Science Matters: The Genetics of Wildlife Conservation

[@r.b.4611]

Thanks. This is a great youtube channel.

[@dirk0389]

He couldnt care less about the tree mice... nice... Up until that point this guy impressed me.

[@Instinct245]

lovely

[@StephanieLisaTara]

HAIKU I hatch! Crawl! And swim! I love my life, except for... People. Dont hurt me! -An Endangered Green Sea Turtle

[@emmmjf]

@hooligan0420 Hmmmm, yes, I tried to see it that way too - but I really don't think that's what he was saying - I think if he was actually making such a thought out point he would have spelled it out right? And he wouldn't have said, and here I quote verbatim "..lets be sexist...".The idea you are talking about wouldn't be considered sexist by someone making it. I think he's just exercising that dumb, knee jerk backlash against all things "PC". It's a shame is all.

[@emmmjf]

'Let's be sexist"? What a shame he thinks like that. I wonder why he specifically said that? Not just a slip up, or the un-PC habit that we can forgive from someone who is part of the aging generation - he deliberately says "let's be sexist". Why David? I'm a woman, and I work on a PhD project at the moment that is in large part concerned with the conservation genetics of some snake species. I was happy to see this talk on you tube. However, I find myself totally excluded by this stupid opener.

[@emmmjf]

@hooligan0420 meh, Sexism and other types of bigotry are actually fairly detrimental to science - Darwin had problems in his formulation of sex relations in evolutionary theory + quite a few of his ideas that we see today as a bit off the mark can be kind of excused by saying - well, for his time...Which is fine, but also true. Anyway claiming that people who notice things like this are not relaxed is just stupid and boring, I mean - yeah, conservatives are the most relaxed people! pffft