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I used to wonder how the ideological capture of institutions (e.g. universities) takes place and found this article quite illuminating. An essential ingredient appears to be government and/or corporate interests lining up with those of ambitious, corruptible careerists within the institution. Each hand then continually washes the other as the former provide the money and the latter spread the idea while providing it with a veneer of intellectual respectability. In many ways, the current transgender medicine madness has many of the same elements of the shamanism sham (hehe, I hope that pun was not beneath the good professor), and I now see that it is unlikely to be the last or worst put on we'll all have to suffer.

These latter generations of anthropologists manage to make their Victorian predecessors look frickin' amazing. Those gentlemen in pith helmets had their biases but at least they weren't lacking in basic honesty.

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