R. D. Kent 🍉

@rdk96.bsky.social

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Research fellow at the University of St Andrews. Working on scientism, aesthetic ideology, and the historiography of scientific crises.

extract from Independent newspaper article reading "Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as 'scientifically illiterate'"

"The resident doctors' wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender 'has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people'"

A Palestine flag and a placard reading "D*kes for Trans Inclusion", both held up by demonstrators on a street in central London.

Trans flag flying at Parliament Square amid demonstrators.

Screenshot of a tweet by transphobic ideologue JK Rowling depicting herself celebrating the recent UK supreme court ruling on the definition of "woman"

Screenshot of a quote tweet.

Original tweet reads: "I do not understand the popular leftist turn against space colonization"

Response by me reads: "One ideological function of scientism is to motivate a deferral of politics in the name of a utopian future. "Don't worry. Science can save us. Just wait for the experts (and their financiers) to figure it out. Don't stop going to work. It's all in hand. Soldier on.""

A mug with a printed quotation from Paul K. Feyerabend reading "The idea that science can, and should, be run according to fixed and universal rules, is both unrealistic and pernicious."

Excerpt from Monique Wittig's "The Straight Mind," originally delivered as a keynote at a conference on feminist philosophy at Barnard College in April 1979.