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See if you can guess who is right here. Is it
A) Science - a complex social process where thousands of people model, measure and test multiple scenarios and hypotheses using methodologies, advanced technology and statistics developed over centuries, or
B) Toby Young? 🧐 twitter.com/toadmeister/st…
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Apart from the fact that this makes no sense, literally everyone in Europe is descended from Charlemagne, and all people in the UK with any longstanding British ancestry are descended from Edward III.
These are straight up facts. Wooooh mystery! twitter.com/StephenM/statu…
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The replies. The endless racist replies.
My favourite is ‘how can she have dark skin when there is no sunlight under the sea’
My dude, she’s a frigging mermaid. Pigmentation is the very least of the evolutionary issues presented. twitter.com/DisneyStudios/…
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Alternative headline: discrimination abounds as disproportionate number of privately educated pupils admitted to Cambridge, for the 700th year in a row.
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Morning. Here is my @royalsociety Attenborough Lecture from last night. I enjoyed it enormously. youtu.be/hIIgAIB5AWw
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As Boris Johnson does a victory lap at the conclusion of his reign in No.10, it is important to remember that he leaves in shame, forced out by his own MPs - no-one else - after a tenure characterised by deceit, elitism, cronyism, bigotry, and predictable ignominy. Remember him.
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In 1144, Norwich had been the setting for a foundational event in the history of antisemitism when the family of a boy – canonised as St. William of Norwich - claimed that local Jews had murdered him: this became the first documented invocation of the hideous Blood Libel myth.
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This date aligns with a prominent mass murder in Norwich in 1190CE when many Jewish people were killed during antisemitic riots, following the beginning of the Third Crusade.
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The presence of that many skeletons, many children, some with head injuries and some head first, strongly indicates they were deliberately thrown in the well in a murderous or violent act. Radiocarbon dating puts the incident securely between 1161–1216 CE.
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This is (like the lactose/milk paper last month) is another barnstorming piece of #totalscience led by @mt_genes, Ian Barnes (@NHM_London) and also @Boothicus et al,
Here’s the paper itself
bit.ly/3pYd0sl
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The deaths of 17 medieval Jews: An incredible new genetics paper has just dropped: The earliest Jewish genomes and the story of where they are from and how they died is incredibly important, and central to the origin of contemporary antisemitic conspiracy hatred. 🧵
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‘I did my own research’ has peaked with this. And it was peer reviewed by Michael Green and Shant Grapps
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I’m starting a wellness clinic, based on my daily routine:
* wake up. Doesn’t really matter what time
* think about stuff. Or not. Doesn’t really matter
* make coffee. Probably too much. Get the jitters. Have a sit down
* read a bit. Swim. Or not
* hang out with people you like
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Ignore all the noise of this hellsite and blast this glorious symphony into your head!
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The extraordinary life of a scientist you've never heard of... twitter.com/whippletom/sta…
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RESULTS
* It turns out that milk consumption was common for thousands of years *before* the LP gene spread significantly: so selection of this gene is unlikely to be due to its positive effects because it allowed individuals to consume more milk.
13/n
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BUT! The new study in @Nature shows that this story is not correct. It’s incredible, 360 work, combining archaeology, chemistry, genetics, epidemiology, and more than 500,000 people living and dead, to reveal the wild complexity of human evolution. 10/n
go.nature.com/3S85w31
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MILK TIME 🥛! Have you ever considered that it’s a bit weird that you drink the milk of another animal, and it’s totally normal? Milk is a billion-dollar industry.
A *HUGE* new human evolution paper just dropped, upending one of the great modern evolutionary ideas. 🧵 1/n
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Well this is somewhat troubling. twitter.com/WritesBright/s…
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Auto-captioning for #PMQs is playing a surreal blinder right now.
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Many of us have been saying this for years. Sapiens is brimming with errors both trivial and profound, and a casualness with evidence that is Petersonesque. I know of no book where expert criticism and popularity are so polar.
currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-da…
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What has happened with the overturning of Roe v Wade is the shame of the democratic world. We must never risk the UK following that same slippery slope of injustice.
Please join me in petitioning
@DHSCgovuk & @MoJGovUK to protect abortion rights. RT pls
bit.ly/3yut22n
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Denigrating modern art is from the standard fascist playbook. The Nazis held an exhibition titled Degenerate Art in 1937, including Van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse, hanging their works chaotically with slogans like “nature as seen by sick minds”. twitter.com/michaeljknowle…
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A feature I wrote to er celebrate the 200th birthday of pea enthusiast Johann G. Mendel, whose brilliant scientific work 🧬🌸 was misunderstood, bastardised and co-opted to prop up racist, ableist and classist political ideologies throughout the 20th C. theguardian.com/science/2022/j…
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Tom Hunt went to King's Ely school, a private boarding school founded in 970ce, whose year 9-13 fees are £35,958. twitter.com/tomhunt1988/st…
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
President of @Humanists_UK
Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
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