Far too many people -- including various "scientists" who haven't a clue about the philosophical principles undergirding their fields -- don't realize that many if not most scientific theories are provisional, are contingent on further developments, that they don't qualify as gospel truth.
But nice bit of analysis of The Singal Incident 🙂 -- you've clearly brought some useful WPATH background to the table that I certainly wasn't aware of. Singal is often rather "long-winded", and I didn't have the time to dig into that background that you've brought to the fore.
Almost monstrously criminal -- maybe it is -- that WPATH "thinks" that surgery is anything other than a last resort.
I am glad to help. Back in the day, I researched the right wing, which I saw as a threat. Now the threat is coming from the “left,” and I am so glad that you are taking them on. It gives me hope.
Hey, apologies for being the skunk at the party, but as a lifelong Yankees fan that quote didn't quite ring right to me.
Seems it may be apocryphal (not that it's not hysterical):
“As to our knowledge, that quote is not in fact genuine,” confirmed Nikki Morton of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The website Quote Investigator traced the earliest instance of the saying back to 1882, where it appeared in the Yale Literary Magazine. Benjamin Brewster, a student at Yale University, recounted a philosophical argument he had with a friend, writing, “What does his lucid explanation amount to but this, that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is?”
In the 1980s, Walter Savitch included the quote — cited only as a “remark overheard at a computer science conference” — in his computer programming textbook, according to etymologist Barry Popik.
A variation of this expression has also been attributed to theoretical physicist Albert Einstein."
I think you have come to the heart of the matter. The clinicians need to appear responsible, even as they continue to act irresponsibly.
The NY Times letter imbroglio has forced the contradictions into the sunlight.
I am reminded of a quote from a great American baseball player, Yogi Berra:
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice -- in practice there is.”
I would also add this from Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
I'm going to borrow that quote for the subhead. It's perfect.
Lovely quote of Berra's, one of my favorites -- short, pithy, but a whole lotta "gravitas" behind it. Reminds me of a similar one by Huxley:
"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/thomas_huxley_101763
Far too many people -- including various "scientists" who haven't a clue about the philosophical principles undergirding their fields -- don't realize that many if not most scientific theories are provisional, are contingent on further developments, that they don't qualify as gospel truth.
But nice bit of analysis of The Singal Incident 🙂 -- you've clearly brought some useful WPATH background to the table that I certainly wasn't aware of. Singal is often rather "long-winded", and I didn't have the time to dig into that background that you've brought to the fore.
Almost monstrously criminal -- maybe it is -- that WPATH "thinks" that surgery is anything other than a last resort.
Which one?
I used to do political research and I used the Brandeis quote on my letterhead. But Yogi Berra is a rich trove of wisdom.
The Berra. It's perfect. The Brandeis is something to live by.
I am glad to help. Back in the day, I researched the right wing, which I saw as a threat. Now the threat is coming from the “left,” and I am so glad that you are taking them on. It gives me hope.
Hey, apologies for being the skunk at the party, but as a lifelong Yankees fan that quote didn't quite ring right to me.
Seems it may be apocryphal (not that it's not hysterical):
“As to our knowledge, that quote is not in fact genuine,” confirmed Nikki Morton of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The website Quote Investigator traced the earliest instance of the saying back to 1882, where it appeared in the Yale Literary Magazine. Benjamin Brewster, a student at Yale University, recounted a philosophical argument he had with a friend, writing, “What does his lucid explanation amount to but this, that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is?”
In the 1980s, Walter Savitch included the quote — cited only as a “remark overheard at a computer science conference” — in his computer programming textbook, according to etymologist Barry Popik.
A variation of this expression has also been attributed to theoretical physicist Albert Einstein."
Don’t mind being updated. Thanks. Still a great quote. I wonder if other Berra quotes are apocryphal.
i think "it aint over till it's over" and "that place is too crowded, no one goes there anymore" are confirmed Yogi-isms.