Dan Vergano

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2024-10-16 17:01:57

Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/revealed-international-race-science-network-secretly-funded-by-us-tech-boss

2024-10-08 19:23:10

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@npub14cw…hfwc The 'Tough Luck' at the end of the quote is a sentiment I'd I
like to see appended to the bumper sticker.

2024-10-08 13:58:18

Bernard Wood on not wasting your time on unsolvable problems "questions that seek causal explanations for unique historical events: causal + unique + historical"
quotes Richard Lewontin -
"give up the childish notion that everything that is interesting about nature can be understood" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.22041?campaign=woletoc
https://cdn.masto.host/sciencemastodoncom/media_attachments/files/113/272/152/210/692/023/original/3233ccc892bbed86.png

2024-09-20 00:01:45

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@npub1zle…38k8 do you recall Clare Fraser and TIGR? another pun here? Always interviewing her on sequencing

2024-09-19 19:15:24

Genetic diversity among privately owned tigers
"The authors generated whole-genome sequences for 138 tigers residing in sanctuaries across the United States and combined the data with previously published genome sequences ... subspecies with the highest prevalence among the sequences examined were Amur and Bengal tigers. Genetic diversity and levels of inbreeding among the privately owned tigers were similar to those of wild populations. "
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2402924121

2024-09-19 19:15:24

2024-08-27 21:09:41

suspicious cuz it confirms my suspicions
PNAS
Neural network tied to religious fundamentalism
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2322399121
Researchers examined the psychology and neuroanatomy associated with religious fundamentalism based on analysis of 190 patients with brain lesions. The analysis uncovered links between religious fundamentalism and lesions in a network of brain regions... that resembled brain lesion patterns previously associated with pathological confabulation and criminal behavior.

2024-07-29 14:01:55

Social Media Is Junk Food for Information Foragers
Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior can help us retake control
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-exploits-our-evolutionary-desire-for-information/

2024-07-19 14:22:58

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@npub1typ…c8hh
but are they left-handed?

2024-07-19 14:22:58

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@npub1typ…c8hh
but are they left-handed?

2024-07-17 22:48:58

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@npub14cw…hfwc Gotta warn ya. If you want to argue with philosophers on this, you are in for a lot of ... interpolating

2024-07-17 15:27:14

ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/

2024-07-01 16:34:38

"Ignorance, indifference, or incompetence: why are Russian covert actions so easily unmasked?"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2023.2300165
"Russian actions often display ignorance about the reactions they might elicit, indifference to global opinion if they are caught, and incompetence that allows foreign governments to unpeel the sometimes thin veneer of clandestinity..."
Sounds like a lot of authoritarians

2024-06-27 13:38:20

The Pentagon’s Antivaccine Propaganda Endangered Public Health and Tarnished U.S. Credibility
Amid the pandemic, the Pentagon ran a conspiracy campaign to discredit vaccines–just so it could score points against China. The revelation is a worst-case scenario for global public health
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-pentagons-antivaccine-propaganda-endangered-public-health-and-tarnished/

2024-06-18 15:50:50

Inside a Federal Judge’s Cozy Ties to an Anti-Gay Marriage Think Tank
Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement takes annual trips funded by a think tank that advocates for overturning gay marriage. She also ruled on a panel last year that a Christian business was allowed to discriminate against gay people.
https://www.notus.org/courts/fifth-circuit-edith-brown-clement-witherspoon

2024-06-04 15:19:49

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@npub14cw…hfwc
another question is how much the academic trappings, whether Pareto or Friedman etc., line up with what business leaders wanted to do, regardless.

2024-06-04 15:12:57

Neurodivergent Kids Flourish When They’re Taught How Their Brains Work
When teachers and parents talk to kids about having ADHD, autism or learning disabilities, they set them up for success
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neurodivergent-kids-flourish-when-theyre-taught-how-their-brains-work/

2024-05-31 19:20:21

"a transition away from neoliberalism, like that from Soviet communism, will have to grapple with the fact that the ‘governing science’ has become an excuse for a concerted corporate state capture for which, in our case, the Conservative Party, has become the protection racket: a syndrome now continuously reinforced by the ideology's core economic principles"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.13408?campaign=wolearlyview

2024-05-28 19:35:02

Bad news for my millennials - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/kykl.12395?campaign=wolearlyview
The sun's position at birth is unrelated to subjective well-being: Debunking astrological claims
"...the present findings undermine astrological claims regarding the impact of zodiac signs on well-being, which has profound implications. These findings underscore the urgent need to increase public awareness..."

2024-05-23 15:01:36

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@npub14cw…hfwc I'll take a look,

2024-05-23 14:42:00

Like the Zen artists leaving signature mistakes in their brushwork, my signature typo's in every single, g-ddam email will no doubt be treasured for centuries...

2024-05-15 17:20:43

As far as I can tell, the big effect of moving to editor as a gig is that I now loathe the word, 'impact'.
Most particularly as a verb. But losing tolerance for any of its flatuses. Impactful. Ugh. Now just nix it on sight

2024-04-26 13:27:26

Reporting Havana Syndrome, have always been frustrated by neuroscientists, neurologists, psychologists and health physicists who refused to comment on questions clearly in their expert purview on a matter of public interest.
But fair to say, their assessment is accurate of the politics of harassment that stepping into the fray could entail:
"After complaints, National Institutes of Health launches review of Havana Syndrome study"
https://news.yahoo.com/complaints-national-institutes-health-launches-195424436.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall