XPost: alt.flame.fucking.faggots, alt.psychology, sci.med.psychology   
   From: bernard1958@west.net.au   
      
   On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:01:56 GMT, brainfart  wrote:   
      
   >  Death wrote...   
   >>  By Will Dunham   
   >>   
   >> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a study that sheds light on the biology of   
   aggression, scientists   
   >> swapped genes in gender-bending fruit flies to make boys fight like girls   
   and girls fight like   
   >> boys.   
   >>   
   >> Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Molecular   
   Pathology in Vienna   
   >> focused on a gene in fruit flies dubbed "fruitless," an important player in   
   behavioral   
   >> differences between the sexes of these insects.   
   >   
   >But that is impossible, because according the fabulous theory of "behaviorism"   
   >invented by renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner, all mammalian behavior is the   
   >result of the subject's social environment,   
      
   Since when have fruit flies been mammalian?   
      
   > and has nothing at all to do with   
   >genetics.  This theory led to a number of involuntary sex-change operations   
   >on infant boys whose penises were mutilated for whatever reason, on the theory   
   >that gender itself was learned from one's environment and that if the parents   
   >raised the mutilated boy as a girl he would become a female.   
   >   
   >This B.F. Skinner dude had a P-h-fucking-D in psycholalagy, the same lofty   
   >credential held by Dr. Phil, so how dare you suggest that these so-called   
   >molecular biologists know more about gender roles than respected teevee talk   
   >show psychologists?  Molecular biology is discredited pseudoscience, unlike   
   >reputable psychology which is a hard science with proven principles.   
   --   
      
   "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus   
   handicapped."~Elbert Hubbard to quote a relative of mine.   
      
      
      
   Bernard Hubbard   
      
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