Letting women into universities has been an unmitigated disaster for western civilisation. They’ve already crippled it with their vaginisation of the law schools but now they’re deconstructing the very fabric of reality.

The essential problem of dealing with acknowledging the reality of evolutionary psychology or concentric circles of genetic relatedness defining much human intergroup interaction and conflict potentially accidentally revealing a dry unemotive paradigm to examine what is happening to Western European peoples is similar to problems with having both Wachowski ‘sisters’ in the same place at the same time in front of cameras.

https://twitter.com/DialecticalP/status/1473920146444099584

Hmm…i thought it curious that the 3 obits i read didn’t mention that oh yeh he put out his eye when he was a kid and if I’m not mistaken(it’s been so long since i read his bio)this caused him to focus on the smaller things…like ants due to losing an eye. He also considered it a very significant event in his life.
And I’m not even gonna mention all the really really prestigious awards he took home and not just for being such a wonderful guy ya know.
Who comes up with this stuff?
Didnt he like…contribute?
What about all the awards?

“Complicated,” like “complex,” is a tell. Racial socialists use such terms, in order to signal to their ilk, “Yes, I’m just as lying and evil as you are.”

I is a scientist!!!

But … it sure looks like: they don’t.

Under Citizenism, this would never happen, right?

the dumbing down of American discourse

A natural consequence of sacralizing the least intelligent demographic segment of the population, which I suspect has been implemented by those who dominate the institutions and wish to continue to dominate them (or have their lazier, less capable progeny dominate them in the future).

It’s the destruction of upward mobility and the death of true meritocracy at the expense of truth, beauty, faith, and scientific progress among many good things.

Once upon a time we had scientists striving for truth. Now we have their intellectual inferiors attempting to pull them down.

Pretty much the standard for our day

This is mainly just nonsense that plenty of stupid trash neolibs left and right, white and black, could have written. Especially given Wilson always emphasized that human behavior was probably unique in being far less influenced by genes than most animals.

The part that makes me laugh hardest is this.

the descriptions and importance of ant societies existing as colonies is a component of Wilson’s work that should have been critiqued.

Saying that it’s problematic to use THE SCIENTIFIC TERM FOR REFERRING TO ANT COLONIES when referring to ANT COLONIES? Unbelievable.

Tariq Nasheed (not to knock him, I like the man) would be ashamed to say something like this. Black Hebrew Israelites defending Crown Heights would make fun of this lady.

If you read her suggestions… Man oh man… They really want to destroy everything that is left of our scientifically rigorous institutions and salt the earth when they are done.

Relying on the Chinese and Japanese to preserve the torch of learning and industry while the West goes through one of its per-millenium Dark Ages doesn’t exactly fill my soul with warmth, but whaddya whaddya?

Other scholars have pointed out that feminist standpoint theory is helpful in understanding white empiricism and who is eligible to be a worthy observer of the human condition and our world.

Are you eligible to be an observer of the human condition and our world? Ms. Monica Lysenko McLemore, armed by “feminist standpoint theory,” gets to decide. If you are an evil white empiricist no observer license for you!

“Letting women into universities has been an unmitigated disaster for western civilisation. They’ve already crippled it with their vaginisation of the law schools but now they’re deconstructing the very fabric of reality.”

Really unfair, and if women had shittier IQs, they’d be lying to you about it right now, and they’re not.

1918: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1270/1270-h/1270-h.htm#link2H_INTR

“Women, in truth, are not only intelligent; they have almost a monopoly of certain of the subtler and more utile forms of intelligence. The thing itself, indeed, might be reasonably described as a special feminine character; there is in it, in more than one of its manifestations, a femaleness as palpable as the femaleness of cruelty, masochism or rouge. Men are strong. Men are brave in physical combat. Men have sentiment. Men are romantic, and love what they conceive to be virtue and beauty. Men incline to faith, hope and charity. Men know how to sweat and endure. Men are amiable and fond. But in so far as they show the true fundamentals of intelligence—in so far as they reveal a capacity for discovering the kernel of eternal verity in the husk of delusion and hallucination and a passion for bringing it forth—to that extent, at least, they are feminine, and still nourished by the milk of their mothers. “Human creatures,” says George, borrowing from Weininger, “are never entirely male or entirely female; there are no men, there are no women, but only sexual majorities.” Find me an obviously intelligent man, a man free from sentimentality and illusion, a man hard to deceive, a man of the first class, and I’ll show you a man with a wide streak of woman in him. Bonaparte had it; Goethe had it; Schopenhauer had it; Bismarck and Lincoln had it; in Shakespeare, if the Freudians are to be believed, it amounted to downright homosexuality. The essential traits and qualities of the male, the hallmarks of the unpolluted masculine, are at the same time the hall-marks of the Schalskopf. The caveman is all muscles and mush. Without a woman to rule him and think for him, he is a truly lamentable spectacle: a baby with whiskers, a rabbit with the frame of an aurochs, a feeble and preposterous caricature of God.”

When “problematic” is the main beef this idiotic mediocrity has for research and concepts she’s too dim-witted to comprehend, one would have to ask her, for whom and why is it problematic? She wouldn’t have a clue without more coaching, and even then…

Reproductive and research justice posits that centering the most oppressed people with everything they need to be successful unleashes the full creativity of humanity. I believe this with my entire being.

What does this mean? It’s not even English. McLemore is not even fit to be Wilson’s cleaning lady. Such a great man deserves better enemies. It’s really sad that this is the best that SA could bring to bear against Wilson’s legacy (and yet in the current environment it will be considered good enough).

Second, the application of the scientific method matters: what works for ants and other nonhuman species is not always relevant for health and/or human outcomes. For example, the associations of Black people with poor health outcomes, economic disadvantage and reduced life expectancy can be explained by structural racism, yet Blackness or Black culture is frequently cited as the driver of those health disparities.

Her example has nothing to do with the first sentence. This woman’s idea of the “scientific method” is to denounce everything as “structural racism” and leave it at that. If her IQ exceeds 90 I’ll eat my hat.

This will require commitments from journal editors, peer reviewers and the scientific community to invest in retrofitting existing publications with this expertise. They can do so by employing humanities scholars, journalists and other science communicators with the appropriate expertise to evaluate health and life sciences manuscripts submitted for publication.

A win-win : DIEvirsity jobs for people (like her) incapable of actually doing science and a force of DIEversity commissars to review all papers for compliance with the Party Line. “I see here that you are not blaming structural racism for the disease that you are researching. Your paper is rejected.”

If this is really by whom and how future America will be run, we are in deep shit.

Second, diversifying the scientific workforce is crucial not only to asking new types of research questions and unlocking new discoveries but also to conducting better science. Other scholars have pointed out that feminist standpoint theory is helpful in understanding white empiricism and who is eligible to be a worthy observer of the human condition and our world. We can apply the same approach to scientific research. …

…by having a registered nurse of the correct race and sex decide who is eligible to conduct and assess such research. Goodbye, E. O. Wilson, Fisher, Galton, Mendel, Huxley and Darwin. La’Kisha and Shaniqua will conduct better science than those unworthy white men, asking new types of research questions and unlocking new discoveries.

We have already made a start within our space program. Whereas forthcoming Chinese lunar missions merely plan to create a permanent lunar base, our own moonshots have a loftier goal: to put a woman and a person of color on the moon!

This is beyond nuts. Scientific American should be ashamed.
Meanwhile, Monica McElmore is a piece of work. Her theories are based on her imagined potential of black people. In Wakanda?

Scientific American? It’s not as if it’s a real scientific publication………you know, like Omni

Schelling points in a nutshell. I think that explains a lot of what’s going on. You don’t need an organized conspiracy if you have enough quasi-independent forces acting in a correlated direction. The impact is going to be the same.

OT – Twitter suspends mRNA Inventor Dr. Robert Malone:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-suspends-mrna-inventor-dr-robert-malone

Nothing to see hear Ron/Steve/HA/Jack… just another crazy anti-vaxxxxxxxer, amirite???

“After a long clinical career as a registered nurse, I became a laboratory-trained scientist”

Steve can you find her “peer review” research on hair weaves?

A family member on the lefty side got my son a subscription to Scientific American for Christmas. We received one issue already, which come to think of it, probably has this garbage in it.

Who’d have thought I’d rather having him reading Maxim or Playboy (for the articles, of course!) than Scientific American, at this or ANY age?

It’s a shame to see so many once respectable institutions debase themselves with what in all likelihood is a cultural charade that cannot be maintained indefinitely. However, a product of its rampage through society is that many, many people having experiences that will undermine the claims of the wokistas and a critical mass of society will eventually be ready for a different message. People who have consciously broken with their previous beliefs and assumptions (or those imposed on them) tend to be very dedicated to their new systems of belief and are usually lost to the previous faith for good.

Ant culture is hierarchal and matriarchal, based on human understandings of gender.

“[African] culture is hierarchal and matriarchal, based on human understandings of gender.”

I believe this with my entire being.

At least her entire being’s BMI is reasonable. Not always so in her demographic.

She’s always ready with a billboard quote extolling the trade she plies:

Abortion Action Fund: Juneteenth and Delayed Justice

In Mississippi, one has to cross state lines, Rittenhouse-style, to procure this service. These people are the Traveler’s Aid of dilation and curettage:

Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund

The inaugural class of the Black Abortionist Hall of Fame must include Patrick Chavis, famous for his involvement in the “gentleman’s draw” Bakke case in 1978. He boasted of being the best abortionist in LA, then diverted to bubble-butt surgery. Then he lost his life to carjackers whom the curette missed a couple decades earlier:

Malkin: The life and death of Patrick Chavis

What next, George Floyd will get a posthumous PhD from Caltech?

