I've said this for years: the average "science beat" journalist has no degree in science & often oversimplifies things.
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The LA Times ran an article once on genetic diseases and tried to downplay that they were hereditary.
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People keep liking that tweet, so I went and dug it out:http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/06/local/la-me-donor6-2009dec06 …
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Notice the really awkward 2nd sentence? That's the one where they're trying hard to stay politically correct.
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Last sentence of Sailer's piece is particularly excellent (and also pure Moldbug, FWIW).
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We need a catchy name for the fallacy of "But the difference is only 0.1%!" As if that mirrored diffs in phenotype.
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"The 3 million gap" false meme(it's more)
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Similar to, but not quite same as Lewontin's fallacy.
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Also, didn't researchers show that Europeans have something like 4% Neandertal genes and those genes are absent in Africans
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Good piece. I like the "what race are Mexicans?" It clearly shows how these folks mistake Nationality with race.
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Pseudo-science.
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Pathological altruism and naivety exists among East Asians too apparantly. Good thing most are still like Lee Kuan Yew.
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OMG! Science is happening! THIS MUST BE STOPPED!
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Maybe there was a time when
@TheAtlantic had authors & articles of high quality. Today that site invites only ridicule.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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