The real question is if they'll even notice or care. They're already pretty much ignoring psychometrics and behavioral genetics, e.g. Philip Cohen (sociologist) liked this reply in the thread.https://twitter.com/csmarcum/status/1055819739996610560 …
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They may not care about the data, but the data will care about them. This stuff is actionable. There will be court cases about it and it will have ramifications for labor law. This stuff isn't way off over the horizon anymore, it's coming into view nowhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/06/184853.1 …
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The courts are completely ill-equipped to interpret scientific evidence and the state of consensus. Example: This one totally BS study was solely responsible for flipping a state supreme court on a key case.https://twitter.com/AnechoicMedia14/status/1050785002881986561 …
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Look at how long really bad right-wing beliefs on climate change stuck around, and that was with the entire weight of elite opinion propagandizing against them. Now imagine the same imbalance of power, but the truth is flipped. Will it matter to any reporter, activist, or court?
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Genetics can predict things (unlike people talking about the climate, who can’t)
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Global warming over the last couple of decades has been in line with predictions. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7356
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The evidence has been overwhelming for decades and it hasn't stopped them yet. Academic departments are self-propagating and dishonest people choose to hire more dishonest people. Tenure, too. Did you read the career narrative that starts The Nurture Assumption?
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If the lies are already scientifically untenable but the propaganda continues, maybe the lies will survive? Daniels observed that commie propaganda was intended not to deceive but to humiliate—everyone knew the ppl in power were lying, but everyone knew they could get away w it.
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This is assuming the technology is allowed to advance, though. The Catholic Church was able to inhibit the development of astronomy for centuries — Copernicus to Galileo is 200 years.
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Thats a bit of a red herring, no? The vast populations of Europe were illiterate during that time, so control was far simpler.
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Are illiterate people really easier to control? Afghanistan would seem to refute that claim
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You so sure? The Taliban seemed to have little trouble. Maybe they don't easily bend the knee to invaders.
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my prediction: they will claim to have always known and understood but were forced by expedience to deny. much like the rehabilitation of former communist bloc WP members in socdem parties
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I admire your audacious optimism but I'm not sure it's warranted. Race-deniera control all the levers of power.
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