Working Out Your Issues By Dressing Them Up As Science

[glorioushubris]

On Twitter, Annalee Newitz draws attention to “one of the most heinous things I have ever read.”  It’s a paper by a Dr. Rhawn Joseph, printed in the fringe publication “Journal of Cosmology.”  The paper is ostensibly about sex in space, but is really about safe handling of the Dangerous Human Sex Object, with its fragile internal gonads and its

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[kehrli]

1950 is calling. It wants its science [fiction] back.

Edited to add: Oh, the Journal's main editor is associated with Harvard. Watch me be terribly surprised.

[julieandrews]

The documentary films comment makes me picture him filming his cat chasing a laser pointer and putting it up on YouTube.

That is, him putting it up on YouTube, not the cat.

It's probably a female cat and incapable of operating YouTube due to being pregnant.

[glorioushubris]

I actually watched some of his youtube videos. They are of him giving lectures on the brain, with classy touches like including screencaps from porn when he is talking about the function of the amygdala.