No, Seriously, Don’t Politicize Anti-Vax Sentiment
I read Amanda Marcotte's recent piece, Vaccination becomes a more partisan issue, with Republicans on the wrong side of it, despairingly. The only thing worse than someone trying to politicize...
View ArticleGood science communication means never calling them “retard” – even if you’re...
Communicating science to people who aren’t scientists is very hard to do well. Nassim Taleb should be very good at it, based on his enormous book sales and even more enormous opinion of his own skills....
View ArticleDeep (Conspira)Sea Fishing: A Fundraising Drive
I want to attend the lectures and workshops. I want to ask questions. I want to have those conversations. And I want to tell you about it.… Continue reading →
View ArticleResponses to some questions about our recently published paper on haplogroup...
Just a few days ago, my co-author Deborah Bolnick and I published a paper in the journal PaleoAmerica on the subject of haplogroup X and Native American population history. Rather than writing a blog...
View ArticleA skeptic on the Conspira-Sea Cruise: Day 1
Colin is currently on the ConspiraSea Cruise doing research for a book on irrational beliefs. He is emailing summaries of each day’s experiences to me for posting here on Violent Metaphors. This is the...
View ArticleReverse the Constitutional Polarity of the Baryonic Trustee Matrix: Legal...
Pseudolaw isn’t harmless. It ruins lives. It sends people to prison. People die behind this, as you’ve seen happen in Oregon. The pseudolaw that’s happening on the boat is tame by comparison, but still...
View ArticleNothing to fear: ConspiraSea cruise day 3
Colin is currently on the ConspiraSea Cruise doing research for a book on irrational beliefs. He is emailing summaries of each day’s experiences to me for posting here on Violent Metaphors. This is the...
View ArticleTroubled Waters: ConspiraSea Cruise Day 4(ish)
Colin is currently on the ConspiraSea Cruise doing research for a book on irrational beliefs. He is emailing summaries of each day’s experiences to me for posting here on Violent Metaphors. This is the...
View ArticleConspiraSea Day 7: I failed.
This is Day Seven, the last in my seven-day series of updates from or about the ConspiraSea Cruise. You can read Day 1 here, Day 2 here , Day 3 here, Day 4 here, Day 5 Part 1 here, Day 5 Part 2 here,...
View ArticleArchaeological Fantasies and the genetic history of the Americas
The excellent podcast Archaeological Fantasies recently had me on as a guest for a wide ranging discussion on genetics. We covered everything from the genetic prehistory of the Americas to issues...
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