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2 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Join me in my new endeavor, Natural Selections, a weekly newsletter about things evolutionary. All the writing is free. Join now to get the next post (Hospitals Should Let the Outside In) direct to your inbox tomorrow morning. Link to follow.
About Natural Selections:
naturalselections.substack.com/about
From the first post: Fact Checkers Aren't Scientists.
From the 2nd post (On Driving SARS-CoV2 Extinct): "We are all in this together. Demonizing others, be they vaccinated or unvaccinated, is not a solution....We can and should all look to our better angels, and move forward with the dignity and resolve that those angels offer us."
"We want access to data and evidence with which to scientifically assess the situation, rather than pre-digested bytes of politically-motivated conclusions that serve to polarize rather than inform."
naturalselections.substack.com/p/on-driving-s…

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29 Jul
Announcing Natural Selections – my brand new newsletter, hosted by Substack.

If it evolved, it’s fair game.
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Join me here for my very first post: Fact Checkers Aren’t Scientists – Too Often, They’re Censors. 2/
naturalselections.substack.com
From hummingbirds to humans, octopi to orchids, vipers to viruses, all of us, and all that we do, are the products of evolution. Natural Selections will explore form and function, behavior and culture, sex and science, all through an evolutionary lens. 3/
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13 Jun
Respectfully, Secretary Reich, you have drunk the Kool-Aid.

Not that it should matter, but I’m a liberal. And, for 15 years, I was a college professor, an educator. I saw first-hand the damage that Critical Race Theory wrought.
At its founding, CRT was indeed interested in “the role that race has played in American politics, policy, and law.” Now, though? It’s a weaponized bludgeon used to move power from one place to another, without doing anything to change the underlying dynamics that got us here.
CRT sounds honorable and important, but instead of teaching actual history, with a diversity of viewpoints, it shuts down conversation, weakens people by assuring them that their true identity is “victim,” and pits us all against one another. It makes us more tribal.
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24 Apr
Dude, please. “GOP supporters believe that rampaging mobs burned and looted major cities”?

I’ve never voted GOP (not that it should matter), and I know—not believe, *know*—that a tiny but rampaging mob continues to do damage in Portland on the regular. [thread 1/11]
Saturday, April 17, downtown PDX. The night before, yahoos set a dumpster & the bathrooms on fire outside the Apple store. Awning is gone, tree is charred.

Burned to the ground? No.
Insane to accommodate this kind of behavior? Yes.
Insane to deny it is happening? Also yes. 2/
New graffiti nearby from the same night. This is the sentiment that you are de facto defending when you claim this isn’t happening, or that all the protest is peaceful, or indeed, that this particular thing has anything to do with protest at all. This is raw, vengeful hate. 3/
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13 Apr
Ignorance, arrogance, and the wielding of credentials to shut down discourse: a triple threat.

When these three characteristics show up in one place, I feel a responsibility to at least slow the spread of misinformation. Here we go. [thread 1/26]
We are all ignorant of some things. Ignorance should be forgiven. 2/
Add arrogance and you have a problem brewing: an undeservedly confident tone that spews garbage will be confusing to some people, people who do not deserve to be confused by the ignorant, arrogant person in their feed. 3/
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2 Apr
@GodflyThe @JenelopeJohnson @maxrenke @SadLittleKobold I don’t tend to do remedial evolution on Twitter. But since you say you are an evolutionary geneticist, I’ll make an exception. I’ll go slow, since you seem to have missed a lot already. Consider it a public service. [thread 1/14]
@GodflyThe @JenelopeJohnson @maxrenke @SadLittleKobold This is an evolutionary tree. Some branches display parts of history that we never inhabited. One of those branches on this tree, for instance, terminates in the taxon called “orangutan”. We were never orangutans. But we were—and still are—apes. As are orangutans. 2/
@GodflyThe @JenelopeJohnson @maxrenke @SadLittleKobold (Tree thinking—really grasping what phylogenetic trees are conveying, and what they are not—takes some time, but turns out to be necessary if you are to grok lineage level thinking, and macroevolutionary concepts like synapomorphy, homology, monophyly, etc.) 3/
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18 Mar
The mainstream narrative on the search for SARS-Cov2 origins reads like the dystopian endgame of a postmodern world. It’s anti-scientific, anti-reason, and anti-human. Humanity can do better, and we must. [thread 1/12]
wsj.com/articles/who-c…
The WHO’s verdict on SARS-CoV2 origins was arrived at by a show of hands, an informal vote in which how individuals voted was visible to all.

Guess what, though. Reality doesn’t care about democratic norms. Reality is what it is, regardless of what people think about it. 2/
“The team members said they didn’t have the mandate, expertise and access to investigate a potential lab leak.”

My god. And then they voted on whether lab leak was a plausible explanation for the origin of SARS-CoV2 in a show of hands in front of their Chinese counterparts. 3/
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