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Excellent essay from Coyne and Maroja that picks apart six widespread examples of biology being corrupted by (often well-intentioned) ideology.

This is a super long debunking video, over 90 minutes, but Miniminuteman is always fun.

Unsurprisingly, these ‘mystery walls,’ which have been attributed to everything from lost races to giants to extraterrestrials, were most likely built by European settlers.

Brilliant mind. I was lucky enough to meet him at an invited lecture once and he was nice enough to sign Freedom Evolves for me....

This is a decent new jumping-on point for archaeology YouTuber Stefan Milo, who devotes a significant amount of time to debunking pseudoarchaeology. But all of his videos are interesting. I highly recommend him.

There is a lot of disinformation flying around about this. The original myth about Cass “dismissing 98% of all data” started because an activist on twitter read the wrong paper....

Here he is on Rogan if you can stomach it. I cannot....

Seen the “98% of studies were ignored!” one doing the rounds on social media. The editorial in the BMJ put it in much better terms:...

doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07229-y...

The mighty Hitch and one of his great orations. I often wonder what would he think of the world, such as it is, in 2024.

Wat??

Now, a new study adds another layer of doubt. Loeb’s team chose their search area in part based on data gathered by a seismic station on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, which picked up vibrations that seemed to be generated by the meteor’s fiery, superfast trip through Earth’s atmosphere. But those vibrations likely...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12885782...

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