Look, Ed, it’s a good round-up of links. But I’ve now spent an hour on this and there’s still more to investigate. This theft of my time is actual violence. Also, thanks 🙏
I thought Helen Andrews's piece - which was not really "on fertility" - was underwhelming boilerplate. It made me wonder whether she had any experience of being a mother at any socioeconomic level. According to what I could learn using Google, the answer is no. She seems to be in her mid-30s, and she was married when she was featured in an Australian article five years ago. Don't know about now.
There nothing wrong with a person's writing about topics of which she has, as far as one can tell, no personal experience. I write about wild animals even though I don't get out much. However, I think it would have been more honest if she had informed the audience that she did not, personally, know what she was talking about.
“I’m not filled with my usual cheery optimism.” 🤣🤣🤣
Uh you were kind of lucky in that it looks like they cancelled The Simpsons around the time it started to become unwatchable.
Look, Ed, it’s a good round-up of links. But I’ve now spent an hour on this and there’s still more to investigate. This theft of my time is actual violence. Also, thanks 🙏
Apologies for not responding yesterday, I was travelling all day
I thought Helen Andrews's piece - which was not really "on fertility" - was underwhelming boilerplate. It made me wonder whether she had any experience of being a mother at any socioeconomic level. According to what I could learn using Google, the answer is no. She seems to be in her mid-30s, and she was married when she was featured in an Australian article five years ago. Don't know about now.
There nothing wrong with a person's writing about topics of which she has, as far as one can tell, no personal experience. I write about wild animals even though I don't get out much. However, I think it would have been more honest if she had informed the audience that she did not, personally, know what she was talking about.
Please stay away from Hanania, he is a fan of Chinese authoritarianism and ignores the crimes of that regime.