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Okey doke artichoke. This article from the Telegraph is pure culture wars bullshit. What they are proposing is traditionally called History of Science, and is taught everywhere. Assessment of historical

The curse of human uniqueness theories."Baron-Cohen postulates that between 70,000 and 100,000 years ago a genetic change took hold in the human brain.."https://bit.ly/3uNeVR2 This is not a great look. I'm

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

James Randi RIP, the Great Randi. My quick James Randi story. I only met him once, and he told me this tale, which you could stop at almost any point

Ok, a quick thread on white supremacy symbols - I spend a lot of time on white supremacy forums online, and they have dozens of really idiotic numerical codes, most

#LongCovid: a thread. Back in March, I was on @BBCr4today talking to @Marthakearney about getting Covid19. I was pretty upbeat, and predicted I would be better in a few days.

We know pretty much exactly when and how lactase persistence evolved in Europe and in other pastoralist societies. I wrote a whole chapter on this in A Brief History of

Here is an academic (preprint) paper describing the methods in the DNA sequencing tech for one of the two companies that the Gov have procured to test for COVID-19. 1/xhttps://twitter.com/nanopore/status/1293220551637577729

It is so perpetually exhausting to have to correct these medically and scientifically illiterate pub bores that somehow have national voices gifted to them not by talent or knowledge, but

On Lawrence Krauss' assertion that science is not systematically racist - a thread1/nhttps://twitter.com/LKrauss1/status/1279201378108182528 1st: let us put aside the multiple serious accusations of sexual harassment and subsequent reti

Humphrey Wakefield here expressing more scientifically illiterate genetic determinism. 1/x This view of hereditary genius flowing through families was expressed most clearly by Francis Galton, an undoubtedly great scientist, who

Ah so ‘men evolved beards to protect their faces in bouts of fisticuffs’ is an actual paper. A thread. 1/xhttps://bit.ly/3d4PDW4 However, it is still whiffy adaptationism, and one whose experimental