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Dr Adam Rutherford Profile picture
@AdamRutherford
Jan 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Oh man, I know I bang on about him, but this is just so moronic it's fruity batshit. Peterson has no idea what he's saying. His brain is blancmange. Not the slightest clue about what he's preaching about.
A million climate scientists cry out in despair.

Have I got this all wrong? I'm doubting my sanity here. This is bizarro world stuff. . He speaks and it's just jibber jabber, words have no meaning anymore. AND PEOPLE LISTEN.
Unchallenged too. Not even a whisper of ‘are you totally sure about this? Models are based on real world data, absolutely metric shittonnes of it, processed through billions of permutations, and they make predictions that match real world observations. That’s just all wrong?’
‘… cos that seems like a pretty big claim from someone who has literally no expertise in either climate science or data modelling.’

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May 6
A short thread on grammar, as the fewer/less crowd are outnabout. I used to really care until I started working regularly on @BBCRadio4, where I discovered that the most frequent complaints were from male grammar pedants.
They typically moaned about decimate, fewer/less, octopus and bacterium/bacteria. The thing about grammar pedants is that they’re not pedantic enough, and their corrections were often erroneous - stuff that is easy to Google - and born of doctrinaire oneupmanship.
And so I revised my position to be a descriptivist. Not everyone was taught the ‘correct’ form of grammar, which obviously, is entirely made up. The only thing that matters is effectiveness of communication. @OliverKamm is my Obi Wan on this matter.
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Feb 18
I’ve had some fun with the race wienies today - it’s almost as if I could write a book on how to argue with a racist. Anyway, here’s some of the highlights:
1) the credentialists. How can it be that I have a job in one of the best genetics departments on Earth, and the BBC?? 😘

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2) ‘you’re a disingenuous retard’
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3) ‘I understand population genetics cos I have eyes’. Wish I’d known it was that easy before spending all that time learning it
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Dec 15, 2023
I read a lot of books, and here are my non-fiction books of the year, just in time for presents, in no particular order.
1: Toxic by Sarah Ditum. Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Janet, Amy. These early-noughties mononym women who stood charged with being women at the juncture between the old media and the new. Will make you sad, angry and baffled. Image
2: Ultra-Processed People by @DoctorChrisVT revelations about an industrial complex that underlies so much of the health problems humankind faces, because our lives are flooded by food that is not food. Image
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Aug 4, 2023
I went to see Oppenheimer. It is hard to imagine a film that I disliked more intensely. Apart from Tenet.

Positives: acting is fabulous, cinematography beautiful, music a bit overbearing but massive.
Negatives <deep breath>
* learn to write dialogue. People don’t speak like that. Every sentence is designed to elicit a zinger or exposition point in response.
* the editing is frenetic. Intercutting from different locations, colour/black and white, mad angles that make no sense.
The whole film is a montage.
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Jun 9, 2023
Oh come on, don't make me do this, please. The sun is shining, and it's a nice da... MALE SEA OTTERS DROWN FEMALES AND USE THEIR CARCASSES FOR SEX UNTIL THE FALL APART. DON'T BE FOOLED, THEY ARE ABSOLUTE FURRY ARSEHOLES.

Carry on.
Oh screw it.

Bottlenose dolphins form gangs and kidnap teenage female dolphins to sexually assault.
Fuck you Flipper.
Adelie Penguins masturbate openly, engage in transactional sex, and sometimes shag dead penguins.

Didn't see that with Morgan Freeman voice over.
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May 23, 2023
🚨 Genetics is PROBABILISITIC, not deterministic 🚨 This is a fundamental aspect of inheritance. The idea that being in possession of a certain version of a gene - an allele - determines a trait is incorrect, and you will fail 1st yr Introduction to Genetics if you write that.
Next: For the most part, the way we understand the influence of certain alleles - e.g. taste preferences - comes from studies in populations, and do not directly or deterministically translate to individuals.
The idea that behaviours are influenced by genetics is neither new nor surprising. EVERYTHING is influenced by both genetics and the environment. And here's where the history is important.
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