Ok, so I read some of the articles in the Journal of Controversial Ideas. Some notes: 1) The logo is terrible. 2) The articles are terrible 3) Poorly written, poorly structured, imagined arguments, lazy scholarship. 4) And boring. 5) that is all.
Take this one: Make up a term - 'Cognitive Creationism' - define it to mean something that at best, a tiny, largely ignored fringe think is roughly right, cite non-scholarly work + waffle + quote-mine = CONTROVERSIAL. My arse. bit.ly/3gx0lJz
The only question is which of the race wienies wrote it, but wasn't brave enough to put their name to it.
The race wienie circlejerk is all in there. Place your bets.
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This is not a great look. I'm sure there is more to the book, but this report springs to eternal trap of simplistic single ideas that 'make us human' where evidence is slight.
I would suggest reading Transcendence by @WanderingGaia, Kindred by @LeMoustier, or the Book of Humans by me, which avoid these traps.
Well this is interesting. London mayoral candidate and former actor Laurence Fox has adopted the Glass of Milk emoji in his twitter handle. This is commonly used by White Supremacists in a misplaced attempt to indicate racial purity via lactase persistence.
Here's another example from Richard Spencer, described by wikipedia as an 'American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and white supremacist'.
I don't know whether this is Fox's intention or not, but this is a well known code used by White Supremacists.
This myth is asserted again and again, and yet it is clearly untrue, as the simplest of googling shows. The Twitter discourse is also brimming with these topics, but mostly it’s ignorant badgerspunk nonsense by look-at-me pub bores loudly asserting their silencing.
I have written a book about race science and am writing a book about eugenics, and am permanently overwhelmed by historical and current academic papers on both subjects.
CRISPR gene editing for intelligence. I am writing about this idea in my new book on eugenics, which right wing provocateurs seems to be chuntering about these days. Some brief, practical thoughts:
Set aside the ethical issues, and just focus on the scientific and legal for now.
Legally, germline editing in humans is internationally prohibited in human embryos that can come to term (14 days post fertilisation is typical and heavily regulated limit).
(Mitochondrial replacement gene therapy is one exception, though this is not gene editing so much as replacing a whole chromosome.)
'There is a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to the slave period not only being about profit and suffering but how culturally African people transformed themselves into a re-modelled African/Britain.'
It doesn't really make grammatical sense. What new story? The Caribbean experience of what? Being shackled and beaten? How did that speak to how 'culturally African' people transforming themselves?
What does this mean?? What remodelled African/Britain? How do enslaved people transform themselves into a country/continent? This is fucking nonsense.