Facebook Deletes Account of Famous Biologist, Richard Dawkins, After He Posted Scientific Fact about Chromosomes … on Twitter
Richard Dawkins is famed for his work on evolutionary biology, but apparently his facts don’t support the Facebook narrative.
One of the world’s leading scientists is Richard Dawkins. He is an award-winning evolutionary biologist and zoologist who has taught at esteemed institutions such as Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley.
He is perhaps best known for his book, The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centred view of evolution that ultimately led to the term becoming a thing.
You would think that Dawkins would be a darling of progressives, as he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design and is a vocal atheist.
However, Dawkins apparently verbalized a heresy so awful that Facebook immediately deleted his Facebook account.
Just look to how Facebook dealt with Richard Dawkins for confirmation https://t.co/BMyZ07JfIN pic.twitter.com/NcSidE4WaD
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 10, 2024
My Facebook page has been deleted for no apparent reason, and we have not received a response through @meta or @facebook for a resolution. https://t.co/PX40tmn0Ah
Was it something I said?— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 2, 2024
While I can’t find a personal Facebook account for Dawkins, I did located one for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, which still seems intact.
I can attest to the heavy-hand of Facebook when it comes to the subject of transsexuals. I have a good friend, who I have partnered with on several history-oriented projects, who made an off-head quip on the subject. His account, which included a military history page with thousands of followers and helped support his professional career, was ionized promptly.
But what is even more disturbing, it appears Dawkins was judged for remarks he made on another platform.
Dawkins announced on Saturday that his account was deleted after he commented on the participation of genetically male athletes in the Paris Olympics, referencing Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. In a post on X, Musk expressed his disapproval of Meta’s content moderation policies, stating, “Facebook, aka ‘Meta,’ can never be trusted.”
Dawkins argued against policies that allow male athletes to compete in female categories, which he believes undermines fairness in sports. He clarified that his comments were made on X, not Facebook, yet it was his Facebook account that was deleted.
Facebook aka “Meta” can never be trusted https://t.co/y1NtbRoqpI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 10, 2024
There have been so many disturbing moments at the 2024 Olympics that if Facebook deleted every account that mocked them, especially over the two testosterone-infused hulks battering females during “boxing,” it would have few users.
But there is an upside for Dawkins. People are taking a look at his X-account, which is loaded with gems.
— Anti-Terran (@EndofTellus) August 8, 2024
Dawkins is as unhappy with current British leadership.
The first-past-the post electoral system we have in Britain is appallingly undemocratic, in different way from USA. Huge numbers of people are effectively disenfranchised, or forced unwillingly into tactical voting. Please join Electoral Reform Society.https://t.co/ttT6TTWfst
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 9, 2024
Of course, because he is British, he doesn’t get the nuances of the American system of government.
Notice these dorks never mention Vermont. Why does Delaware get two Senators? Shitlibs don’t care about process, only outcomes. You fucked over your own country, traitor, shut the fuck up about mine.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 9, 2024
Dawkins will soon be touring North America, in what he refers to as his “swan song”.
I shall be spending the whole of September, and the first week of October, in North America, speaking in ten different cities from Dallas to Vancouver. I am 83 years old, and travel is more irksome than it was. The maxim, “Quit while you’re ahead” has recently received a welcome…
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 6, 2024
Sadly, this is now an era when a famous biologist cannot simply point out a biological fact without being silenced.
However, real facts remain whether the narrative-makers approve of them or not.
I can’t believe I fought for 16 years for female athletes to train free from abuse and now I have to fight for women’s sports to be for women. #XX pic.twitter.com/RiJqhfbCB5
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) August 7, 2024
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They do the same with those who study IQ.
The thing with IQ is that at least half the people fall on the left side.
Heh, heh!!
And to fiction writers who think for themselves …
Whenever my progressive friends point out that in the Senate Wyoming can cancel out California, I point out that Rhode Island cancels out Texas and that Delaware cancels out Florida. They never respond well to that…
Yeah I’ve had the same reaction to that one.
Those who criticize the way our government was set up show how little history they know and how scant their knowledge is of our electoral system. One reason it was set up like it is giving the smaller states like my home state of Vermont outsized influence equal to that of a much larger state like California is that they saw what can happen when an overpowering entity like Great Britain can force it’s will on people that didn’t like or want it.
Not “outsized influence,” rather “equal representation” to each State as nominally-sovereign geo-political entities. The problem is that the scheme was upset by the direct election of Senators, so that both chambers of Congress now represent the same constituents and the States have been denied their “equal protection” in the Senate.
Really, this isn’t that difficult. Delete your facebook account. There’s nothing of any value in submitting to the whims of idiots.
I rarely use Facebook, just for locating wayward dogs and Marketplace.
Or load it with tons of useless photos and videos data which you share with almost no one.
I did it in 2016 after six months.
Deleted mine probably 2007 or 08. Was a waste of time with that stupid wall and everyone wanting to “friend” them. And then getting notifications all the time.
Finally had enough and dumped it.
The reality is that it’s not that easy as Facebook has worked its way in to every day life through becoming a tool for organising within families, communities, sports groups etc.
So it’s not just as simple as deleting your account any more. But because Facebook has become an almost important part of life there absolutely SHOULD be protections put in place so that some faceless left wing group can just excommunicate anyone based solely on feelings.
“So it’s not just as simple as deleting your account any more”
Sure it is
It really isn’t. You leaving facebook doesnt make facebook a less Chinese social credit scoring system. You leaving only reinforces their belief that what they are doing to ensure that only one kind of person uses the platform (those that confirm to what ever they desire to be true) is the correct course of action for them to be undertaking.
Using it but not using it expensive. So for instance loading hours of video and sharing it with 3 people—- is expensive. Housing gigs of photos and sharing with 3 people is also expensive.