In the United States, BLACK WOMEN outlive white men, on average:

https://www.menshealthnetwork.org/library/mortalitysexrace.pdf

That is despite BLACK WOMEN being obese at a much higher rate (56.9%) than white men (44.7%), in the United States:

In the United States, white men– despite our supposedly being the most privileged people in American society– commit suicide an order of magnitude more often, per capita, than BLACK WOMEN– despite their supposedly being from the most oppressed racial and/or ethnic group, and also from the more oppressed sex, in American society:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2017.htm

How does Dr. Monica explain these seemingly counter-intuitive anomalies?

Does she support the H-1B and L1-B Visa Program?

Her theories are based on her imagined potential of black people. In Wakanda?

A woman who’s lived near the real-life Wakanda for decades just told me of how their high school’s mascot, the Indian, was changed. State law required this if anyone in the school district complained. According to her, it wasn’t a feather Indian who filed the complaint, it was a dot Indian, at University of Wisconsin-Stout!

I can enjoy Mencken but that is still one person’s opinion and not a study.

Numerous studies have shown that men and especially White men have more outliers. So debates about mean and median don’t mean much for positions where you are hiring the top .01%…..well if the goal is to hire the best anyways.

Funding a thousand mediocre left-wing professors won’t change this unfortunate fact of nature and it isn’t going away.

What does this mean?

More Gibs…….!

Yes, I noticed that–“complicated” doesn’t seem to mean what it normally means here. I think she’s saying “evil” but can’t quite get around to that since a good portion of her team doesn’t believe in the concept.

Is that a woman?

Another pro-abortion feminist that couldn’t get laid in a men’s prison.

Feminism is really female sexual jealousy.

‘…his dangerous ideas on what factors influence human behavior…’

Jeepers. If something’s dangerous…

I am still waiting for an example of Wilson’s racism.

Ant culture is hierarchal and matriarchal, based on human understandings of gender.

Oh my God. Ants (like other hymenopterans) are haplodiploid. Their sex determination system is completely unrelated to the XY system, much less any “human understanding of gender.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system

This from a “laboratory-trained scientist.” Assume any degrees or other credentials given to blacks are “plaques for blacks” unless and until you have individualized, empirical data demonstrating otherwise.

Monica R. McLemore:

while, as a society, our collective fates are inextricably linked

Some will chose the sites of mass graves, and others will be the landfill?

“It’s complicated” = “It’s pretty simple and straightforward but we don’t like reality or the truth so mumble, mumble, something, mumble.”

Mrs. McLemore’s excessive use of the term “problematic” is in itself…. problematic.

Scientific American is letting registered nurses write opinion pieces now?

“The caveman is all muscles and mush. Without a woman to rule him and think for him, he is a truly lamentable spectacle: a baby with whiskers, a rabbit with the frame of an aurochs, a feeble and preposterous caricature of God.”

MEN OF UNZ, baby!

The Smart Set thought they’d insulate themselves from the racial havoc visited upon the rest of us. They didn’t take a stand against what was happening. And they sure didn’t forge an identity with other White people.

Wouldn’t be prudent for the ol’ career.

But worse than (which is a bit understandable), they actually blocked efforts by those Whites who were willing to make a stand.

These are the consequences. We will see people die sooner than they had to due to incompetence is fields like science and medicine. Even among the Smart Set.

Ms. McLemore shows that explanations by “structural racism” come near to mere pseudo-explanations or covert tautologies.The question is: What causes racial disparaties in health? The alleged answer is: structural racism. But “structural racism” is in fact only defined as “that something-something which causes racial disparaties”, so the answer gives no additional information, but only repeats the question with other words.

Letting women into universities has been an unmitigated disaster for western civilisation. They’ve already crippled it with their vaginisation of the law schools but now they’re deconstructing the very fabric of reality.

Case in point.

His predecessors—mathematician Karl Pearson, anthropologist Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel and others—also published works and spoke of theories fraught with racist ideas about distributions of health and illness in populations without any attention to the context in which these distributions occur.

All ideologues assume (or insist) that science rests on moral assumptions. It doesn’t.

That a value statement can be verified in the same way that an empirical or predictive statement is verified is an attitude that very few people have outgrown.

This is why people are constantly subjecting scientific statements to moral interpretations. The irony is their moral interpretations go unexamined and unanalyzed.

That fact is Darwin, Wilson, etc. were scientists, not moralists, and they knew it. But she doesn’t. So, her statements on the matter have no scientific authority.

Unfortunately, however, and as everyone here knows, this isn’t about scientific authority. It’s about political power. And that, sadly, she does have.

The only good news is to be found in the inevitable consequence of giving lots and lots of credentialed mediocrities like her lots and lots of power – Cultural Impoverishment and the Collapse of the Social Institutions that Power Controls! And that means all of them.

A process already well underway. Just look around. These people are far from invincible.

Correct. And the deliberate 0ver-promotion of women in the past 10 years in the newsrooms and in once-esteemed publications such as Scientific American and National Geographic has resulted in these institutions embracing and willfully promoting of this kind of woke, anti-empirical, anti-intellectual schlock.

If you want to know how woke a science/news publication is, a good guide is to look at how many women are represented in the key editorial positions.

Mrs. McLemore’s excessive use of the term “problematic” is in itself…. problematic.

Exactly! And not just her. Every time they use it now it’s like BING! Hitting the dumbbell. Anyway, there goes another word they’ve ruined.

Then again, dumbells love hiding behind multisyllabic words. They actually think we won’t be able to tell how dumb they are. When we already know exactly because they like to use multisyllabic words. Dumbbells.

The competition from race- realist Han China will provide a loud, clear signal about alternative ways to think, and organize society.

USA used to have a huge margin for error. Not so much anymore, methinks.

So is the term “problematic”. This terminology is employed as an intellectual deflection tactic when the racial socialist (or the anti-empirical types) can’t formulate a compelling scientific argument against what’s triggering them. It signals to their cultist like-minds that the matter at-hand is morally triggering and therefore it does not demand any serious evaluation of its merits.

Agreed. Seeing this put in print taking the place of someone’s astute observations, having to nod and approve of it in front of others, defending this load of garbage when pressed, and possibly having to work alongside this woman without saying a bad word, all that’s got to be very embarrassing to real, decent scientists.

As a whole, as you wrote, they brought this on themselves. How many scientists are on the alt-right, even in secret?

Are Maxim or Playboy less woke?

spawned an entire field of behavioral psychology grounded in the notion that differences among humans could be explained by genetics, inheritance and other biological mechanisms

I wonder what brand of racism she credits her vitiligo to?

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10751/vitiligo

Vitiligo sometimes “runs in families,” suggesting a genetic basis.

The problematics of dermatological racism are complicated.

How does Dr. Monica explain these seemingly counter-intuitive anomalies?

Are you hard of hearing? She already told you: structural racism.

It’s white supremacy to cite data that suggests whites themselves might be victims, because doing so privileges white people and their supposed “problems” and takes the focus away from the suffering of People of Color.

Empiricism is for honkies!

For those Harvard and NY Review of Books intellectuals who, as you say, are giving this black nurse the honor of writing the hit piece, it’s a win-win. Because they get brownie points for promoting a black person, and they don’t have to lower themselves to write nonsense.

“It’s complicated” = “It’s pretty simple and straightforward but we don’t like reality or the truth so mumble, mumble, something, mumble.”

It’s complicated = Dialectic stomp. Implicated cost. Tactic implodes.

Climatic despot.

All ideologues assume (or insist) that science rests on moral assumptions.

They also pretend that morals rest on scientific assumptions. Well, pseudoscientific.

Haha. When I started reading Scientific American (circa 1973) the HP-35 ads turned me on almost as much as the girly pictures in my older brother’s secret (he thought) stash.

They appear to use the phrase “more nuanced” a lot too.

Conspiracy Theory for Blacks: We are being held back by BAD OPINIONS.

the false dichotomy of nature versus nurture

Apparently is unaware that this is not a “dichotomy”, false or otherwise.

“You can stop reading now, honey!”

if we want an equitable future

What if we don’t?

Scientific American is letting registered nurses write opinion pieces now?

Heh. Gerard Piel, who was the SciAm prime mover pre-rag, must be whirling in his grave.

I will take “Diversity Woes”, Alex.

In this nation, the following can be written by an associate professor in a popular science journal:

First, the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard

What is late-stage imperial USA?

The “normal distribution” has nothing to do with “assuming a standard” but corresponds to the stance of “assuming the least” – just a perfectly symmetrical distribution with a mean and variance over R. This stance will then be updated by changing the distribution as we find out more. But often we don’t need to.

It of course also (and not incidentally) corresponds to the distribution that is the outcome of a random walk starting at the mean and appears in descriptions of thermodynamic systems in equilibrium (i.e. dead things and thoroughly mixed things) and is the distribution with a given mean and variance ranging over R that maximizes entropy as well.

https://aidanlyon.com/normal_distributions.pdf

This maximum entropy property of the normal distribution makes it an important kind of an attractor: if we start with some arbitrary distribution and repeatedly perform operations on it so that it increases in entropy but maintains its mean and variance, then the distribution will approach the normal distribution.

So “assuming the least” often gives us the correct distribution (as generated by a mixing / random walk process) right away.

Uh, permanently losing sight in one eye would be among the most significant events in anyone’s life. I would rather lose a leg than an eye.

