The following report is by The Telegraph (excerpts):
A survey of almost 200 scientists at British universities, conducted by The Telegraph and Censuswide, found 58 per cent of respondents think sex is binary, except in rare cases such as intersex individuals.
Less than a third (29 percent) agreed with the statement “sex is not binary”, while one in eight people (13 percent) had no views or preferred not to answer.
However, almost two thirds of scientists (64 percent) said gender was fluid, while 22 percent said gender is binary, and 14 percent gave no answer.
Dr Wolfgang Goymann, professor for behavioural biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, told The Telegraph:
To me this just means that at least 29 percent of the academics that filled out this questionnaire do not understand the biological concept of sex, and at least 22 percent of them do not know what gender means.
Leading science journals have been adopting this relativist view, thereby opposing fundamental biological facts.
While we fully endorse efforts to create a more inclusive environment for gender-diverse people, this does not require denying biological sex.
On the contrary, the rejection of biological sex seems to be based on a lack of knowledge about evolution and it champions species chauvinism, inasmuch as it imposes human identity notions on millions of other species.
Dr Goymann recently published an article in the journal BioEssays, where he said some scientists are arguing that sex is a graded spectrum rather than a binary trait.
The survey touched on a range of topics that are divisive in the scientific community such as the origin of Covid, the Government’s pandemic modelling and gain-of-function research, as well as the gender/sex debate.
Only UK lecturers were invited to fill in the form and more than half were educated to PhD level or higher. The faculty of social sciences accounted for 18 percent of the participants, 13 percent were medicine and 12 percent were life sciences.
The survey results come as the Government is launching a review of sex and gender data in research, which spans the entirety of the public sector but will also have scope to “consider research institutions” outside the public sector, including universities.
Prof. Alice Sullivan, head of research at the UCL Social Research Institute, is leading the review which will make recommendations in six months’ time.
Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, a human rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and everyday life, told The Telegraph: “This survey has two remarkable findings. The first is that 29 per cent of academics are apparently unaware of the obvious fact that sex is binary.
The second is that nearly two-thirds of academics say that ‘gender is fluid’. That is a strikingly confident statement about a nebulous concept.
Most ordinary people think “gender” is just a polite alternative to “sex”, so are these academics talking about personal style – masculinity or femininity; or assertions about “identity” – that is, states of mind?
This muddle feeds through into academic research and public policy. It’s concerning that people supposedly among our best and brightest are seemingly blind to this confusion.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew 19:4
Scientist? More like deviant gnostic.
[20] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: [21] Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. 1 Timothy 6:20-21
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The west is coming down like the Berlin Wall. These “scientists” are a bunch of imposters, and this poison has crept into the militaries of the west as well.
Western troops are more obsessed with pronouns, gender identity, diversity and inclusivity; meanwhile, the east and BRICS are preparing for a war and making their men more masculine and stronger. The west including America and the UK are grass!
They don’t know what gender means? Ummm . . . .
…and yet they’re scientists? Right.
Gee…… how hard can it be? last time I checked there were only two genders.