Perhaps you “know” what is “biological sex”, perhaps you still wonder after the deluge of strong affirmations that «sex is a spectrum» coming from the woke quarter. Here is something of use: the transcripts of an expert testimony in a case before of Texas appellate court. Truly enlightening. Before you start reading, some additional info:– […]
Anne-Marie Provost Le Devoir, Montreal, October 22, 2022 Philippe Longchamps, a native of Sherbrooke who has been teaching in Sweden for several years, sometimes likes to confuse his students. After long hours of teaching them the opposite, he claims for a good hour that… the Earth is flat. “I make them believe that I taught […]
One of our members received the following letter from Leslyn Lewis and thought the ideas would be worth discussing on this forum. Are Leslie’s ideas as presented here compatible with humanism? Dear Gleb, Are you a person of faith? Or are you a person of science? Or maybe like me, you feel like those words […]
By Joël Leblanc Science journalist, president of the Association des communicateurs scientifiques du Québec Le Devoir, January 31st, 2022 Science journalism is like music: you have to learn it if you want to play it. It would never occur to anyone to join a professional orchestra by improvising as a flutist or bass player. Francine […]
By Yves Gingras Historian and sociologist of science, UQAM Le Devoir, January 17th, 2022 The announcement of Horacio Arruda’s resignation as Quebec’s National Director of Public Health provides an opportunity to revisit the many criticisms of “THE” science to highlight alleged mistakes made at various times over the past two years. While it is to […]
The following letter from a Vancouver lawyer representing a nurse facing discipline after speaking publically about regulations under the public health mandate to fight Sars-Cov-2 was discussed among members of the NEP board. We affirm the right to freedom of speech and assembly, and no employee should face discipline for voicing views contrary to those […]
In this article a chemist defends science from “political correctness” and “cancel culture” from people claiming to be in favour of social justice. She draws parallels between her history of becoming a scientist in the old Soviet Union and current Woke attacks on scientists and science in the West: The Peril of Politicizing Science (usc.edu)