We would always have racial tensions and racial disparities under any regime, because those things are in large part a function of nature. But under this regime, resentful midwits – who define oppression as being a black woman – unironically use terms like “white empiricism” in a magazine that, at least for a long time in the past, was one of the most prestigious and important publications for disseminating scientific knowledge to the masses. Now it’s basically Tumblr.

Hmmm…I wonder what the founder of Scientific American, Rufus Porter (1792 -1884), might of thought about all of this?

Anyhow, the guy was a real genius.

In 1849, at a time when they had had things like public air shows with ‘aeronauts’ doing parachute jumps from hot air balloons for well nigh 50 plus years, Porter was taking things to a whole new level with his ‘aeroport’ and air ship designs.

If it hadn’t been for a string of some really bad luck, who knows what might of been?

In 1849 Porter planned to build an 800-foot steam-powered airship with accommodations for 50 to 100 passengers, aiming to convey miners to the California Gold Rush. He had already built and flown several scale models in Boston and New York. He advertised New York-to-California service, asking a $50 down payment for a $200 fare, and began building immediately. His first “aeroport” was 240 feet long; it was destroyed by a tornado. Later that year, he began a 700-foot version with new backers, but during a showing of the almost-complete dirigible on Thanksgiving Day, rowdy visitors tore the hydrogen bag and destroyed it. In 1854 his third attempt ended with technical troubles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Porter_(inventor)

“The West” is not monolithic. France, for all of its many problems, is quite hostile to wokeness, viewing it as yet another toxic Anglo-American cultural export that doesn’t have any place in France. And Germany, despite the best efforts of their genocidal rulers, will not abandon the scientific and engineering rigor that has defined their society for centuries. This will be especially true once the Great Satan collapses and is no longer able to occupy and colonize Germany like they have for the last 77 years.

It’s both.

Organized and “multi-vector.”

Evil Ages are evil because of the age and the collective mass of Evil, not just the actions of one, nor just blind meandering.

The left really does treat blacks as subhuman.

For the sake of argument, let’s assume that there really is major “systemic racism” against blacks in the current year.*

Regardless, if blacks are human then necessarily they have personal and collective agency, and they can choose to use this agency to improve their culture and their communities.

I think almost everyone would acknowledge that one of the worst types of parents is the parent who allows their kid to get away with anything and doesn’t instill any sort of accountability or discipline in the child. But when the left treats an entire race of people in this way, this is accepted as completely normal and healthy by a large portion of the population. I think even all of us race realists would acknowledge that blacks have some agency and ability to improve their culture, but the mainstream left has completely abandoned this idea.

*by this I mean “systemic racism” in the way that the anti-white left defines it, not in the “soft bigotry of low expectations” sense which is very real and very harmful to blacks (and everyone else)

Whites have significantly lower odds of being a victim of crime than Blax and Hispanix.

Second, the application of the scientific method matters: what works for ants and other nonhuman species is not always relevant for health and/or human outcomes.

Right.

For example, the associations of Black people with poor health outcomes, economic disadvantage and reduced life expectancy can be explained by structural racism,

Wrong.

OK, just for the pictures. I admit it now.

I take it you mean Hewlett Packard ads with girls in mini skirts alongside the computers? Our few copies came from from a kid around the corner’s Dad’s stash.

Little known fact, Mencken identified as nonbinary/genderfluid and told people he preferred they/them pronouns, but everyone thought he was being a wiseass.

Now, here’s a true MAN OF UNZ! The hatred of all things American is the hallmark of a real MAN OF UNZ, luckily not nearly as ubiquitous in the iSteve comments as elsewhere on the site.

Yeah, American genderbender wokeness has been spread around by the Lyin’ Press and the military. Other than that, Germany and France have been creating their own cultural stupidity for most of a century. It’s not Americans who imported Turks to Germany and Algerians to France. Herr Merkel comes from the East, not the West.

Lastly, if you remember anything about the Cold War, the German people had plenty of resistance to the military presence, there to save their asses from the Warsaw Pact tanks. There was call for unilateral disarmament. That was back when the US was paying for defense of the entire West. Stupidity is universal, Andrew. Don’t blame it all on America.

You are the guy that thinks there’s rap music as good as Beethoven, though, so I dunno…

Altai – the basic problem is maybe a tad simpler than you let it appear (this is not saying you’re not havening a point. You do have a point here. But it is – figuratively speaking, at the fifth or eith place behind zero – like in 0, 0000Wachowski…

Before the zero, we find this diagnosis in Steve’s harsh & simple words:

the dumbing down of American discourse has really accelerated during the Great Awokening

Except – it is, I’d like to add, more that Western discourse in gerneral suffers quite a bit, unfortunately.

PS
(Japan might be no part of the West in this regard – would anybody know more about this subject?)

I’m putting my investing dollars in Asia.

It’s politely referred to as black culture. A racist would suggest that black dna is faulty.

But I also think it’s very possible that it’s a vector-sum situation.

I wasn’t suggesting that there was some sort of a cabal that is centrally coordinating these trends. But it is perfectly possible and, indeed, plausible, that there is a broad class of people pursuing certain policies and social trends for their own benefit. They need not be coordinated, but merely crowd-followed.

Across history, lots of groups have taken actions that weren’t ultimately in their long-term best interests.

Yes, but such actions are intended to serve short-term interests. As I often write, intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom. And the elites of our society today seem particularly short-sighted.

Various influential groups promote various policies for various reasons, and the emergent result is the unintentional outcome produced by their combined interactions.

I think the short-term outcomes are hardly unintended. Audacious Epigone once posted a graph or a table that showed support for affirmative action among the left-leaning whites in this country, categorized by income. Upscale whites were much more likely to support affirmative action than middle class or downscale whites. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that their support of affirmative action 1) provides for virtue signaling, thus signifying their membership in the “right” class and 2) conveniently hampers meritocratic rivals (non-upscale, but highly intelligent whites and East Asians).

This society of our is something. It’s illegal to advertise tobacco products, but ads for murdering unborn babies are completely okay.

That’s exactly what I always thought, but never had the words for.

Stuff happens. If powerful people are threatened by it, they’ll stop it. If they can. If it doesn’t bother them, they let it continue to happen.

Yeah, social Justice winds up being a way the upper and upper middle classes maintain their position and keep ambitious lower class people down.

The whole intelligence versus wisdom concept is pretty useful…but I have to know. Did you get it from the man with the funny dice?

He’s not the mRNA inventor:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w

The tangled history of mRNA vaccines

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/

The Vaccine Scientist Spreading Vaccine Misinformation

And yes, Twitter behavior is shameful.

Some stuff just happens, and other stuff is made to happen. Why do you think that the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the Soros Foundation, and other big money players are putting billions in NGO’s, think tanks, endowments and media? It’s called soft power, enforcing your policies through indirect means. Please, don’t be so naive.

You are absolutely correct. I have frequently felt the need to mention that when race-realists claim that blacks have some sort of genetic inability to function as rational human beings, they are being just as ridiculous as the Left. Blacks are human beings; blacks have agency—hold them accountable.

We’ve often heard about DR3 (which, in retrospect, was not really that far off the mark), but there is a shadow version of that which we might call HBD2, i.e. “HBDers are the real Democrats.”

It goes right along with P2UA—“PUAs are the real pedestalizers.”

Second, the application of the scientific method matters: what works for ants and other nonhuman species is not always relevant for health and/or human outcomes. For example, the associations of Black people with poor health outcomes, economic disadvantage and reduced life expectancy can be explained by structural racism…

“explained by structural racism” has nothing to do with the application of the scientific method.

Deep digs:

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/were-never-going-to-learn-about-how

From there;

https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-COVID-19-Inoculations-More-Harm-Than-Good-REV-Dec-16-2021.pdf

https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/us-covid19-vaccines-proven-to-cause-more-harm-than-good-based-on-pivotal-clinical-trial-data-analyzed-using-the-proper-scientific--1811.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475002100161X

LOLZ via the first report:

Latest info brings up the fact that all the shots in men under 40 increase the risk of myocarditis above the one that COVID brings to the table alone, but the Moderna 2nd dose shot (or maybe just the Moderna long-term effect?) yields about 1 in 10’000 additional mycoarditis events – so far. No info about the effects of the “booster shot” yet but I feel it’s not likely to look very good.

“Miss Greta’s post-conference power exchange sessions were the hottest around, and any conference-goer interested in culture was in the know.”

She aborts blacks? What’s not to like?

You have this all wrong: who else but the modern analogue of the Roman empire could afford to install such house pets as a laboratory scientist? The Chinese and Japanese are not so drunk with power, we are.

Of course, like all house pets, they think they run the place and are now running amok, only you can’t discipline them because then they’ll call you “the evil white racist.”

Every institution that placed such dummies above their station was already decaying from within, sometimes for decades. Most are about to be destroyed by the Internet. I wouldn’t wring my hands about “the torch of learning and industry” as that has moved online a long time ago, including on blogs like this.

The only question is how long it takes these old institutions like UCSF to circle the drain, and she is actually helping that by destroying them from within. I suggest you just laugh and enjoy the show, as the universities will and should be destroyed regardless of this DIE racketeering.

What does this mean?

After generations of personality disorder in Blacks! being encouraged, Black intellectuals believe that whites have to save them. Since all their problems are caused by whites, only whites can save them.

Ant culture is hierarchal and matriarchal, based on human understandings of gender.

I didn’t even get to this [REDACTED] phrase. What is this shit?

Maybe it’s “Phase V”: Black Womenx in control.

