C/N: This post mentions the enhancement of birth control, social Darwinism, addiction and transvers
I am a paranormal researcher who does not believe in the paranormal. I check nervous secrets to find out if I can reach below and if I cannot be happy to say that I cannot explain everything that happened. As I recently indicated During an interview on byuradio’s ‘The height of the mind with Jolly Rose‘ The important thing here is that only because I cannot personally explain that it does not mean that it is not subject to interpretation. I started my supernatural research efforts as a believer whose methodology was biased towards finding evidence of ghosts, but after a few years of doing this, I changed my position.
At this time, I realized that there are more puzzles more than ghosts, spites and monsters, I discovered the skeptical movement in the early twenties of my life, and I became a great participation with it. Since then, lectures were given internationally in skeptical events, and were used to host a very common skeptical podcast (good discontent), and I have been written for magazines and websites at the heart of skeptical movement, such as skeptical investigator. In fact, I am still writing to re -launch it recently Smarted UK MagazineAnd for a short time, I was part of the UK Investigation Center.
James Randy legacy
In recent years, I have distanced myself from the movement in general. This started in 2012 when I spent about a week on a car trip with Joe Nickel to explore two cases in the lake in the lake. Nickel taught me a lot at the time about the approach of research that causes daily games for supernatural research that does not give up science, but he does not give up respect and mercy either.
After that, in 2013, “The Heretics: Adventures with the Expliens of Science” was published and in that, there is a moment when Storr writes about attending a skeptical conference in the United Kingdom and how it was strange, that the people who were present. I came across the stage in this conference on a committee with two other people talking about modern ghost research, and made me wonder how I was supposed to have anyone outside the skeptical movement at that moment. I also wondered why I hadn’t reflected this soon. Meanwhile, at “The Heretics”, Storr performs the amazing “Randi” interviews. In the interview, Randy asks about some of the most controversial things he said over the years.
This includes voice support for ideas about it.Survival of the most suitable“That has strong relationships with social face movements and birth control. I also wrote at that time after listening to the interview registrationRandy really said such things. Something made Randy explained at that time as well.
(R) The individuals are hose who were stupid enough to rush to the arms of the legendary blossom and/or Adonis who expect to live with them, and they will simply do so and die – through any chemical or biological fate that will overcome them … The young, poor children who perish by adhering to the grains immediately and achieving poison, calling the tears of crocodile, in my opinion.
“I believe in social Darwinism. Not in every case. I will do anything to prevent a twelve -year -old child from doing it. But in general, I think Darwinism and survival, must be allowed to act on their own. Diseases and so, this should be done seriously to educate them to prevent them from having children. James Randy
In the wake of the reaction to my 2013 posts in which I defended Stourr, I decided to distance myself from the skeptical movement, and earlier this year, I had enough double standards offered once and wrote:
The skeptical movement is largely intended for people who believe that their lack of faith in some non -scientific ideas makes them superior to those who believe. no. Often how someone treats someone who thinks is lower than this a good indication of anyone who is someone.
Many of the skeptical movement fail in this test. The lack of belief should not be all that determines you. The things you believe in – sympathy, friendship, equality and justice – should be what determines and form it. This is what matters most.
The reason I remember this is that the news recently broke out that James Randy died at the age of 92, and something creeping occurred immediately after that. The people I know from all over the skeptical movement went to a kind of collective bereavement, and social media leaflets have drew Randy as a saint-like figure-which was very strange given the extent of controversy in reality.
Personally, I do not think James Randy was the hero of critical thinking and rational thought that many people celebrate. Its removal operations are from people like Peter Bubov, Uri Giller and James Hedrik and more as great achievements, but I support the controversial opinion that if you think that “Darwinism” is the solution to issues in society and that some people in society are less than you because they are “stupid people”, they must hang out like a very dark cloud.
You should be the man who revealed Peter Popov but thinks similar to those who promote to make birth control. You are the man who appeared URI Geller but believes that “dictatorial people” should leave to die from their alleged stupidity. People all over the skeptical movement have ignored this elephant in the room or played the lip service to it only to tolerate Randy of this horror in itself.
Horror of skeptical movement
Ultimately, this forgiveness of James Randy does not surprise me at the slightest thing because throughout my participation in the skeptical movement, I saw people celebrating the “Darwin Awards” and announce that people who fall for frauds deserve everything that happens to them because they are stupid. This lack of sympathy is a settler in movement, but are we really amazed when people who were supported as movement leaders are among the worst people on this planet? Closed sexual predators, fraud, criminals, fraud, liars, infiltrators … and the people who cover them up. Not to mention that the movement was declared with anti-science intolerance in the form of sexual discrimination, homosexual phobia, racism, especially in the United Kingdom-Trancebia?
I used to believe that the skeptical movement was a force for good, and in some cases, it is. However, I think the great things that people have achieved in the movement are taking place despite being part of the skeptical movement. For example, work A good thinking community Impressive and something I can support. This, until the organization’s president, Simon Singh, recently registered to support the transit extreme feminist movement in the United Kingdom, adding legitimacy to hateful intolerance, and he will not clarify his position when asked in public places, especially to do so. In 2018, Singh Likewise, I announced that some members of the skeptical movement in the United Kingdom were accused of voice criticism, “respectable and honest”, along with the movement of skeptics in the United Kingdom. David Colicuhon Those who called them “great people (and skeptics).”
Only for the record, the transfobia that was deeply leaked at the heart of skeptical movement in the UK is as hostile to science as possible. research It has shown that the gender transition improves the welfare of the transgender people, and “and” and “and” and “and”Increasing the availability of medical and social support for gender transition is to improve the quality of life for those who define transgender people‘()source)) According to the World Health Organization,Transient society is at risk of increasing mental health related to the phrase discrimination, discrimination and violenceI personally think it is important to challenge the anti -science discourse that contributes to discrimination on the basis of myths and misinformation.
I thought the skeptical movement also did.
These devastating myths take many forms. For example, the wrong claim that those who move are at increased risk of suicide ((source). Or the claim that women do not feel safe using the areas that are separated between the sexes with passing women when the majority of them say the survey that they are comfortable to do so. ((source))
An error in allegations that self -identification will be exposed to women who use separate areas between the sexes. Such spaces already depend on identifying the identity by those who use it; A right protected under the 2010 Equality Law. The elimination of this right will affect the freedoms of all illogical women based on the absence of evidence that the male aggressors use this freedom to attack women in these areas.. ((sourceThe leading figures in the UK doubts were largely silent about the Transversobia case, a loud silence.
Of course, it is also important to note that skeptical movement is not unique in these issues. There are issues in supernatural research societies with bias and harassment as well, as I have He wrote about this blog before. There are worrying ties with fascism and white excellence throughout the supernatural research communities, especially in American circles. However, the supernatural societies differ from the skeptical movement that the latter is a movement that proud to defend critical thinking and logic, yet it has routinely failed to use the tools that are promoted.
Others who criticized James Randy after his death, like Mitch Horowitz and Greg in the JRIL Diaryand They have been rejected by those in the skeptical movement as “believers with chips on their shoulders” or as ESP, who carry grudges, although I am not quite sure that this is the main motivation.
I am not a believer or an ESP, so I am curious, how will I be rejected?
