A short thread about truth: Certain African (iirc) tribes have evolved complicated cooking rituals to prepare specific plants, because otherwise you’ll be cursed by the ancestors or some similar explanation of calamity; (1/3)
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Replying to @dmcdougall
Are you thinking of manioc? From Joseph Henrich's book "The Secret of our Success":pic.twitter.com/vwObjAq5mv
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SSC's review of the book also gives this example. This, too, may be causally opaque: if it's the difference between 5% chance of birth defects and 10% chance of birth defects, sample size is too small to find epistemological link between diet and birth defects.pic.twitter.com/MaUMlW4OWT
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I kind of expect these all to be “it’s complicated” at this point - this is another famous one http://burkeandwills.slv.vic.gov.au/ask-an-expert/did-burke-and-wills-die-because-they-ate-nardoo …
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