The law schools have always been a disaster. As Matt Stoller put it on his SubStack:

Big corporate urban law firms were created in the 1880s and 1890s, and grew concurrently with trusts like Standard Oil and General Electric. (Gibson Dunn, for instance, was founded in 1890.) Progressive elites created corporatist institutions, like law schools, to staff these new administrative bureaus, and gradually fought a war to eliminate the country lawyer who learned his craft through apprenticeship. Doing so took a long time. Even into the 1960s, there were more committee chairmen in Congress with a one year degree from Cumberland law school (which didn’t require a college education to enter) than Harvard Law.

… big law gradually won the fight, until it became impossible to be a lawyer without a college and law school education. And then in the 1980s, the ethical boundaries completely collapsed. “For half a million dollars you could buy any legal opinion you wanted from any law firm in New York,” said one anonymous lawyer in that first decade of neoliberalism.

The Common Law system is an unmitigated disaster. The law schools make it much worse.

A kind, joyous scientist who loved the natural world being posthumously critiqued by a credentialed someone who doesn’t grasp the most basic elements of his monumental research is either disheartening or hilarious. Wilson would have laughed about it. He didn’t spend much time being angry at people.

Not subhuman.

Retarded children.

About as poorly written as Michelle Obama’s senior thesis at Princeton. Michelle was only 21 and wasn’t writing for publication, so she gets a pass. This woman’s prose frankly stinks.

Just remember, she was/is an RN, and you might end up in the hospital being cared for by people like her. Get healthy, stay healthy.

Thanks, interesting.

“An offspring formed from the union of a sperm and an egg develops as a female, and an unfertilized egg develops as a male. This means that the males have half the number of chromosomes that a female has, and are haploid (only one set of chromosomes).

The haplodiploid sex-determination system has a number of peculiarities. For example, a male has no father and cannot have sons, but he has a grandfather and can have grandsons. Additionally, if a eusocial-insect colony has only one queen, and she has only mated once, then the relatedness between workers (diploid females) in a hive or nest is 3⁄4. This means the workers in such monogamous single-queen colonies are significantly more closely related than in other sex determination systems where the relatedness of siblings is usually no more than 1⁄2. It is this point which drives the kin selection theory of how eusociality evolved. Whether haplodiploidy did in fact pave the way for the evolution of eusociality is still a matter of debate.”

OT – I just know you’ve all been waiting for this one:

“Grindr reveals which countries have the most tops and bottoms”

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/29/grindr-unwrapped-tops-bottoms-2021/

Every time I read one of these woke editorials talking about “critiquing” “problematic” “systems of oppression” that create “structural inequities” . . . .

I think : “OK yeah yeah, but how come you shoot up the sixth grade graduation party?”

This from a “laboratory-trained scientist.” Assume any degrees or other credentials given to blacks are “plaques for blacks” unless and until you have individualized, empirical data demonstrating otherwise.

Amen. The last black scientist worth a damn was Yakub.

Can I touch her hair?

R̶e̶-̶p̶a̶g̶a̶n̶i̶z̶i̶n̶g̶ Re-paganized.

Anybody who uses a term like “white empiricism” has passed well below midwit territory.

The caveman is all muscles and mush.

This is true, and describes me.

When presented with HBD-style arguments about immigration, relative success of European-derived societies independent of stated political ideology etc. in the 90s, I recoiled from them. Looking back introspectively, this wasn’t because I rationally considered the claims and rejected them, but because I could smell the stink of loser all over this worldview, and I was a young guy on the make.

This has worked out incredibly well for me personally (at least in a material sense), but so many of us acting this way has not turned out so well for America.

Thanks, this statement stuck out to me as well:

“First, the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard”

It’s like the saying the number 2 is purple. It carries syntactic meaning, but is substantively nonsense.

It’s Christmastide so I feel charitable

Looks like the artifact involved in the first “Area 51” incident in recorded history, 1897

Aurora, Texas, UFO incident

Mystery airship

Some argued that the airship reports were genuine accounts. Steerable airships had been publicly flown in the U.S. since the Aereon in 1863, and numerous inventors were working on airship and aircraft designs (the idea that a secretive inventor might have developed a viable craft with advanced capabilities was the focus of Jules Verne’s 1886 novel Robur the Conqueror). In fact, two French Army officers and engineers, Arthur Krebs and Charles Renard, had successfully flown in an electric-powered airship called La France as early as 1884, making no fewer than seven successful flights in the craft over an eleven-month period.

Also during the 1896–97 period, David Schwarz built an aluminum-skinned airship in Germany that successfully flew over Tempelhof Field before being irreparably damaged during a hard landing. Both events clearly demonstrated that the technology to build a practical airship existed during the period in question, though if reports of the capabilities of the California and Midwest airship sighted in 1896–97 are true, it would have been considerably more advanced than any airship built up to that time.
The 1884 Krebs & Renard first fully controllable free-flights with the LA FRANCE electric dirigible near Paris (Krebs arch.)

Several individuals, including Lyman Gilmore and Charles Dellschau, were later identified as possible candidates for being involved in the design and construction of the airships, although little evidence was found in support of these ideas.

Techno-nerd Jules Verne’s novel

Robur the Conqueror

features a mad engineer who launches a propeller airship from a secret tech lair on a mystery island to attempt to become master of the world.

As I often write, intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

As any longtime member might tell you, the owl is not the most appropriate symbol for Mensa. Nor for Temple University.

(I’ll leave the wisdom of Rice U. for Steve to comment upon.)

“By wisdom and courage.”

Reproductive justice and research
Posit white men must be knocked off of they perch,
Thus centering the people they oppress
With everything they need to have success.
I submit, with scientific objectiviteh,
This will unleash all of human creativiteh.

With every kinky fiber of my bein’
I believe, and ain’t nobody disagreein’.

I have seen “black culture” and it is not pretty

It has nothing to do with women. In China, women end up occupying roughly 60% of non tenure track academic positions. The object is to keep them at each other’s throats instead of at men’s throats. The best way to do that is to have 4 millennia of women-hate inured in your culture.

If you want to know why they are increasingly returning to the view that whites, particularly American ones, are barbarians— look no further than the fact that your market economy is run by women.

The “simps” of China are almost invariably Westernized or denizens of Western media-culture spaces. Woman hate is the foundation of a healthy society. I hate my wife, but I also love my wife. I meet fewer and fewer red blooded white American men who can say both in front of their wife without fearing retribution.

That isn’t new. One might argue the few times and places where it was not the case (or at least to a lesser degree) are the exceptions.

Doesn’t it become one of those “first they came for…” situations? If you read what this woman is demanding (scientifically unqualified diversity commissars who will pre-screen all scientific work for political correctness) it has to be horrifying to real scientists. If the price of getting rid of that clever but geeky Asian guy and that creepy old white male prof is that an ignorant female negro RN will henceforth critique and exercise veto power over your work from an idiotic POV, was it worth it?

First, truth and reconciliation are necessary in the scientific record,

That sounds ominous.

Turks and Merkel are pretty tame issues compared to the fallout of American wokeness.

This is mainly just nonsense that plenty of stupid trash neolibs left and right, white and black, could have written.

I disagree with this. Sure there are plenty of people with her racial and female chips on their shoulders, but it takes a special kind of stupidity and total lack of self-awareness to write this dreck. A few points dumber and she couldn’t have written it. A few points smarter and she would have been too embarassed to write it or would have made a more intelligent critique.

Very few people are in her just right zone of marginal stupidity, where you know that something called the normal distribution exists and yet are unable to comprehend what it means and yet are so overconfident that you think that you do and are willing to publicly spout off about how it is racist.

‘ I believe this with my entire being’

there you go then. No need for proof when you’re an obese diversitard hire – feelingz is enough!

I have a serious question for you, Reg. I am not being flippant and I mean no disrespect.

Do you want women of this ilk to forego abortion and have children?

It’s not really women per se, it’s just that women are much more susceptible to emotional manipulation and conforming to what they perceive as prevailing social “standards” without wondering whether those standards are real or engineered.

Had we not let into our country a people who would actively resist assimilating into a Christian nation and then letting them take control of our entertainment, finance, academia, publishing, and government then the social engineering and emotional manipulation that’s driven most women (more) insane would never have happened. Most of those early “Civil Rights” activists were of that same tribe, so it’s arguable that Black Americans wouldn’t be quite so “exuberant”, as Steve puts it, had we not permitted those people into our country.

Imagine America with no feminism and no “Civil Rights” revolution of the 60’s, no welfare state to “have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years” so Black families would still be mostly intact and most Black men working like they were in the 1950’s therefore the cost of the Great Society projects wouldn’t have driven Nixon to close the Gold window, and a good chance of no Federal Reserve since that tribe of non-Christians were very much behind getting Wilson to support a central Federal bank, just like they were very supportive of American involvement in WWI and II.

If 2% of our population was Haitian or Somalian I doubt they’d do as much damage as the small hat people have done over the past 140 years or so.

If the price of getting rid of that clever but geeky Asian guy and that creepy old white male prof is that an ignorant female negro RN will henceforth critique and exercise veto power over your work from an idiotic POV, was it worth it?

The entrenched usually think ‘We’ll always be able to run rings around the likes of Monica R. McLemore’ which is, broadly speaking, true until it isn’t.

Very few people are in her just right zone of marginal stupidity, where you know that something called the normal distribution exists and yet are unable to comprehend what it means and yet are so overconfident that you think that you do and are willing to publicly spout off about how it is racist.

I suspect you are giving her too much credit. I would wager that,other than stupidity of course, nothing in this article is original with her. Not the ‘truth and reconciliation’, not the critique of standard distribution, not even the colonies/colonialism nonsense. All of this is stuff she absorbed in humanities courses and lefty twitter and the like. Her confidence is based on her belief that other people think so.

