaMQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q;=%E2%80%9CIf%20feminism%20is%20a%20critique%20of%20the%20objective%20standpoint%20as%20male%2C%20then%20we%20also%20disavow%20standard%20scientific%20norms%20as%20the%20adequacy%20criteria%20for%20our%20theory%2C%20because%20the%20objective%20standpoint%20we%20criticize%20is%20the%20posture%20of%20science.%20In%20other%20words%2C%20our%20critique%20of%20the%20objective%20standpoint%20as%20male%20is%20a%20critique%20of%20science%20as%20a%20specifically%20male%20approach%20to%20knowledge.%20With%20it%2C%20we%20reject%20male%20criteria%20for%20verification.%E2%80%9D&f;=false Shinobi Yaka’s channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuK58_8EFT4ztv5gPyRf1A/videos Many of the articles presented here are courtesy of an excellent Twitter account comprised of academics who find and expose these Lysenkoist articles. They have my full endorsement: https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KingCrocoduck My Twitter: https://twitter.com/KingCrocoduck Ask me anything: http://ask.fm/KingCrocoduck My PSN: Pitchfork_Maniac