Antisocial Capybara
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The scientific community failed when it allowed Lynn and others to promulgate obviously shoddy national-IQ “science” without substantial backlash. Lynn was biased by his admitted racist aspirations. His errors and lies are now malignant with our culture, and being weaponized by the right.
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The scientific community failed when it allowed Lynn and others to promulgate obviously shoddy national-IQ “science” without substantial backlash. Lynn was biased by his admitted racist aspirations. His errors and lies are now malignant with our culture, and being weaponized by the right.
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Not to be alarmist or dramatic but the VP and probably half the inner circle of this admin thinks the average IQ of Africans and countries from the global south is < 70 because a white supremacist made a fraudulent database 40 years ago. Those are dots I don’t want to see connected
We're not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities because it violates the 8th amendment. The Supreme Court will hear a case where Alabama argues that Intellectual disability when it comes to death penalty should only be decided only by IQ tests.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Alabama wants to lower the bar for executing disabled people—if SCOTUS lets it
The case law is clear: There's more to intellectual disability than IQ tests. Will Trump's justices care?
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Not to be alarmist or dramatic but the VP and probably half the inner circle of this admin thinks the average IQ of Africans and countries from the global south is < 70 because a white supremacist made a fraudulent database 40 years ago. Those are dots I don’t want to see connected
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1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
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There is no such thing as a ‘perfect baby’ because it is a human being and not a custom-tailored suit you sickos
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There is no such thing as a ‘perfect baby’ because it is a human being and not a custom-tailored suit you sickos
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"Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics" is a particularly important essay given the recent spate of human genetic engineering startups...
🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics
This article explores the legacy of eugenics and its harmful impact on Indigenous peoples of North America. It examines how genetics research historically
academic.oup.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics" is a particularly important essay given the recent spate of human genetic engineering startups...
🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
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Things you could not get me to listen to for a million dollars
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Things you could not get me to listen to for a million dollars
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On a roll with papers this week. PNAS paper with @michealdebarra.bsky.social giving some evidence to the idea that people turn to the supernatural because of uncertainty about causal processes. BONUS of curing whooping cough with donkeys and warts with snails 🐌
1/ 🧵 New PNAS paper by CCE’s @michealdebarra.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social with Angel V Jiménez and Nachita Rosun🎉
📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures?
🧪🏺
#evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution
📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures?
🧪🏺
#evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
On a roll with papers this week. PNAS paper with @michealdebarra.bsky.social giving some evidence to the idea that people turn to the supernatural because of uncertainty about causal processes. BONUS of curing whooping cough with donkeys and warts with snails 🐌
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Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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The take-home message when I give talks about race science: “for bad science to persist, you need (1) a core of ethically or methodologically compromised people who are willing to fabricate data or create misleading evidence & (2) a larger group of people who are willing to promote these ideas”
Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The take-home message when I give talks about race science: “for bad science to persist, you need (1) a core of ethically or methodologically compromised people who are willing to fabricate data or create misleading evidence & (2) a larger group of people who are willing to promote these ideas”
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“examines how eugenics has resurfaced as a blueprint for contemporary ‘tech-utopian’ & nationalist projects in the West….tech capitalists & conservative elites deploy eugenic logic as ‘common sense’ solutions to social challenges such as climate change, ‘gender ideology’ & fears of depopulation”
Building the ‘Fitter’ Future: Eugenics, Tech Capitalism, and the Politics of Existential Risk
Abstract. The appointment of Elon Musk as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exemplifies the unprecedented and troubling
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“examines how eugenics has resurfaced as a blueprint for contemporary ‘tech-utopian’ & nationalist projects in the West….tech capitalists & conservative elites deploy eugenic logic as ‘common sense’ solutions to social challenges such as climate change, ‘gender ideology’ & fears of depopulation”
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If you’ve never heard of the “arctic origins of East Asian psychology” theory it’s because it was made up whole cloth by “David Sun”, some failed grad school applicant who somehow got one paper about it published and otherwise just posts lewd AI anime art about his theory on Twitter
The influence of race science is spreading in the evolutionary behavioural sciences. This new paper means members of a race science network have now been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Behavioral Science, Evolutionary Psychology & Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If you’ve never heard of the “arctic origins of East Asian psychology” theory it’s because it was made up whole cloth by “David Sun”, some failed grad school applicant who somehow got one paper about it published and otherwise just posts lewd AI anime art about his theory on Twitter
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I'm particularly proud of the section on psychological life-history research tradition, where we trace its history not to evolutionary biology and ecology and their decades of theory and modeling, but to the baseless abberation initiated by JP Rushton. This distinction is not widely known enough. 8/
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm particularly proud of the section on psychological life-history research tradition, where we trace its history not to evolutionary biology and ecology and their decades of theory and modeling, but to the baseless abberation initiated by JP Rushton. This distinction is not widely known enough. 8/
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“Buying more stuff isn’t prosperity”
Pure reactionary nostalgia paired with some kind of weird anti-modernism. What could “affordability” possibly mean if making stuff cheaper doesn’t matter?