After a long clinical career as a registered nurse, she should know by now what factors influence human behavior.

Wilson was hardly alone in his problematic beliefs. His predecessors—mathematician Karl Pearson, anthropologist Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel and others—also published works and spoke of theories fraught with racist ideas about distributions of health and illness in populations without any attention to the context in which these distributions occur.

She goes after Karl Pearson; but not Ronald Fisher?

Did she get the two of them confused?

What college freshman wrote this for her?

I get all that, but my point was to highlight the deficiency of Sailer’s citizenism with respect to this particular sort of problem. It’s wonderful that the state is now tasked with favoring the interests of its existing citizens over the interests of those who might some day like to be citizens, but it’s not going to help you much if some angry, intersectional Piece of Color moves in next door to you.

This is out of context and you’ve constructed a strawman. The subject isn’t average IQs, first of all. Second, Mencken is talking about women then, more than a century ago–women in traditional gender roles, woman occupying the lane nature intended for Her to stay in. There’s a reason why women were put on pedestals then. But women make pisspoor men.

Ooh, Matron!

I’m sure that she doesn’t have an original thought in her head but again she is at that sweet spot where you can absorb all the Leftist cant without really understanding that it is Leftist cant and yet you have the ability to play it back with reasonable facility. A little dumber and you wouldn’t be able to critique the work of Wilson from a Lefty Twitter (is there any other kind?) perspective and a little smarter and you wouldn’t want to.

This, and her dark countenance of course, makes her the ideal golem for carrying out the dirty work that Wilson’s enemies don’t want to be publicly associated with. And of course, should that unlucky day come when Monica steps over the line and there is a backlash (I keep waiting for that day but it hasn’t happened yet) they can distance themselves from her ridiculousness.

The most intelligent people I know go well out of their way to avoid scientific jargon and twenty-five cent words so that lesser educated people can understand them; they do this to clarify and convey ideas, not to overwhelm with ideology. The people who suffer from a lack of confidence – perhaps a consequence of being promoted past their level of competence – feel the need to clutter their speech to sound more intelligent. They also engage in overwrought navel-gazing on subjects that produce nothing more than inedible word salad.

Monica R. McLemore is an associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department and a clinician-scientist at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. “After a long clinical career as a registered nurse, I became a laboratory-trained scientist…”

Were Monica R. McLemore to perish tomorrow, I suspect not one whit of actual knowledge essential to the advancement of the human race would be lost. Indeed, in her place someone with something actual to contribute might be given the resources and opportunity to do so.

For the sake of my children I don’t want to West to implode, but when it does, one amazing byproduct will be watching the McLemore’s of the world be forced to be relevant or be eaten.

Sure there are plenty of people with her racial and female chips on their shoulders, but it takes a special kind of stupidity and total lack of self-awareness to write this dreck.

First I laughed. Then I thought: So what? – (This question might be a tough one.
Societies are complex beasts).

By the way, Ms. McLemore’s juxtaposition of “Black culture” and “economic disadvantage” as explanative factors is unnecessary. Oscar Lewis has described fifty years ago in what way life conditions and cultural habits can stabilize each other (“culture of poverty”).

Interestingly, Schopenhauer, despite being (in)famous for his essay “On Women,” insisted that an individual inherits his character from his father, his intelligence from his mother.

It certainly seems to be true for himself; his father was a gimlet-eyed businessman, as was Arthur in all financial affairs (see the story of how he held out for a 100% payout from a bankrupt company while his mother and sister settled for far less), while his mother was a famous (at the time) novelist and travel diarist (hence his unbeatable style). She mocked him for his poor sales, and he replied (correctly) that in 100 years he would be famous and she forgotten.

When I started reading Scientific American (circa 1973) the HP-35 ads turned me on almost as much as the girly pictures in my older brother’s secret (he thought) stash.

NSFW:

http://www.decodesystems.com/hp-calculator-ads.html

http://www.codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html

You are right – so what? The real demand for this kind of dreck should be zero but in our society there is a certain demand for it. However, our society also specializes in the overproduction of “elites” , who in the case of blacks are even more underqualified and overcredentialed than other “elites”. So they are never going to run out of blacks and other POCs to fill these cushy diversity commissar type roles which sure beats emptying bedpans.

No, I mean ads for the first pocket calculators that could put your slide rule out of business. They ran $395, which was a lot of money then. And yes, it was exciting.

The best part about living in a modern European-created society is that a race of stone-age people imported for manual labor are given free license to tell you how the brightest people in it are all wrong.

Sort of reminds me of people objecting to Imperial metrology because of the ‘imperial’ part.

https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/equality-and-diversity/diversifying-stem-curriculum-1/diversifying-stem-curriculum

Damn, you may have solved the riddle of what possible motive They could have. The ultimate form of “Life? The servants will do that for us” (from that Axel play Edmund Wilson was always citing).

That makes their critics “less nuanced” by default. Clever sophists.

Later that year, he began a 700-foot version with new backers, but during a showing of the almost-complete dirigible on Thanksgiving Day, rowdy visitors tore the hydrogen bag and destroyed it.

Kind of a metaphorical premonition?

“Curious green ideas sleep furiously” — example from Chomsky.

…mRNA Inventor…

I hope that you’re not under the impression that someone invented mRNA.

Another day another angry ugly orc running down whitey.These eggplants can’t create anything just destroy.

Michelle’s senior thesis was an ordinary student submission of the era, and satisfactorily comprehensible. Christopher Hitchens was pulling your leg.

The pity is Mooch was at Princeton studying sociology instead of at the University of Illinois at Chicago studying accounting or some such. And if she insisted on taking on debt to study something she loved, there was this place:

https://www.sothebysinstitute.com/new-york/masters-programs/ma-fine-and-decorative-art-and-design

His wife seems to have posted the wikipedia bits that – proved – that Malone did invent the mRNA vaccine.
He argues at times a bit whacky.
(And yes, the twitter behaviour is wrong)

Blogger Respectful Insolence has examples for Dr. Malone going off the rails while trying to make an argument against the mRNA-vaccine:

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/12/17/dr-robert-malone-goes-full-antivaccine-conspiracist/

Speaking as someone who has emptied bedpans: There’s nothing wrong with it – except maybe the payment. – We’re nearing now the territory of debates about an ideal world. – Hehe: In an ideal world, lots of people would understand, that they’d be much better off emptying bedpans than working in the pretention-business, faking importance day in day out. My observation is: Those – important-important people are often times obese. – A burdon – and a symptom. Monica R. McLemore looks as if she could be quite a bit overweight too… – heck: Even her name deems me to be a bit pretentious (= overweight… – and/or overwrought).

“LOLZ via the first report:”

Not going to bother going through all this, given that there’s already a comment dispensing with Malone, but since you got a link from “sciencedirect” which is frequently at least popcorn-worthy, if nothing else, with regard to anti-vaxx conspiracy theories, let’s at least have a look at that:

Because the paper's mistakes are not subtle. The topline mortality comparison is off by a factor of /a million/; the appendix doubles down + implies no one should vax.

Somehow I don't think biochemist Darja Kanduc agrees, despite being on the author list. /6 pic.twitter.com/sJxeO9IT5b

— Sam Klein📚 (@metasj) September 25, 2021

Here’s some top-of-the-heap quotes:

When you are senior editor of a journal and handle your own paper [referring to co-author Tsatsakis], it is not peer review, it is an editorial…

UPDATE: #Elsevier wrote to acknowledge concerns w/ three articles (the Kostoff anti-vax fraud; his 2d article listing vaccines as a contributing factor for IBS; the Ivermectin Heavy minus sign result w/ control group of size 3, framed as a Heavy plus sign result)….

After 3.5 months, dozens of complaints, and multiple inquiries from people tracking bad science & COVID disinformation, Elsevier expresses concern in the entire special issue and opens an investigation. /12

That last announcement was on the 19th, so I’d give it a little time to work its way through the process. In the meantime, here’s the explicit link from retraction watch and the blog that’s raising the most stink about it:

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/10/04/author-defends-paper-claiming-covid-19-vaccines-kill-five-times-more-people-over-65-than-they-save/

http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2021/09/30/journal-level-fraud-elsevier-fakes-peer-review-of-covid-click-bait/

I don’t think Pfizer/Moderna are quaking in their boots just yet.

More Gibs…….!

Gibs free energy!

Is the change negative?

Then it is spontaneous!

Lastly, examining nurture versus nature without any attention to externalities, such as opportunities and potential (financial structures, religiosity, community resources and other societal structures), that deeply influence human existence and experiences is both a crude and cruel lens. This dispassionate query will lead to individualistic notions of the value and meaning of human lives while, as a society, our collective fates are inextricably linked. …

An indictment of Blacks. They cannot function independently. They are dependent on whites. Blacks didn’t invent the light bulb cos reasons.

collective fates are inextricably linked

The Marxist plan isn’t to raise Blacks, it is to bring everyone down to their level. In general, McLemore gives us word salad in support of communism.

Do you want women of this ilk to forego abortion and have children?

Kylie, Reg has claimed, without evidence, that abortion “has culled several times as many whites” as Blacks (assuming an American context debate) :

https://www.unz.com/isteve/rittenhouse-and-his-antifa-attackers-good-guys-vs-bad-guys/#comment-5005478 (#375)

When challenged on his claim, he clammed up. Basically, he’s a superficial jester who presumably adheres to traditional Catholic doctrine IRL but is too wimpy to directly defend his faith online. Instead, passive-aggressive tut-tutting is his style. Amusingly, his faith and his online antipathy towards Blacks are in direct contradiction (as you noticed above), which makes for a limp, slimy Cæsar salad.

