In his book, A Manual for Creating Atheists, Peter Boghossian introduced Street Epistemology (SE) to the world nearly a decade ago. SE is a non-confrontational way to help people clarify what they believe and why they believe it. By asking Socratic-style questions, SE helps people calibrate the confidence in their beliefs to the reasons and evidence they have for holding those beliefs.
Keep up the great work with the Socraticizing! I just finished reading Andrew Doyle’s book which stresses the importance of critical thinking and dialogue. Whether the ideologues are gunning from the right or left, it’s great to find a place to meet each other where we are. To paraphrase Rumi, Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a set of masking taped lines. I’ll meet you there.🤪
So glad NPR is going under the microscope. In a report on a DES Daughter from the older generation, the reporter stated, " . . . for the PEOPLE who get this," about a woman who was dying of uterine and metastasized cancers because when she was in utero, her mother had been prescribed diethylsilbestriol (DES), a hormone believed, without a great deal of proof to prevent miscarriages and improve pregnancy-related nausea. We had to wait a generation to find out that the females exposed to this during gestation would get higher rates of cervical and uterine cancers and were often infertile. Are we now to call them DES-in-utero havers? These are female cancers. I cannot begin to imagine the further complications for any woman whose been fooled into taking testosterone, on top of this situation, because she thinks she was "born in the wrong body."
As one mother I know said to her daughter when she went through 8 months of cross-sex ideation, then desisted, "We are born with one body, we have to take care of it."
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (2022, iuniverse)
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An answer to a question I did not think to ask from in the post!!
What is next?
Looking forward to the content generated around that subject.
Nice shout out for Reid.
All those that support the tip of the spear deserve our sincere thanks and acknowledgement.
Love that you’re tackling NPR. I used to think that they were too tame to be considered Left. Am looking forward to your take on the network.
Keep up the great work with the Socraticizing! I just finished reading Andrew Doyle’s book which stresses the importance of critical thinking and dialogue. Whether the ideologues are gunning from the right or left, it’s great to find a place to meet each other where we are. To paraphrase Rumi, Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a set of masking taped lines. I’ll meet you there.🤪
So glad NPR is going under the microscope. In a report on a DES Daughter from the older generation, the reporter stated, " . . . for the PEOPLE who get this," about a woman who was dying of uterine and metastasized cancers because when she was in utero, her mother had been prescribed diethylsilbestriol (DES), a hormone believed, without a great deal of proof to prevent miscarriages and improve pregnancy-related nausea. We had to wait a generation to find out that the females exposed to this during gestation would get higher rates of cervical and uterine cancers and were often infertile. Are we now to call them DES-in-utero havers? These are female cancers. I cannot begin to imagine the further complications for any woman whose been fooled into taking testosterone, on top of this situation, because she thinks she was "born in the wrong body."
As one mother I know said to her daughter when she went through 8 months of cross-sex ideation, then desisted, "We are born with one body, we have to take care of it."
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (2022, iuniverse)
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