Jean-François Gariépy 🧬 Profile picture
Biologist 🦎 | Author, The Revolutionary Phenotype 🧬 | Host, JFG Tonight 🎥 | Veteran of the Great Twitter Ban War of 2018-2022 🎖️
Jun 3, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
I have some bad news for those who have seen their funds disappear from their Atomic Wallet, they are gone forever.

Thankfully I had an Atomic Wallet but I was keeping it empty. Software wallets (wallets that can be unlocked by password on a device that isn't specialized to hide keys) are all fundamentally flawed.

Any significant sum kept on them is one Trojan horse away from being instantly stolen.
May 25, 2023 17 tweets 4 min read
There is currently a debate on Twitter about a Community Notes that claimed that parents matter in raising a child.

The original tweet claimed that parents do not matter and have little impact on a child.

The "parents don't matter" crowd is misinterpreting the science. 🧵1 The 2 positions go as follows:

1. Parents matter in the raising of a child, as one could intuitively guess.

2. Parents don't matter very much in how a child grows up. Scientific attempts at capturing parental correlations with child outcomes have failed, genes matter most.

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Feb 22, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
If you need to be convinced that psychology and psychiatry are inherently weaponizable political tools of control, you need to look no further than @jordanbpeterson's use of clinical terms to attack his ideological opponents, which include so-called Internet "trolls." 🧵 There is a danger in surfing the thin wave between clinical diagnosis and political finger-pointing as Jordan does: it deprives both sides of legitimacy.

On the one hand, clinical diagnosis is discredited and used as tool while people may be genuinely suffering from these...
Feb 4, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
@Beef__Papa It's a pretty weak case that he makes.

1. "There are environmental effects (early life, placenta)."

As he himself acknowledges later, those effects wouldn't be captured by twins separated at birth and sent to adoptive families. So this subset of experiments would have radically @Beef__Papa different conclusions from the others if that mattered a lot.

2. "Children raised together do not have the exact same environment."

Sure, but if someone is careful enough in the study this will end up being attributed to random factors rather than genes, because there is no..
Jan 24, 2023 28 tweets 7 min read
Is this man a pimp, and if so, does that make him a human trafficker, and if so, should pictures of his prostitutes be banned on Twitter?

Time for the ultimate🧵taking you to the epistemological limit of pimping, where lies a fractal of men exploiting women exploiting men.

1✍️ Being a teenager of the 90s, I have fond memories of old school rap songs in which rappers would brag about being a "P.i.m.p.," sometimes spending lyrical efforts at accentuating the capitalization of the letter P. As a Frenchman, I would not fully realize what they meant.

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