Re: "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things. "
What the ... did I just read? This article is like one big strawman argument about "woke" views.
How about this "unbiased" gem: "The popular woke myth that sex is a spectrum is...".
Or: ""Labyrinthine sophistry like “sex is a spectrum” prevails among cognitively sophisticated cultural elites, including those who should know better such as biologists, but it’s rarer among the common people, who lack the capacity for mental gymnastics required to justify such elaborate delusions.""
Gurwinder is the embodiment of the dunning kruger effect. He thinks he is an expert, when in fact, he is not smart enough to know what he does not know. The fact that his own article is a better example to fit his thesis than his own examples just goes to show the extent of their own hypocrisy. This fool even starts arguing against giving people more knowledge and reasoning.
Blue, you may want to review what you post or are you trying to enflame the forums with more debating about trans rights? This article and author is just a bunch of ignorant garbage masquerading as intellectualism. But if this is your cup or tea and the types of views you want to spread on your site, well, it IS your site, so...