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Geneticist here. You can’t make facial profiles or accurate pigmentation predictions from DNA, and this is dangerous snake oil. twitter.com/edmontonpolice…
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Ignore all the noise of this hellsite and blast this glorious symphony into your head!
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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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Weird, a pair of actual Jehovah's witnesses just knocked on the door, and asked me what I thought about the origin of life.
"Um, you may have picked the wrong house here. I have 165 slides and a book'.
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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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The hard truth is that 100% of people who confuse correlation with causation will die.
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Please don't make me do this again.
If Cheddar Man has *any* single living descendant then he is the ancestor of LITERALLY EVERYONE ON EARTH.
Not metaphorically, or conceptually, but actually mathematically. All humans. Everyone. みんな. Tout le monde. 每个人. katoa. हर कोई. twitter.com/fasc1nate/stat…
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Little tip for travellers: never, ever fly Ryanair. Even If it’s a choice between Ryanair and a paper cut on your bellend.
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Auto-captioning for #PMQs is playing a surreal blinder right now.
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The constant threat of brutal justice delivered by the Batman? twitter.com/DoctorLockwood…
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I had a crack at what I presume must've been a conversation between Lady Sarah Hussey and Prince Philip.
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I mean, you know this is insanity, right? Like, perfectly emblematic of the utter corruption and madness of this whole tournament. twitter.com/FBAwayDays/sta…
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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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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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If only *anyone* involved in saying this had even the slightest knowledge of history, notably the history of eugenics, or Nazi Germany. twitter.com/kateferguson4/…
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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…
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I love this man with all my heart @rizwanahmed
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Fascinating. The father of Boris Johnson espousing very clear eugenics policies, and Great Replacement ideology whilst referring to the fecundity of ‘black and brown and yellow races’ as opposed to indigenous Britons twitter.com/Xx17965797N/st…
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‘It’s called weather’ says Julia Hartley Brewer, repeating one of the most inane basic misunderstandings of climate science, a canard of lazy utter ignorance akin to ‘if we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys’ twitter.com/bbcquestiontim…
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Here is a classic example of modern scientific racism. I am no blank slatist - as a geneticist, it would be an absurd position to take. However, this thread below is very much mistaken, and not the open goal that the author believes. Here's why: twitter.com/monitoringbias…
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Almost none of what follows in this thread is true.
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has never been shown in humans, and in mice, the results are pretty ropey on the whole, underpowered, statistically questionable.
Exercise, eat well, but not because of flakey science. twitter.com/foundmyfitness…
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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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As it is my job to relate everything to eugenics*, and in the US, actual Gilead-style eugenics is being discussed at the highest level, a quick thread about this article that is causing much ire.
* semi-sarcasm
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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…
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
President of @Humanists_UK
Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
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