Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Domurat Dreger

Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege - The New York Times - In academic feuds, as in war, there is no telling how far people will go once the shooting starts. Galileos Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholars Search for Justice - April.Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice (9780143108115): Alice Dreger: Books.Can academics pursue both truth and justice? What is a Galilean personality? Do activists pollute science? Why did Alice refuse to be lumped in with the so-called Intellectual Dark Web? How can we improve the way newspapers work?īonus: Why did Yoel and Mickey create an (Alice approved) drinking podcast? Alice, who wrote Galileo’s Middle Finger, discusses how her upbringing, her academic background, and her own Galilean personality led her to piss so many people off in the service of serving both truth and justice.

She has also worked as a journalist, founding East Lansing Info, a website that covers local affairs in East Lansing, Michigan.Yoel and Mickey welcome author, journalist, historian, and bioethicist Alice Dreger to the show.

ĭreger has been a featured speaker at TED talks. In a 2008 article and in her 2015 book, Galileo's Middle Finger, Dreger argued that the controversy had gone far beyond addressing the scientific theories presented in Bailey's book to become an attack upon the author. Dreger has been criticized by transgender activist Lynn Conway for her support of psychologist Ray Blanchard's taxonomy of trans women. Michael Bailey in the face of controversy over his book The Man Who Would Be Queen. She has criticized the failure to follow such patients in later life and reported longer-term medical and psychological difficulties experienced by some of the people whose sex is arbitrarily assigned. She has opposed the use of 'corrective' surgery on babies whose genitalia are considered 'ambiguous'. She challenges the perception that those with physical differences are somehow 'broken' and need to be 'fixed'. Northwestern University, Michigan State Universityĭreger engages in academic work and activism in support of individuals born with atypical sex characteristics ( intersex or disorders of sex development) and individuals born as conjoined twins. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship criticism of the feminine essence theory of transsexuality Galileos Middle Finger describes Dregers long and harrowing journey back and forth between the two camps for which she felt.

Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Domurat Dreger