Over three million views so many will have seen this video, but worth posting for those who haven't. From the video description -
Listen as Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Miriam Grossman walk us through the horrific yet true story behind the Reimer twins. The atrocity of their upbringing, branded as a successful experiment by Dr. John Money, was used as the bedrock of gender and identity ideology that has captured the western world today.
Thank you for that. Sobering would be an understatement. I actually heard about this case when friends of mine studied it as part of a course on the Sociology of Sex and Gender in the late 1970s. This was a radical left-wing and feminist university, and even then they thought that it was blindingly obvious that the "nurture" theory was ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about the suicides and the sexual abuse. Somehow, neither surprised me.
Experts, eh?
God help us.
Sam - I didn't know about any of it until quite recently. It's as if being academically trendy is a goal for certain people because it suits their personality and delivers the kudos.
ReplyDeleteThis is the basis of an ideology that has captured the Western world. A complete failure as a theory and so the idiots adopt it!
ReplyDeleteTammly - too many academics seem to prefer ideology over scientific rigour. In some fields it seems to be the easier way to build a career.
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