Sometimes, people don’t do themselves any favours. I just saw this in the news feeds, and I had to check the date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st.
For those who don’t know, there has been a big kerfuffle in Saudi Arabia over a ban on women driving. Unfortunately – for SA, anyway – the women over there have not taken to this edict very well and there are all kinds of protests and deliberate flauntings of the ban taking place. So, in a desperate attempt to try and “win” the argument that would make any 5-year old involved in a schoolyard argument proud, Sheikh Salah al-Luhaydan has come out with the following:
…[driving] could have a reverse physiological impact. Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees…
What a plonker! And he is allegedly “a psychologist”, which says a hell of a lot about that branch of study if he can come out with nonsense like this. It’s straight out of the Middle Ages.
Why do religious groups do this to themselves? They must really believe what they write – in spite of the whole weight of science and factual information which proves them wrong – otherwise they wouldn’t do it. It’s frightening, and no wonder some of the things happening in the world these days do happen.