I still can’t get over Epstein’s ideas about viral adaptation in the Chotiner piece. I think he’s talking about what I think is a general pattern in virology that successful viruses need you to live long enough to allow them to propagate efficiently. So if you become ...
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Wait, seriously? Lamarckism is still around?
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Actually yes, but not really relevant here. Lamarck wasn't as wrong as people often assume... even Darwin thought as much. Lamarck was wrong about the mechanism, but not the underlying principle that use or disuse of a trait contributes to natural selection.
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It's nearly Hegelian. He has such faith in these abstractions that empirical evidence is irrelevant. We must heighten the contradictions and let the historical process solve the disease.
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Tempting to say he's projecting from personal experience. Movement conservatism consists of obviously toxic strains that, to thrive and persist, must evolve into milder, more mainstream, respectable forms. If pattern holds, by July Covid-19 is a libertarian-leaning think-tank!
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Genuinely scathing
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FFS....
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I would say he's a "la marde-ian". I.e. he's completely full of shit...
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