V. Cheney- Ads and dis's of Castration

[lister02 (imported)]

I ordered this book and I was wondering if it is good information or misinformation?

If you have read it where do you find it informative and where not?

[kristoff]

I ordered this book and I was wondering if it is good information or misinformation?

If you have read it where do you find it informative and where not?

It is a piece of crap, written on the order of a 9th grade report. Waste of time and money.

[JesusA (imported)]

The good sister is being awfully hard on Vic Cheney. I would certainly be gentler. Cheney, like most junior high and many high school kids, believed that anything that made it into print – was available in black and white in a printed book – MUST be true. He was absolutely uncritical of his sources, many of which are excellent and many of which are just plain wrong. It can be a fun read; just don't believe everything you read in it.

He was enthusiastic and very determined to discover everything that had ever been published on his subject. I found Cheney's bibliography very useful, though I also checked on the credentials of his sources and cross-checked the information they gave.

The Kinsey Institute now has his personal library and is in the process of cataloging it. I plan to spend some time exploring it when I'm in Bloomington in October.

[janekane (imported)]

Upon reading portions of V. Cheney's book which are accessible on Amazon.com, I have an inclination to concur with Jesus, though I have scant data. That of V. Cheney's writings which I was able to read prod me to the hunch that he was not an infallible, flawlessly trained, research scholar. But then, who is?

His bibliography section might be quite useful to me. When I can fit his book into my budget, I expect to add it to my library. I already read Michael Shermer's column in Scientific American. As a skeptic, I am especially skeptical of skepticism itself.

For myself, it is sufficient that I be who I am, doing what I am able to do.

[talula]

tal >> Vic Cheney Pfft.

[janekane (imported)]

If, as my "real life experience" suggests to me, human error is the norm, and accurate understanding is profoundly abnormal (from a frequentist statistical standpoint), then most of what matters significantly to people surely is of human error?

Therefore, I concur with talula no less than with Jesus...

Now, what have I done?

[lister02 (imported)]

I picked up the book and checked it out. Basically he pretty much focuses on sex offenders and their ads and disses. Not very helpful for the normal man who wants to be a eunuch for other reasons.

[SplitDik (imported)]

My problem with Cheney is it is really hard to understand where he's coming from, so I'm suspicious of what his agenda is. I personally think he has a fetish for castration, and likes trying to convince others to be castrated. I feel that sort of bias.

I mean it is one thing to be like Jesus and try to help people cope with castration, or to help people accept assexuals and eunuchs, but Cheney really seems to be advocating for castration. That bias really puts me off of him.