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Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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That’s great, but really it’s only a certain few (relative to the entire population) that we need to trust scientists. I know 2+2=4, but I need my representatives to know and trust the math professor that teaches that for a living.
But it cuts both ways. Climate change is real. We landed on the moon. Men have XY chromosomes and women have XX chromosomes, there is a fraction of a fraction of a percent that do have XXY or XYY, but anything else is made up. Vaccines work and are not government control. Masks work.
Science knows no political affiliation and I hate when it gets politicized.
Downvoted for transphobic language on chromosomes.
Da FAQ?!
"Men" and "women" are gender identities. XX and XY chromosomes are genetic traits that inform but do not exclusively prescribe biological sex.
Equating gender and sex is a common tactic used to invalidate and illegitimize the identity of transgender individuals by ignoring their identity (which is the part that actually matters) and focusing only on their biology.
For example: Telling a trans man (born female) that he is a "woman" because he has a uterus is rejecting and denying his identity despite presenting and acting masculine in every other way. Biologically, he's female, but that doesn't demand that he acts like a woman.
For an analogy, consider expatriates. Suppose some guy was born in the United States, and after his service in their Veitnam war, he chose to emigrate to France and rescind his American citizenship due to ideological differences with his former country. He's French by every definition other than his country assigned at birth. You wouldn't call him American because that's what he started out as, right?