All that being said, Reg would likely win iSteve Commenter Jeopardy hands down. I always read his comments for his prolific, often obscure, occasionally interesting references. And I appreciate his grammar-marm corrections: I’m convinced it has improved the commenting here, through droll negative reinforcement. He is a snob ( not necessarily a criticism 😉 ), always arch, but gets in over his head when up against a better archer (me). C’est la vie!

Compare their behavior– and, for that matter, ours– in the “prochoice” era to what it was in the “antichoice”. How have the rosy predictions of 1973 panned out?

The Battle of the Steves took place a decade and a half ago:

https://freakonomics.com/2005/05/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/

https://www.unz.com/isteve/abortion-and-crime-sailer-responds-to/

https://www.unz.com/isteve/abortion-and-crime-so-levitt-was-wrong/

“Letting women into universities has been an unmitigated disaster for western civilisation.”

This is one of the most idiotic statements I’ve seen on this blog. Having women educated and involved in the workforce is what has distinguished Western civilization from the rest of the world. Just look at the Arab world, which is still ass-backwards because of their insistence on keeping their women barefoot and pregnant. Keeping 50% of your population uneducated is completely absurd, like something the Taliban would come up with.

“Kylie, Reg has claimed, without evidence, that abortion “has culled several times as many whites” as Blacks (assuming an American context debate) :”

If this is indeed about America, then given that “women of color are five times as likely to terminate a pregnancy as their white counterparts”, it probably isn’t true, but I’m not going to wade through the history of that multiplier since Roe v. Wade (and earlier, given that abortions have been around a long, long, time).

If, however, we include Communist countries during Soviet times where it was “not uncommon for a Soviet woman to have four or five abortions, and a few women [had] as many as 20 in state-run clinics”, then he’s on safer ground. Abortion rates in Russian today are less than half what they were at their Soviet peak, so there’s that.

In the end, if you believe abortion is wrong, then that should be the end of it. I don’t think that strategic appeals to “yeah, but think of all the BLACK babies we’d be getting rid of!” are going to work out all that well in the long run.

I copy and pasted the headline.

As I said, I copied and pasted the headline. Did you read it?

And yes, I’ll take the word of Nature Magazine (the publication that Sailer routinely points out has gone off its own rails) or the Leftist Rag The Atlantic, as well as you, the Stalin lover, and obvious big Pharma sockpuppet HA over this guy.

Let’s Go Bardan, get your booster!

Other than having babies, nursing, and teaching children, there isn’t much that women do that men can’t do better. Diverting intelligent women from baby-making into office work is absolutely destructive of society, and the long term economy if that is your concern. Where are the smart people to come from if smart women don’t bear them? Shaniqua’s kids? We can import Chinese and Hindus, but then it’s not America anymore. Do you really think that the scientific and industrial revolutions came about because because Europeans sent their girls to Cambridge or Heidelberg? Keep it up, and we’ll be no better than the Arabs.

France, for all of its many problems, is quite hostile to wokeness, viewing it as yet another toxic Anglo-American cultural export that doesn’t have any place in France.

Even in the Muslim city of Paris?

Structural racism is not a will-o-the-wisp. It’s verbalized and reified by enormous accumulations of legal code and judicial opinion that create a thing as solid as a building. We all know the twin pillars that support the structure: the doctrines of affirmative action and disparate impact.

Thanks for your reply. I’ll have to get back to you later. Meanwhile, let me just clarify that I didn’t use “ilk” as a euphemism for “race”. I meant liberal women as opposed to traditional women. It just seemed to me on the face of it that fewer children born to liberals would be an improvement.

Compare their behavior–

You’re an inartful dodger, Reg.

Kylie, I presume, is under the impression you don’t want any Blacks around, of any era, regardless of behavior, based on the your extensive anti-Black comments history. Your anti-abortion and anti-Black stances are self-contradictory. Care to give her a straight answer?

The obvious contradiction is that you are a self-identified doctrine-adhering Catholic, but your anti-Black stance is in contradiction with the Church, and possibly God. Do you not fear Judgment?

If, however, we include Communist countries during Soviet times where it was “not uncommon for a Soviet woman to have four or five abortions, and a few women [had] as many as 20 in state-run clinics”, then he’s on safer ground.

Cold War Western Europeans (and Americans) were on safer ground also, then. Imagine a much larger Red Army bolstered by a limitless cohort of conscript fodder. Yikes.

In the end, if you believe abortion is wrong, then that should be the end of it.

True, but Reg is afraid to make that case. Instead, Mr. Stickler veers into falsehoods about abortion rates/totals. I’m trying to compel him to be a better commenter in some areas.

I don’t think that strategic appeals to “yeah, but think of all the BLACK babies we’d be getting rid of!” are going to work out all that well in the long run.

It doesn’t help when debating the morality/immorality of abortion, I agree. Kylie wasn’t directly addressing that, though.

Well, you sure hit a nerve.

Mencken was right. He wasn’t putting down men; he was saying that the best people are women in men’s bodies –

Oh never mind.

Such a great man deserves better enemies.

Had ’em.

Lewontin and Gould tried to bring him down but failed.

If this is really by whom and how future America will be run, we are in deep shit.

Future America? They are running the country now & into deep shit.

The Smart Set thought they’d insulate themselves from the racial havoc visited upon the rest of us

I take it that your use of “Smart Set” refers to Mencken’s magazine which had that name?

Loyalty Over IQ Worship, if you knew that, you should also know that Mencken said favorable things about both the old Confederacy and the Neue Ordnung in Germany in H. L.’s time.

In New America, if an article uses the word “reckon” un-ironically, you know it is an anti-white hit piece.

Thanks for your reply. I’ll have to get back to you later. Meanwhile, let me just clarify that I didn’t use “ilk” as a euphemism for “race”.

I always get confused whether it was James Thurber or Ogden Nash who wrote “his ilk and his kith and his kin”. I think it was in Thurber’s piece on the dinosaur. Nash liked just “kith and kin”.

Read Jenner’s replies closely and you’ll see he fits comfortably in the Corvine ilk.

Complicated. Complex. Reckon. Equitable. Racist. Problematic.
.
From the Woke Cant-phrase Generator.

Colorless, not curious.

While I agree with your main point, your understanding of the “Arab world” is dated and incorrect.

*note to Pace: the Pashtun, et al, aren’t Arabs.

Nice. Gotta say, those ads just don’t get the same rise out of me that they used to. Maybe my lower testosterone. Maybe that now even my home thermostat is smarter that those HP-35s!

The obvious contradiction is that you are a self-identified doctrine-adhering Catholic, but your anti-Black stance is in contradiction with the Church, and possibly God. Do you not fear Judgment?

Is it a magisterium of the Church that Americans were wise to import Blacks from Africa to their Nascent republic? Failing that , I’m not sure that Reg falls afoul of Catholic doctrine. (I have no opinion as to Reg’s Catholicism, heterodoxy or anything else regarding his religious beliefs. Any implication otherwise is merely stipulatory.)

This is the inevitable result of handing control of magazines to Jewesses. Laura Helmuth is the editor in chief of Scientific American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Helmuth

Very convincing.

The woman is an illiterate black supremacist who is not intelligent enough to be a nurse, much less a professor, but lacks the intellectual integrity to dig ditches for a living.

“It is worth emphasizing the full awfulness of [her] writing….

“There are a few excellent black writers, but jumbles like this are all too typical of black intellectuals. What sort of disordered mind produces them? More urgently, how can whites — accustomed to language that communicates rather than wears down — deal with such minds?”

That was my grad school logic prof, Michael Levin, on reparations hustler Randall Robinson, in 2000, but his observations apply equally to this Monica R. McLemore person.

When people from affirmative action groups like McLemore attend college, their lives are perpetually in danger. Administrators stand on low hills all over campus and, when they see an aa group member, throw laminated diplomas at she/he/it (s/h/it, for short)—B.A.s, M.A.s, Ph.D.s. The recipient must at all times wear a motorcycle or football helmet.

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2014/05/never-ending-debt-michael-levin-refutes.html

The McLemores of the world are morally and politically inseparable from their racist benefactors, in this case, White Scientific American editor-in-chief, Laura Helmuth. How can Whites deal with people like Helmuth?

Is it a magisterium of the Church that Americans were wise to import Blacks from Africa to their Nascent republic? Failing that, I’m not sure that Reg falls afoul of Catholic doctrine.

Hmm, good point. I don’t know of current formal doctrine that is specifically anti-racist—but in practice the current Church, as with other Christian denominations, is cucked to the gills on race (some ‘trad’ parishes, etc. notwithstanding).

Commenter Desiderius once paraphrased St. Paul, “There is no East or West, no Jew or Greek in Christ.” The modern Church seems to agree regarding race, and it would indeed seem to be congruent with the message of John 3:16, but I haven’t seen Reg carve out an exception for Christian Blacks. Only a for a few prominent Black individuals like Thomas Sowell (not sure if Sowell’s religious). Otherwise, Reg don’t want ‘em around, period. Past or present. So there is some irony in his anti-Black racism.

His confusion or hidden motives (Pollyanna-ish pacifism?) lead to silly backpedaling and nonsense like his comments here:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/licorice-pizza-local-boy-makes-good/#comment-5038868 (#102)

Still, without decisions like this one, how do the police disarm law-abiding blacks? The 2nd and the 14th clash.

