[richbell]

I thought you were being hyperbolic but the linked article and study does seem to miss the forest for the trees.

Surely it's possible to acknowledge the flaws of a measure without devolving into ideological and cultural warfare?

> In addition, they argued that the design of the 2017 study relied on racist and colonial hierarchies and assumptions because it categorized data as “Western” sperm counts or “Other” sperm counts.

> Further, the claims of decline were based on a “species optimum” of Anglophone developed nations of the 1970s, which the researchers argued was scientifically unsound. The GenderSci Lab team warned that this kind of Eurocentric focus has been used by alt-right, white supremacist, and men’s rights activists to argue that the health and fertility of men in Western nations is being threatened, particularly by feminist and anti-racist movements.

[marcus0x62]

> Surely it's possible to acknowledge the flaws of a measure without devolving into ideological and cultural warfare?

When a professor of linguistics decides it is appropriate to write a paper criticizing a study about falling sperm counts, I don’t think that is a safe bet.

[cal5k]

Yikes. What the heck is going on in academia.

[Der_Einzige]

Related, men are mass opting out of academia. It's so bad now that they have to have affirmative action for men.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-...