Science gotten political?

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I remember reading things a decade ago and there were multiple studies for example on intelligence being mostly genetic. I read about lots of twin studies suggesting that environment can effect an IQ score by around 10 points. But after talking to someone about this I go on google to give him a source and every site is saying that its basically not true its almost completely environmental.

Also I remember years ago reading about how male brains are wired towards different types of activities that gives them an advantage over women in certain areas. And it was vice versa that females naturally excelled in some areas over men. But I go to go read some of the stuff and every source is "male and female brains are a myth".

It just makes me wonder how around 2016 science suddenly took a big swing in multiple areas. If you go and search for "male brain excell at" and look at articles from before 2014 they say the exact opposite of what they say in articles after 2014. Go ahead and do some research on those two topics and you will see a big change in the two. Perhaps it is just that science is always evolving and they were always wrong. But the new articles I havr seen dont cite the same number of studies and they do not attempt to debunk the old ones.

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  • Meatballsandwich
    2 years ago

    It seems like political correctness started going overboard around that period. Just 10 years ago, you weren't called-out for saying that there are only 2 genders, because that was the accepted fact back then. Back then, people would think you're a moron if you were to say that there are 72 different genders, and that transwomen should compete in women's sports.

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  • ChrissySnow
    2 years ago

    It is true that science is becoming political. My husband is a Biologist and he complains about all the "bad science" being published without peer review or scrutiny. My brother is a PhD statistician and he laughs about the state of research now. He claims he has yet to find a research article that wasn't full of errors. My husband and my brother or opposite politically but they agree on this totally

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    • LloydAsher
      2 years ago

      My father is a doctor and he was dumbfounded that "doctors" were considering to take gender dismorphia out of the DSM5 (index of all known mental disorders and how to identify them). It's still in there but the notion that thinking ones sex is different than what they were born with is natural enough to be taken out of that index is gut wrenching to him.

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  • DADNSCAL
    2 years ago

    Science was politicized by people who either don’t understand it or won’t accept it because it doesn’t fit into their parochial world view, just as it has for centuries. Galileo had to recant his testimony that the world revolves on its axis or face torture. But as he rose he said, “Vertit tamen”. It turns whether I say so or not.

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  • olderdude-xx
    2 years ago

    This is largely because after conducting a fairly large number of independent studies that it has been found that how a person is raised has a lot to do with their capabilities as an adults. That this can override - or supplement - a person's natural abilities.

    So the science had not gotten political. It has identified that politics and the desires of family for a daughter or son to become "something" often overrides a persons natural talents.

    The Bible teaches us to raise our children as they are. Not to raise them as we want them to be. Unfortunately, the vast majority of parents, with society's support, raise their children as they want them to be.

    It greatly enhances a child's natural abilities if they are raised to become the person they were meant to be based on their natural abilities.

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    • LloydAsher
      2 years ago

      As a parent it is your duty to raise you kid right. Not as how your kid wants to be raised.

      By natural abilities I'm going to take that as if they are good at math or using tools. Yes being fostered with their innate talents would be beneficial for their overall growth. What isnt a natural talent though is selecting their gender because you are born with it. No matter the surgery or the amount of smoke up their ass will change that. My goal as a future parent is to raise another functioning adult.

      Though I will try my damndest to raise them with an appreciation for hard sciences... idk maybe teach them "wizardry" (physics and chemistry under the guise of magic when they are young) because technology and chemistry closest thing we have to magic. Just so happens those professions are high paying.

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      • olderdude-xx
        2 years ago

        This is not a question of raising them right (as defined by the parents). Its a question of raising them to take advantage of their natural abilities.

        You can raise children to emphasize their natural capabilities, develop as best they can their key weaknesses to a point that they can function adequately, and still instill into them morals, religion, and values.

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  • [Old Memory]
    2 years ago

    Politics is found in everything.

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