“Michelle’s senior thesis was an ordinary student submission of the era, and satisfactorily comprehensible. Christopher Hitchens was pulling your leg.”

Not really, Art. She had no sense of sentence boundaries, which is fundamental to literacy. She was like one of those 1950s action painters, who randomly shot paint out of a gun, only she randomly shot periods out of her “gun.”

Also, Luc Montaignier has apparently gone full weirdworld, allegedly saying that there are cases of vaccine-induced Creutzfeld-Jacob disease. How can he even know that? Are those COVID proteins swiss army knives?

At this point, one has to genuinely say it comes down to the feelz.

– Would you vaccinate children (I would not)?
– Would you get a 3rd Moderna shot if under 40 (with a nonzero risk of getting heart inflammation)? If over 40? In the age of omicron?
– Especially if the government “encourages” you to do so in no uncertain means?

Stats over the next few years will bring facts to the fore eventually. Or not. Random lawsuits of the quality of “roundup / baby powder gave me cancer” variety will muddy the waters of course.

And in 10 years, Ron will write an American Pravda article saying that COVID didn’t even exist and we have all been had to maximize confusion.

From pro-vax blogs.harvard.edu article:

they claim terrible and unknown long-term effects from vaccines (which are designed precisely to avoid those effects)

That kind of bold rhetoric and high-coffeine coffee keep me going. Show me the people who are able to “design vaccines to avoid [those] side-effects” and I will show you antigravity.

Meanwhile RT’s Fauciwatch:

Not vaccinating kids ‘doesn’t make any sense’ – Fauci: Parents have a ‘responsibility’ to inoculate their children against Covid-19, the health official said

Seriously, all this sounds like Vietnam War policy.

Fauci to collect fattest govt retirement package in US history: White House Covid adviser Anthony Fauci is expected to break a record by collecting tens of thousands of dollars in retirement checks once he quits his job

President Biden’s chief medical aide, Anthony Fauci, the senior US Covid-19 adviser and national institute director, is slated to receive over $350,000 in annual retirement benefits – the largest in the US government’s history.

I guess one can live off that.

Oh no, by “Smart Set”, I just meant those who thought their high IQ would shield them from what was happening to their race. Interesting about Mencken.

Look at how poorly this sentence is constructed…

‘Lastly, examining nurture versus nature without any attention to externalities, such as opportunities and potential (financial structures, religiosity, community resources and other societal structures), that deeply influence human existence and experiences is both a crude and cruel lens.”

“nuanced” at best

Very few people are in her just right zone of marginal stupidity, where you know that something called the normal distribution exists and yet are unable to comprehend what it means and yet are so overconfident that you think that you do and are willing to publicly spout off about how it is racist.

In a very real way, she’s confident and not overconfident. She knows full well that no one in any remotely prominent position will dare to correct her, for, uh, reasons.

This is actual privilege in action. Ultimately it’s vastly more destructive than the chimerical w.p. they’re always railing against.

Looks like the artifact involved in the first “Area 51” incident in recorded history, 1897

You know, it does.

That would of made for a pretty good episode of the 1960’s series, The Wild Wild West, which had a pretty strong steampunk vibe to it.

Our two intrepid heroes, secret service agents James West and Artemus Gordon, accidently uncover a secret base operated in a Western territory by rogue elements of the US government, which is the actual source of all those ‘mysterious airship’ sightings. In destroying the base and its airships in a spectacular fashion, they also free the elderly and eccentric (though brilliant) founder of Scientific American, Rufus Porter, who had disappeared many years before while leading a scientific expedition in South America, and had long been presumed dead.

In reality Porter had been kidnapped and forced to build his airship creation for these rogue elements. While Porter had intended his invention for entirely peaceful purposes, these blaggards, as the new Barbary Pirates, had attached bombs to the ships and were extorting the capitals of the world for millions in gold bullion annually in tribute, lest their capitals be blasted to oblivion.

All in a days work!

My response to being called “racist”:

“Yeah, I’m racist — I believe Blacks are superior to Whites at basketball, and East Asians have higher IQ’s than Whites, and the reasons are genetic.”

Let ’em chew on that!
🙂

I think we’ve always had both.

It’s a pity the editors of the magazine screwed up and printed the April 1st issue early this year, but to be fair, it really was pretty funny.

Michelle’s senior thesis was an ordinary student submission of the era,

I disagree. First of all, the topic was blackety-black-black, which is certainly not an ordinary submission unless you are black and even then most blacks who are not in the grievance business choose something more substantive.

2nd, the quality of the writing was comparable to that of a high school paper and way below what most seniors at Princeton produce. If she had been white and written a paper of this quality it would have been rejected.

How can Whites deal with people like Helmuth?

By not giving their patronage to Woke publications.

By insuring that people who edit scientific journals are scientists and not journalists. Journalism is one of the most Woke professions, especially among female journalists. If they have any sort of journalistic credential, throw that person’s resume in the trash.

All SA needs to do is fire its staff of Woke female editors and hire a bunch of white male hard scientists and their credibility would be instantly restored. But once the Left has captured an institution, all you can do as a practical matter is let it self destruct and start over.

You’re a good man, Twinkie. Good luck and God Bless you and yours in the coming year.

“Would you vaccinate children (I would not)?”

I admit that one is going to cause some angst even for those who are otherwise with the vaccine. In my understanding, such as it is, the rationale for giving the shot is that clots from COVID itself cause more myocarditis than the vaccines do (unless, like Kostoff, we torture the data in the manner that Klein described), so if it’s inevitable that we’re all going to come down with it, even children are — on average — safer taking the shot. But as is always the case, many will simply be too creeped out by the unknowns and choose to free-ride and let others take the risks, or continue to believe that ivermectin is the only magic bullet they’re going to need, even though it clearly isn’t. Or worse yet, prove to be disastrously unlucky in gambling that their kids won’t get COVID and suffer a clot.

In this study, the occurrence of myocarditis inpatient encounters was 42% higher in 2020 than in 2019. The risk for myocarditis among patients with COVID-19 during March 2020–January 2021 was nearly 16 times as high as the risk among patients without COVID-19, with the association between COVID-19 and myocarditis being most pronounced among children and older adults. Further, in this cohort, approximately 40% of patients with myocarditis had a history of COVID-19.

I know Mike Whitney and Alex Berenson want us to believe that any increase in myocarditis in the last year is solely due to vaccines. That simply isn’t true. (Obviously, this risk assessment may completely change with Omicron — maybe if it is relatively mild, then perhaps it causes very few instances of myocarditis, even lower than the vaccines, but at this point, that’s just wishful thinking).

It is very strange the way these people go from raising concerns/asking questions/pumping the brakes to balls to the wall, every conspiracy is true in a matter of weeks or months.

Obviously lots of potential explanations, but it’s disheartening that the only modes allowed for scientists at the moment seem to be conformist or kook.

“ But as is always the case, many will simply be too creeped out by the unknowns and choose to free-ride and let others take the risks”

You seem like a well meaning and public spirited guy, and you still alot of pixels for the vaccine gospel (with links!), but your rhetorical tic of switching between “your skepticism is totally delusional and you should probably be committed, but it’s ok you’re going to die soon anyway” and “man up and take the risk, otherwise you’re a freeloader living in the post-COVID paradise everyone who got the shot bled for” cracks me up.

BTW, the latest finding is that two doses of J&J are highly effective, so for people who are averse to mRNA vaccines this should be an acceptable alternative. Unless you are really just afraid of needles.

Another good article, Steve. Your quote is reason enough to not bother reading Scientific American nor authors like McLemore, save perhaps for parody value. SA and many other legacy publications are mere shells of what they once were, now a laughable “woke” immitation.

Here we have McLemore, by her account, a former nurse and additionally trained as a scientist. Unless I misread her, she is saying that the scientific method is all well and good for ants, but that people, blacks in particular, are exempt. All their failings, you see, are attributatble to “institutional racism” e.g. whitey’s fault. Apparently they are exempt from nature and nurture, unique among all living things. I wonder what McLemore would make of the negroid race’s relative performance in times and places completely devoid of any outside influence, including those of whites?

A professional satirist could not write more ludicrous prose than such dirvel, which passes for responsible journalism these days.

It gets pretty exasperating to listen to these types of complaints. If I observe that there seems to be a link between track and field medalists and their Pantone colour palette and then I refine this observation using a subset of gold medalists in the 100m dash and the athletes forearm Pantone shade, these are just observations. If I now formulate this as the “Pantone theory of sprinting”, this theory will be either mostly true or mostly false irrespective of whether I (a middle aged person of parlour) benefit from these conclusions. Moreover, the “Pantone theory of sprinting” will still be either mostly true or mostly false even if I do not know the exact mechanism of action, or whether the originators of the Pantone colour palette were cannibalistic serial killers. A lot of the woke commentators can’t seem to make this distinction. Lots of stuff is either mostly true or mostly false even if it does not benefit white people in general.

If she were ‘not intelligent enough to be a nurse’, she’d have failed her licensing exams. You need to dial it back.

I read the thesis. Let go of my leg.

Wilson might say something like this: It’s not that it is faulty, but that it codes evolutionary adaptation for an environment that is completely alien to what we normally think of Western Civilization.

Dude, you really need a break. You have been obsessed with Covid for two years. Yeah it’s a freaking bug. Measures are needed. Blah blah. We’ve had worse problems.

But it’s obviously given meaning to your life in some weird way. Take a vacation. Go hang out on a beach somewhere. Take up a hobby.

The hysteria you guys inflicted on us has created mass misery. It was never necessary to go at it like this. It’s like some hysterical woman who gives everybody around her a heart attack through stress.

