Gender and race
Re your cover story, “No sex, please, we’re Victorian” (New Weekly, July 13, 2019). The idea that one can “self-identify” as a different “gender” on birth certificates highlights the disconnect between the so-called social “sciences”, with their post-postmodern view of “truth”, and the hard physical sciences, with their empirical view of truth corresponding to reality (what should be obvious to anyone who beli…