I have ZERO time for someone who describes themself: "As an evolutionary geneticist and a conservative" in what is so clearly a piece of eugenicist stagesetting taking up any room in the evolutionary discourse.
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So, here're the folks I follow who I am calling out as following this atrocious man & asking them why:
@LTMorran,@wasp_venom,@LHlusko,@MackKatya,@IsobelRonai,@MyFrogCroaked ,@rhskraus,@AliceWi11iams ,@101Alun ,@alisondevault,@TwilightBeasts,@adam_kranz ,@mark_carnall5 replies 1 retweet 14 likesShow this thread -
@IndoorEcology ,
@TinaLasisi ,@DK_Dowling ,@maxjfarrell ,@StatsForBios ,@EvoEcoAmy ,@MatthewJDalby ,@DeepFriedDNA ,@DrRachaelF ,@margaretkosmala ,@Point_Mutation ,@JanFreedman ,@TetZoo ,@klsywd ,@LSmonster , @Noah_K_Whiteman ,@erasmuszu ,@EveEmshwiller8 replies 0 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
@dbweissman ,@BiologyAndCats ,@postyourtoast ,@amesoudi ,@PLOSBiology ,@tomhouslay ,@XCsci ,@MusingBiologist ,@achazhardenberg ,@Harpur ,@UCDflowerpower , @NatureNews ,@rvosa ,@cegAmorim ,@PLOS3 replies 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
A few more choice quotations from his recent article for y'all to passively endorse until you fix this shit: "[on evolution] because it is one of the crowning achievements of modern Western civilization"
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"The science built upon the rock of Charles Darwin’s ideas is a reflection of Western modernity’s commitment to truth as a fundamental value."
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"the truth of the world around us can inform our efforts to seek the good — and in this sense, the political implications of evolutionary biology do not favor the Left. "
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"but we must remember the traditions of our ancestors so as to accept the good while avoiding the bad. Similarly, our deepest instincts are powerful because they have been selected for over time."
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This. THIS shit is what y'all want to support? absolutely the fuck not. This is the most toxic manifestation of our field and I'm ashamed at the folk I see following this bigoted charlatan who thinks he has a mote claim to evolutionary theory.
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EEB is burdened with profound colonial eugenicist legacies and y'all are following some right-wing conservative zealot co-opting our science inaccurately to further a right-wing agenda? Nah. Not on my watch,
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