Will they eventually be like MSFT and try and chisel you for the data?
Sitting on there for hours scrolling daily— and you are a money maker. Go there to look up info or using them as a source of news totally empowers them.
This is why guntubers and others really need to bring cred to some other platform. Sad that Rumble hasn’t done better on gaining eyeballs.
Your first instinct is to retreat.
https://www.facebook.com/richarddawkinsbooks/
It’s still there. Perhaps Facebook restored it.
I did a deep dive for it on Facebook before the post, as I noted in the article. And Dawkins himself noted it was deleted. I suspect it was restored in the wake of the news spreading on social media.
Exactly
I don’t have any social accounts , I deleted them like 10 years ago when a black male threatened me over nothing really, he said, this was Twitter, that he already had my personal info, had hacked and told me to “watch out”
Figured it wasn’t worth anything. Really to keep. I was always laughing as my Twitter feed grew because I rarely posted anything great and really was just liking others comments
And FB, at first it was pictures of meals, tons of those, everyone’s kids and grandkids, not a good thing to post in the end, wankers and all, and then the political crap started, boy, those sweet midwestern farm kids really know how to curse and threaten you… just because you didn’t want to pay for their 250,000$ college loan at Madison
So I left, and I don’t miss it
I guess if you make big bucks and have hundreds of thousands of followers ( why, I ask, but then The Kardashians are billionaires, what a stupid society)
The reptilian-minded Dawkins ushered in, and husbanded, the poisonous political weed we know as Woke, and now its grasping vine is choking him like a boa constrictor.
His political-science career ends in evolutionary burp.
The wokiesta leftists are anything but tolerant of opposing views. It is clear that outside X, Rumble and occasionally Spotify that the large platforms demand compliance with a monolithic woke worldview. When FB nukes Dawkins account b/c he had the audacity to offer his opinion using biological facts instead of cleaning up kiddie porn and paedophile accounts … the priorities of FB are very clearly revealed.
In previous gigs- I reviewed outsourced contracts for compliance and risk violations at one of the largest and wokes companies you use every day. By compliance – I mean co employment. There’s maybe 1000 0people in the world who know what means- but it means I reviewed thousands of contracts and had to understand what they do.
It was not at Meta- but I know how they outsource this type of activity. I am 99% certain American’s on these platforms are actually being censored by $10/hr 20-something Indians in Bangalore who have the most warped world view that comes largely from their own socialist hell scape and from Silicon Valley.
I can recall one contract in particular which choose which news stories would appear on feeds. If you want to know- see the above paragraph.
my kingdom for an edit’s button.
In my day job I deal with a vendor who has “their own process” for determining which grocery store items are regulated alcoholic beverages. The result is every once in a while they cancel orders because there’s no age-check indicated for people buying root beer.
I’ve long suspected they outsource their “process” to India.
“US Senate election: Single voter in Wyoming wields more influence than 65 Californians”
It’s called “equity”….and he also had no idea about why the Senate was created. When representing states… all are equal.
The evil forces can only censor the truth for so long. It eventually burns through the firewalls.
Turns out Facebook didn’t delete it. It was hacked and restored.
Source?
Google “every time we censor a fact that supports conservatism, it’s ‘just a mistake.'”
“Hacked” = Deleted by easily offended Facebook employee with too much power.
Restored = That person didn’t realize who they deleted and so we had to rescue ourselves.
A certain Supreme Court nominee was asked if she knew what a woman was, and she said, ask a biologist. Here’s a biologist telling you, and the wokerati promptly cancels him. Reminds me of Orwell’s 1984.
Excellent observation!
The man married Romanadvoratrelundar, for heaven’s sake. That used up his entire life’s share of good luck.
Mrs Dawkins is the better actoress but my oh my Romana#1 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/137711701085286025/
The vile leftists and Dhimmi-crats engage in brazen censorship for two reasons.
The first is the exercise of power, to stifle dissenting views and opinions that are deemed to be allegedly heterodox and insufficiently respectful of leftist/Dhimmi-crat/Islamofascist orthodoxies.
The second reason is because they know damn well that their policy stances are destructive and immoral, and, can’t be defended and rationalized on the merits. Censoring the opposition, or, the expression of mere criticism or scrutiny, is far easier than engaging in a losing argument.
Live not by lies Alexander Solzhenitsyn told humanity
It’s about Narrative! All the time, over everything.
Same old zuckertool. Is anybody surprised?
Ok, I am not a grammar N@z1 by any means, but this particular affectation drives me nuts.
I sincerely hope it was a typo and not intentional but either way, reading it causes my brain to hiccough and stutter for a good two seconds while I mentally convert the abomination into proper English:
“an heresy”
Seriously? I continually have to endure academics with low self esteem utilizing the incorrect article before the word “historic” but now you have to do it with “heresy” as well?
OK, in your defense, I don’t know where you’re from. Maybe you were born and raised in one of the few places that drop the “aitch” sound at the beginning of such words; in which case you can be forgiven for using the “an” article, but I somehow doubt it. If you are from such a place and this usage is correct for you, please let me know and I’ll humbly apologize.
If, however, you are a native American speaker: I’d think as a professional writer you’d know better.
Pro-tip: Using incorrect English to appear more intellectual or “academic” actually just causes you to appear more illiterate.
Oh…otherwise, great article.
I have wondered what happened to all the atheist crusaders when the transgendered movement became popular. It seemed like they fell silent just when we could actually work with their prayer to ‘TRUST THE SCIENCE.’ <- That is an unscientific maxim of course, but we can work with the idea.
I thought Dawkins etc just kept studiously silent to keep their tenure privilege. Now, perhaps they were talking but the media just stopped reporting on them.