2024 ELECTION THREAD

I guess a better question would be - would you say you say that you treat all advances in science with the same degree of skepticism, or do you reserve the most skepticism for those which conflict with your intuitive notions or pre-existing beliefs?

What I'm driving at here, which I'm sure is pretty obvious, is that you're being inconsistent in your application of skepticism to the scientific method. The method isn't any different for the advances you personally like and the advances you personally dislike, for want of a better term. Or if you think it is, because for example you think the experts have been unduly influenced by politics, that's not an argument you've made.

Unless you have been involuntarily committed or are unconscious, you usually have a choice. In other words, in the overwhelming majority of situations, a doctor can't make you take medicine or pursue a particular line of treatment. In any case, I definitely wasn't trying to get details on your personal medical history. My experience with doctors apparently has been much better than yours.

Wait, what? You think that explains the Earth orbiting the sun? This explanation is quite obviously farcical on its face, since life can't cause the Earth to orbit anything, but if we take it as remotely serious, I guess the obvious objection would be that the Earth orbited the sun before any life on it existed.

I looked them up on Wikipedia and nothing in the article jumps out at me as to what you're referencing here?

It is increasingly common for people to use the terms strawmanning and gaslighting as all-purpose criticisms of a position, with no regard for what the words actually mean.

Most of them probably have him blacklisted as a vexatious patient.

Probably. Maybe you just need to explain it to me like I'm 5. What was the thesis, that the Earth orbits the sun because life on Earth needs it for light and heat, right? Could you explain the mechanics of this in a little more detail please?

Still waiting for this challenge to be accepted

cuepee was quite the unique specimen

Let's not get sidetracked, but here's another one.

The sun is a giant, bright light in the sky. At night, there are other bright lights in the sky (the stars). Those stars don't move. We watch them every night and they have the same position they always do, relative to each other (constellations). It is very likely that the sun is just another one of those stars. Hence, it probably doesn't move either. But something is moving, because we have a day and a night. If it's not the sun that's moving, it must be the earth (and the moon). Therefore, the earth goes around the sun, and not the other way around.

Satisfied?

Now, your turn. Define sex and gender, independently of each other (one definition cannot be embedded in the other).

just an fyi - this exact post would get you permabanned in any of the trans threads

Binary sex is basically having a penis or a vagina, with XY or XX chromosomes respectively.

Gender is the outward performance of being a man or a woman, generally combined with an interior experience associated with a concordance to that gender.

By independently I just take it you mean they describe two different things.

need more posts like this

I feel voting trump is worst then voting Nixon and Nixon did had to step down.

i feel like we've been on the merry go round of this already

i obviously wasn't talking about appendicitis

to make it a post about appendicitis you are either:

• trolling
  
• fundamentally don't understand the situation
  
• taking a cheap shot
  

since i don't think you troll or take cheap shots, my only logical understanding was that you failed to comprehend the issue

i'm still quite frankly confused over why you'd bring that up when we're clearly talking about elective cosmetic surgery

Thank you for answering the question "does the Earth orbit the Sun or does the Sun orbit the Earth?" The question that was asked was "without appealing to physics, explain why the Earth orbits the sun." I'm sure a man of your exceptional mental acuity will recognise that not only did you answer the wrong question, the answer that you gave was actually assumed as a premise in the question that was asked.

I know that you have an aversion to sifting through my posts, so I'll quote it for you again:

So far, you have managed to give a nonsensical answer on your first attempt, and an answer to a different question on your second attempt. I'm not looking to discourage your efforts, but your progress has not been what one might call "stellar".

Are you talking about secondary sex characteristics?

Fake news, even the most leftist poster in that thread was not on board with that take…

I'm sure Rococo will explain this in more detail, but he's honestly not the one lacking a fundamental understanding here.

And I was mistaken. Would you also argue that people on the "pro trans" side of gender affirming care should stay out of the conversation as well, since they don't have medical degrees? Basically, everyone should just shut up unless they're a doctor?

Because an elephant runs the universe.

We don't have a physics explanation for why mass bends space-time to this day.

Handy that the condition was that you couldn't use physics in your answer, then.

Nearly that, yes. Unless they are directly involved in the decision (the patient or the family of the patient, basically) or have a medical education, they should not have any input whatsoever on the treatment of that patient. I really don't even begin to understand how that isn't just obvious.

i don't think anyone has been banned for those statements since your arrival in those threads - but we've 100% had multiple poster perma banned for stating that exact thing d2 said above and if you review the thread of mod statements regarding banning you'll see it is true