• Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I think a lot of Fascists actually understand science better than the average Lib. They know scientific understanding is only as good as the data you put in, bad data in, bad theories out. But they also know that libs practically worship science as a capital T Truthful thing, that if The Science says something, then it must be true.

    So they do things like this. They know they’re full of shit, but they don’t care, if they can influence public perception enough (while also defunding scientific programs enough) then “The Science” will just be treated as vague “common sense” which is easy to manipulate.

    And it works on Liberals, really well. I’m sure all of us here have heard at least one Liberal share this opinion that non-white people are inherently less intelligent than whites, just with a condescending attitude instead of a hostile one.

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      linking intelligence to aristocracy heritability is time honored tradition of iq tests (the reason they were invented tbh). they’ve had to include other whiteys under umbrella, but real heads know that a polish man redacted-1redacted-2 compared to real anglo of california breed

      it’s kinda a neat trick of swapping “i can predict your future earnings by your zip-code/parents income” into “your parents are so smart and rich and successful and beautiful and donate to my ngo, you obviously will be smart and therefore successful” (it’s swapping correlation into a causation, for reddit nerds reading this 😘)

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    That’s so crazy. Here I was thinking that power had a tendency to concentrate and that people used race as an easy knee jerk in group to distribute power to. I’m now learning that we’re actually in a meritocracy where talent is all the brings people to the top. That’s why nobody bothers learning anything and I can easily name 5 business leaders and politicians in America that I respect on the basis of their intelligence.

    Just kidding. Fuck you. I hate you.

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      there is whole thingy in britain where academic mr. arday was “revealed” to be a plagiarist, was hounded by media (including local fedcobin - novara media), and then was found dead.

      one mr. cofnas (in the screenshot) has been behind this episode, and had whole of eugenicist podcast appearances and text work behind him, so that might be the animus behind that crusade of his.

      ms. hossenfelder comment strongly implies she agrees with “scientific” views of one mr. cofnas (but of course with such nebulousness, she might say side of science is opposed to such views, if her patreon count were to drop precipitously)

      p.s. the whole episode is bad vibes all round, i believe the plagiarism part is likely correct, but all the worst people (with still worse intentions) hounded the guy for what is really trivial matter. literally the worst he may achieved is getting a nothing job from it, while some people manage to mislead whole fields of science with manufactured images/theories. (like normal academic punishment is blacklisting such people, you can’t get job in academy if you plagiarized/lied in your work intentionally. not so much with sexual harassment and appropriating your underlings results tho

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      Sabine Hassenfeffer

      damn looked her up, i recalled watching one of her videos and was like - there is something really off about this woman

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I don’t want to give specifics to avoid doxxing myself, but I’ve met Cofnas in the context of professional philosophy and he comes across just as creepy and hitler-detector as you’d expect. Hopefully this is the end of his career in academia.

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          small scale whatever those plasma donuts colliding are called and inertial laser are semi plausible (but more importantly cheap to shoot shit around), iter tho is a giant pile of shit

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      very early on in her youtube career she had a reasonable thing or two to say, then she went full crank and has opinions about things far outside her expertise, like happens to all physicists eventually.