Pure reactionary nostalgia paired with some kind of weird anti-modernism. What could “affordability” possibly mean if making stuff cheaper doesn’t matter?
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Buying more stuff isn’t prosperity”
Pure reactionary nostalgia paired with some kind of weird anti-modernism. What could “affordability” possibly mean if making stuff cheaper doesn’t matter?
Pure reactionary nostalgia paired with some kind of weird anti-modernism. What could “affordability” possibly mean if making stuff cheaper doesn’t matter?
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Rutherford defended eugenics before. forbetterscience.com/2020/06/03/i...
I am not a racist but…
Some geneticists have very unorthodox ideas. These might sound like racism or eugenics to simple folks, but it is really high science. UK Biobank is apparently on board.
forbetterscience.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Rutherford defended eugenics before. forbetterscience.com/2020/06/03/i...
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It's interesting that as a philosopher of bioethics Singer is completely disinterested in the psychological effect of segregation & exclusion on trans women. It illustrates a problem that does exist in philosophy as in the rest of society - viewing us as an 'issue', not equal human beings.
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It's interesting that as a philosopher of bioethics Singer is completely disinterested in the psychological effect of segregation & exclusion on trans women. It illustrates a problem that does exist in philosophy as in the rest of society - viewing us as an 'issue', not equal human beings.
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7) We don't own the data we collect. Communities do. It is our responsibility to steward these in collaboration with communities.
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
7) We don't own the data we collect. Communities do. It is our responsibility to steward these in collaboration with communities.
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A potent and plain-spoken defence of DEI in science - from the experts. Representation *matters*.
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A potent and plain-spoken defence of DEI in science - from the experts. Representation *matters*.
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Adding to the already extremely heightened anti Muslim sentiment, Bec of NYCs mayoral election...
Gad Saad says this to his 1.1 million followers. Truly vile man.
Gad Saad says this to his 1.1 million followers. Truly vile man.
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Adding to the already extremely heightened anti Muslim sentiment, Bec of NYCs mayoral election...
Gad Saad says this to his 1.1 million followers. Truly vile man.
Gad Saad says this to his 1.1 million followers. Truly vile man.
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The conflation of academic freedom with free speech has predictable consequences. A Cambridge academic who made scientifically indefensible claims has had complaints against him dismissed on the grounds that his claims were "lawful free speech". This doesn't end well for science.
Uni clears don accused of ‘abhorrent racism’
The University's internal investigation launched last year has dismissed all complaints against Nathan Cofnas, and found his ideas 'represented lawful free speech'
www.varsity.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The conflation of academic freedom with free speech has predictable consequences. A Cambridge academic who made scientifically indefensible claims has had complaints against him dismissed on the grounds that his claims were "lawful free speech". This doesn't end well for science.
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a serious, ethical media industry could leverage modern op/ed sections to amplify revolutionary, thought-provoking, under-platformed ideas
instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable
instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
a serious, ethical media industry could leverage modern op/ed sections to amplify revolutionary, thought-provoking, under-platformed ideas
instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable
instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable
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The very racist man he's quoting - Emil Kirkegaard - also has some "liberal" friends: www.pinkerite.com/2025/06/emil...
Emil Kirkegaard, Steven Pinker, Maarten Boudry and the racist Heterodox Conference
Whee! We're such jolly racists! ----------------------------------------------------- So according to an article in DeWereldMorgen, the " fr...
www.pinkerite.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The very racist man he's quoting - Emil Kirkegaard - also has some "liberal" friends: www.pinkerite.com/2025/06/emil...