This is interesting. Here’s a new “gender” wrinkle to biocentrism, as outlined in wikipedia:
Biocentrism as a term has also recently gained prominence in the discussion of transgender and transsexual rights. Biocentrism in that case refers to the widely-held belief that a person who was born as a male or a female is more “real” and more valid than the individual who has become man or woman through hormonal, surgical, and cosmetic means.[13] It is this biocentric belief that continues to fuel the debate over the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’s policy to only allow women-born, women-identified women. Transwomen are actively excluded because they are not viewed as “real women”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocentrism
BTW – for all the carping over Dr. Lanza’s thesis in the comments above, no one has advanced a more reasonable explanation for the measurement problem posed by Selection Bias. Thus Occam’s Razor remains in effect, at least for me.
Also, IMO, the sheer fury and emotionalism displayed by Dr. Lanza’s detractors in their rushed attempt to bury him as
1. inexpert,
2. unoriginal, or
3. “hardly worth debunking”,
…is itself an smoking-gun expression of professional jealousy, turf warfare, and the enforced orthodoxies present among establishment Scientists.
