In an essay published in print yesterday, on the Trans Day of Visibility, biologist Jerry Coyne wrote in the Wall Street Journal (archived link) about his recent self-own against the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He said the atheist organization is no different from “religious fundamentalists” because they’ve “abandoned science,” and that’s why he and Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker resigned from the group’s honorary advisory board.
The article predictably paints Coyne as the arbiter of good science, leaving out all the lies he told along the way.
If you’re wondering what this is all about, you can read the whole backstory here. But in short, Coyne wrote an article in December that briefly appeared on FFRF’s website titled “Biology is not bigotry.” In it, Coyne wrongly insisted that sex is binary, lied about trans women, and pushed for discrimination against trans people. (More on that later.)
Nowhere in the piece did he describe the countless ways the trans community is under attack, largely by people making similar misguided arguments.
The article was so devoid of facts and empathy that FFRF soon took down the piece . . .
Continue @ Friendly Atheist.
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