https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/09/30/a-thought-experiment/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 17:23:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/09/30/a-thought-experiment/#comment-72646 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:23:30 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=15380#comment-72646 Touche’.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/09/30/a-thought-experiment/#comment-72655 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:23:30 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=15380#comment-72655 It depends…
Response 1:
If an an author is radioactive, there’s not much point in providing a forum.
Response 2:
“… there’s a pecking order in the academy: “sexuality trumps neutrality; race trumps sexuality; gender trumps race; and careerism trumps all.” (By way of example, Kors notes that a black intellectual who defends homophobic rap is tolerated, as is a feminist who goes after black misogyny.)”
Response 3:
Suppose a member of the Baraminology Study Group’s editorial board recommended a paper publication of a Stephen Meyer paper in The Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Should he be removed from his position at the Smithsonian Institution due to scientific impurity?
From the Office of Speical Counsel: “NCSE worked closely with SI and NMNH members in outlining a strategy to have you investigated and discredited within the SI. Members of NCSE, furthermore, e-mailed detailed statements of repudiation of the Meyer article to high level NMNH officials. In turn they sent them to the Society. There are e-mails that are several pages in length that map out their strategy. NCSE recommendations were circulated within the SI and eventually became part of the official public response of the SI to the Meyer article. OSC is not making a statement on whether the SI or NMNH was wrong or right in aligning with the NCSE, although OSC questions the use of appropriated funds to work with an outside advocacy group for this purpose.”

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/09/30/a-thought-experiment/#comment-57705 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:20:53 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=15380#comment-57705 It depends…
Response 1:
If an an author is radioactive, there’s not much point in providing a forum.
Response 2:
“… there’s a pecking order in the academy: “sexuality trumps neutrality; race trumps sexuality; gender trumps race; and careerism trumps all.” (By way of example, Kors notes that a black intellectual who defends homophobic rap is tolerated, as is a feminist who goes after black misogyny.)”
Response 3:
Suppose a member of the Baraminology Study Group’s editorial board recommended a paper publication of a Stephen Meyer paper in The Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Should he be removed from his position at the Smithsonian Institution due to scientific impurity?
From the Office of Speical Counsel: “NCSE worked closely with SI and NMNH members in outlining a strategy to have you investigated and discredited within the SI. Members of NCSE, furthermore, e-mailed detailed statements of repudiation of the Meyer article to high level NMNH officials. In turn they sent them to the Society. There are e-mails that are several pages in length that map out their strategy. NCSE recommendations were circulated within the SI and eventually became part of the official public response of the SI to the Meyer article. OSC is not making a statement on whether the SI or NMNH was wrong or right in aligning with the NCSE, although OSC questions the use of appropriated funds to work with an outside advocacy group for this purpose.”

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/09/30/a-thought-experiment/#comment-57704 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:26:37 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=15380#comment-57704 Warren,
Thank you for finally presenting actual investigation into the view of the IOTC. I don’t agree with every claim that you’ve made about this group, but I am glad that you took my criticism of your previous method of opposing the IOTC seriously and changed your approach. Whenever your finished denigrating Peroutka, I’d love to see you do an expose of my book Hidden Facts of the Founding Era and perhaps my next one which should be finished around the end of the year.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/09/30/a-thought-experiment/#comment-72541 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:26:37 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=15380#comment-72541 Warren,
Thank you for finally presenting actual investigation into the view of the IOTC. I don’t agree with every claim that you’ve made about this group, but I am glad that you took my criticism of your previous method of opposing the IOTC seriously and changed your approach. Whenever your finished denigrating Peroutka, I’d love to see you do an expose of my book Hidden Facts of the Founding Era and perhaps my next one which should be finished around the end of the year.

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