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18 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I promised myself that I wasn't going to do it, but I'm going to aren't I. I hate myself. Sigh.
#SnyderCut
Oh god it's so boring already. I miss WandaVision.

And Aquaman totally just revealed Batman's secret identity.
I give up. I'm bored. And why is it 4:3? My eyes aren't 4:3.

I'm going to look at transcripts of the Nuremberg trials. Actually true.
It's only 4 hours cos there are so many slow motion whimsical song moments.

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16 Mar
Huh. @jordanbpeterson guessing that medicine kills more people than it cures, @BretWeinstein claiming that the evidence for coronavirus being human-made is mounting.

The most casual, cursory glance at the evidence would show these are both balls.

But no, grifters gotta grift.
@jordanbpeterson @BretWeinstein Here are some NIH resources on the SARS-CoV-2 genome, which shows concordance with 7 other coronaviruses that were zoonotic in origin
bit.ly/2znh7Yq
@jordanbpeterson @BretWeinstein Here's a study that shows the common ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 and RaGT13, a bat sarbecovirus that diverged in the last 80 years or so
go.nature.com/2OHun1F
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14 Mar
I said something stupid on the @bbcbigquestions this morning. When I mentioned that Mary’s virginity was a medieval invention, I was actually thinking of the Immaculate Conception. Mary’s perpetual virginity was much earlier, 3rdC onwards (though not Biblical). @NickyAACampbell
I was trying to be clever and as a result was actually stoopid and wrong. Mary’s virginity is stated in Matthew and Luke, but it is later that the doctrine emerges that she is a virgin before during and after the birth of Christ.
The Immaculate Conception of course is a totally different idea, that Mary herself was conceived free from Original Sin. That is a medieval dogma, but totally distinct from her perpetual virginity. Thanks to @Cal_Thinks for calling me out.
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12 Mar
Correct
This is not even a contestable fact. It’s demonstrably true. Human classification sits at the roots of the emergence of science in the 18th C, and in all cases it was both hierarchical and in service of the political ideology of European expansion, colonialism and subjugation.
As @rmathematicus says
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7 Mar
I’ll tell you something that is not a social construct. Fondue.

Pray for us.
Update
I don’t feel good. Is fondue even food? My tongue, why can I feel my tongue
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7 Mar
Science is a social construct.

Science is a way of knowing, employing a set of methods that are agreed and performed by people. Science does not exist outside of this framework, even with eloquent flourish.

Ergo, science is a social construct.
The idea of social constructs has for some become synonymous with postmodern, or Frankfurt School bullshittery. I am unsure if RD is doing this here, but it’s unfortunate. Time, money, race are all social constructs, which are all important *because* they are socially constructed
Science is a way of knowing, and it is not possible to have a way of knowing without a human mind. Science only exists as a social construct.
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1 Mar
A quick note of thanks. #HowToArgueWithARacist is at number 2 in the Times paperback charts. I'm very proud to be alongside friends @CCriadoPerez @Philippa_Perry and Deborah Orr, whom we miss terribly.
[I've no idea what that book is at 1, but I do not like the title at all]
I'm proud of this book, and delighted that it has found an audience, not least with it being selected as @Waterstones book of the month.
bit.ly/370vcsj
Here's a line which I think is important - though I borrowed it from Helen Lewis, who borrowed it from someone else.
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