13-04-2015, 03:19 PM
Hi all,
I'm glad some of you found it interesting and were open minded enough to have a good look.
I found the article on AGP interesting too, as I have always identified that way.
The internet truly is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows the transfer of unorthodox opinions, subverting the "gatekeepers" of scientific enquiry - which is very good indeed, if the gatekeepers have been corrupted by politics - but on the other hand, media such as twitter allow strident activists to shut down debate, such as the killing off of valid alternative theories such as BBL investigated.
I seriously believe that the "baby has been thrown out with the bathwater".
Maybe there were some deficiencies with BBL's theories - what new scientific theories do not have deficiencies? But they have effectively been trashed because scientists come under pressure from their grant-givers, the politicians, to accommodate niche pressure groups, to the detriment of those who no longer have their own category and get lumped into others.
If transition were always the answer for transsexuals/transgender, why do these instances of de-transitioners occur?
I don't necessarily take these articles as revelatory, but my feeling is that the more information I can find which runs counter to any orthodoxy, the better.
(I'm living proof that orthodox nutritional advice is bogus and bunkum!)
B.
I'm glad some of you found it interesting and were open minded enough to have a good look.
I found the article on AGP interesting too, as I have always identified that way.
The internet truly is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows the transfer of unorthodox opinions, subverting the "gatekeepers" of scientific enquiry - which is very good indeed, if the gatekeepers have been corrupted by politics - but on the other hand, media such as twitter allow strident activists to shut down debate, such as the killing off of valid alternative theories such as BBL investigated.
I seriously believe that the "baby has been thrown out with the bathwater".
Maybe there were some deficiencies with BBL's theories - what new scientific theories do not have deficiencies? But they have effectively been trashed because scientists come under pressure from their grant-givers, the politicians, to accommodate niche pressure groups, to the detriment of those who no longer have their own category and get lumped into others.
If transition were always the answer for transsexuals/transgender, why do these instances of de-transitioners occur?
I don't necessarily take these articles as revelatory, but my feeling is that the more information I can find which runs counter to any orthodoxy, the better.
(I'm living proof that orthodox nutritional advice is bogus and bunkum!)
B.