If I told you I believed the Earth was flat, you'd be left with two options: to call me a liar, or to accept that I'm a science-denying idiot who probably shouldn't be in charge of tying my own shoes.
Which are pretty much the only two choices we have when it comes to one anthropologist, who told a roomful of people this week that there's no way scientists can tell male from female skeletal remains. Which, on top of being patently false, is really quite laughable.
And that's exactly what happened.
During a discussion hosted by the Leadership Institute at the University of Pittsburgh this week, swimmer Riley Gaines, a biological woman who's spoken out in favor of protecting women's sports after she was forced to compete against "transgender" swimmer William "Lia" Thomas (who's still a dude), asked a man claiming to be an anthropologist whether it was possible to tell the skeletal remains of a male human apart from those of a female, given their well-documented and significant anatomical differences.
"You being an anthropologist, which anthropology is the study of human civilization,” Gaines began. "So if you were to dig up a human, two humans, in 100 years from now, both man and woman, could you tell the difference, strictly off of bones?”
"No," the man responded.
.@Riley_Gaines_ to anthropologist: "If you were to dig up… 2 humans… 100 years from now, both man and woman, could you tell the difference, strictly off of bones?"
— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) March 30, 2023
"No."
*CHAOS*
"I'm not sure why I'm being laughed at if I'm the expert in the room. ... I have a PhD!" pic.twitter.com/YYW76ISevI
Aaaaand cue the laughter.
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Deciding to dig his hole even deeper, the man questioned why anyone would be laughing at him, firing off, “I’m not sure why I’m being laughed at if I’m the expert in the room."
"Have any of you been to archaeological sites? Have any of you studied biological anthropology? I’m just saying, I’ve got over 150 years of data. I’m just curious as to why I’m being laughed at," he went on, adding, "I have a Ph.D."
Which would be the cause of the laughter, moron.
Now, perhaps we should give this poor fool the benefit of the doubt and assume he really is just that stupid, regardless of how many framed degrees he may or may not have hanging on his wall. But the far more likely explanation is that he knows full well he's lying, trying to twist irrefutable scientific fact to fit a narrative he so desperately wants us all to believe.
Too bad none of that changes simple truth - nor does it keep him from looking like an idiot.