I read the Atlantic piece. It is typical of the bird’s cage liner quality of Journalism at what once were prestigious periodicals, as with Scientific American. In defense of Malone I have heard him on one podcast interview where he was modest enough to to say something like “my name is on several patents.” As is typical of the mainstream media, this hit piece should have its claims inverted. There is, in fact, plenty wrong with the vaccines and there is in fact a cover up at all levels. The daily news continues to trot out humorous tidbits. For example today the CDC recommends even the vaccinated avoid the cruise ships due to the covid outbreak that are frequent on them now.

“…your rhetorical tic of switching between…”

Check the paper trail of those I am responding to — that should help clue you in as to which tone of voice I choose to adopt. In general, I’m more than willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt, but suffice it to say you shouldn’t expect any respect from me if you’ve given me more than enough reason to dismiss you as an anti-vaxxer loon — e.g. claiming that mask restrictions are a worse imposition of civil liberties than forced military conscription or MK Ultra, claiming “I was never in the just-a-flu-bro club” even after being shown proof of the contrary, telling me how it’s the government that needs to do more about COVID even failing to get a jab and then winding up in the hospital with COVID.

Not one of those examples was made up, and not one of them deserves kid gloves at this point.

“…two doses of J&J are highly effective…”

Yes, good point. Also, as I noted earlier, the Novavax did very well in its trials despite using older technology that doesn’t have that great a reputation with regard to respiratory viruses (and that was one of the initial selling points for the mRNA vaccines).

So for those who want to stick it to Pfizer and go with a vaccine technology that has been in use for decades and which has full FDA approval (all of which seem to be prevalent in the grab-bag of lame excuses for why people can’t be bothered to get a shot), there’s that, though admittedly, anti-vaxxers can come up with new lame excuses faster than COVID can spin off a variant.

In this context, the success of the Novavax vaccine should be A1 news. The recent results confirm that it has roughly the same efficacy as the two authorized mRNA vaccines, with the added benefit of being based on an older, more familiar science. The protein-subunit approach used by Novavax was first implemented for the hepatitis B vaccine, which has been used in the U.S. since 1986. The pertussis vaccine, which is required for almost all children in U.S. public schools, is also made this way.

Not sure whether this new vaccine gives you those cool skin-magnetizing superpowers and that insatiable urge to genuflect to Bill Gates anytime you pass a G5 tower, but you can’t have everything.

Chris Rock clip 😁

Thank you for your response, RobinG, but please elaborate. How is my understanding “dated”? Isn’t it a fact that in Saudi Arabia that women are just now getting the right to drive automobiles? It is my understanding that in practically every Arab country, the leadership is heavily-male dominated and women are denigrated. Please tell me where I am wrong.

Yet another absurd and misogynistic response. Are you a recent arrival from Afghanistan? If so, you will have to radically update your viewpoints as this is a free and open country. Of course, you are always free to return to, or emigrate to, Afghanistan where the subjugation of women is standard and common place. Enjoy.

“The hysteria you guys inflicted on us has created mass misery.”

YOU guys, you say? Check to see how many COVID posts I submitted that weren’t in response to someone claiming that Pfizer and Bill Gates and the beagle-torturer weren’t in cahoots to actively kill us all, or some other dark rumour about what the vaccines were going to turn us into. Spoiler alert: you’ll be looking a while because I’m not the one who feels the need to interrupt every thread with an update on how unnecessary the vaccines are.

But you think I — or maybe the 3-4 other people who bother to push back on all that — are the ones who need to shut up? No problem — get the loons I’m responding to to shut up. The rest will follow. My take has consistently been, for months now, that the COVID death toll, which in large parts of the world never even made it into the single-digit percentage range as far as CFR goes, became pretty much a non-issue once the vaccines were rolled out. It was never as trivial as to make it just-another-flu, and that was a lie worth rebutting and I make no apologies for helping to do that. But for the vaxxed who take basic precautions, this has indeed morphed into pretty much just-a-flu (in terms of death tolls) and I’ve said that repeatedly.

On the contrary, since the vaccines came out, on basically every score it has been the anti-vaxxers doing the dying, doing the bed-wetting, doing the misery dance. Oh, the vaccines have “failed” because they don’t stop infections completely (just whacks them down by a factor of six or so). And then there’s that mass die-off this winter that they are really really really looking forward to.

But you want to tell me I’m the one spreading mass misery? Get lost.

And today your brother is a proud woman!

Novavax has applied for Emergency Use Authorization, they just announced. Do you know if their technology is the same as for Sputnik and Sinovac? If so, they sure took their time, in comparison.

My knowledge is personal, not statistical, so I won’t make claims that engender typical Unzer snide blowback. Broadly, you don’t need to drive a car to earn an MD or PhD.

I know Arab women who hold senior government positions (in their own country). I’m one degree from knowing countless female medical professionals, i.e. doctors and pharmacists (in their own countries). You write, “…the leadership is heavily-male dominated…” As it is here, according to feminist types. Denigrate is a strong word, but it’s appropriate for some of the commenters on this website, and I doubt that they’re Arabs, lol.

Again, tell me where the smart people to run this country to come from if smart women aren’t having them? From Shaniqua? From Guadelupe? Have you an answer?
Do women make better engineers and scientists than men? Better carpenters and plumbers? Is this society better off for having armies of female office drones interfering with productive people? Have you an answer? Nope.

Were you better educated, you’d know that female equality is an historic novelty, and that male supremacy is not some alien notion from Afghanistan. And had you eyes to see, you’d recognize that that it has been a disaster for the West. That is neither absurd nor misogynistic, simply true.

You’re just doubling, or is it quadrupling down, first in your continued defense of the indefensible Michelle Robinson “Obama,” and secondly in your defense of Monica R. McLemore.

White feminists in academia have routinely been giving failed black and Hispanic females passing grades, while flunking White men who did good work since at least the mid-1990s. I saw it first-hand.

In 1994, the two White feminists who graded my students’ English Comp finals at William Paterson College, gave two borderline hispanic girls’ finals both “9s” (the second-highest grade they gave anyone), while flunking the White man Art major who’d written the third-best essay in class (with a “6”). I looked my boss in the eye, and said, “I’m passing him.” Meanwhile, she suggested I pass a black man who wrote on a 2nd grade level, and whom even the feminists had given a failing “6.” (“I’ll leave it to you.”)

Where have you been sleeping the last 30 years?

And she commissions a completely unfair hit job on E. O. Wilson. https://t.co/dzTFtsh7bj

Scientific American has become permeated with ideology as the science evaporates. https://t.co/OTuLCd2zcO

— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) December 30, 2021

.@laurahelmuth Insightful? It's ignorant, muddled, and tendentious. https://t.co/GGO5jhbj4W

— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) December 30, 2021

Scientific American does an asinine hit job on E. O. Wilson, calling him a racist https://t.co/M2O0kucYUM

— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) December 30, 2021

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/12/30/scientific-american-does-an-asinine-hit-job-on-e-o-wilson-calling-him-a-racist/

I’m listening to Dr Malone’s 3 hour interview with Joe Rogan right now. YOU are a disgrace.

Maybe the wind is shifting. Enough, and these wokesters will be luffing. An interview with this author was on CSPAN tonight.

Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon argued that journalism, once a blue-collar profession, is now largely a profession for elites who push radical ideas and are out of touch with mainstream Americans. This virtual event was hosted by the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.

… this is a free and open country

Not particularly true (where’s my freedom of association?), but what you are celebrating has sterilized our high achieving women, so it doesn’t look like much to gloat about.

Yeah, the land of Foucault and Derrida seem pretty anxious to cancel their past and people to usher in some newness.

Thanks for that — I erroneously claimed earlier that the Novavax had gotten full FDA authorization, but you’re right, it’s actually only at the Emergency Use Authorization stage. Anyway, Novavax has a special adjuvenant as its secret sauce, so in that sense it will be different than the Chinese/Russian versions — formulated from some kind of soapbark from some rare Chilean tree, which has all sorts of interesting journalistic angles. Either that, or someone from their board is sleeping with some editor at the TheAtlantic, or something like that, based on the publicity they’re getting:

It is often said that vaccines are one of the most successful public-health interventions in human history. They are also bad business propositions. Two-thirds of vaccines fail in clinical trials. Once approved, they are often less profitable than drugs for cancer or rare diseases. In 2004, just five companies were manufacturing vaccines for Americans, down from 26 in 1967….

Adjuvants had undergone a renaissance, and [soapbark-based] QS-21 was its poster child. A crude saponin extract had been used in veterinary vaccines since the 1950s, but it was too toxic for humans, causing red blood cells to burst. In the 1990s, a researcher named Charlotte Kensil separated some of the 50 or so saponins in Quillaja saponaria extract, then tested them individually in mice. QS-7 was a potent adjuvant, but there wasn’t a lot of it. QS-18 proved to be the most toxic. QS-21 was relatively mild and generated both an antibody and a T-cell response.

health and illness in populations without any attention to the context in which these distributions occur.

Whether we like it or not, there is some truth to that. Where I live, we don’t have tsetse flies or Onchocerca volvulus, so we don’t get sleeping sickness or river blindness. Life expectancy, in Darwin’s time, and even 70 years ago, was a lot less for fishermen and miners, who also were maimed more often, than today. You won’t find many fishermen or miners among nomadic tribes.
Nothing is as simple as it seems.

some rare Chilean tree

OMG, full circle…..we’re back to E. O. and the plea for biodiversity. To me, this seems the heart of much left vs. right (for lack of any better descriptive) animosity: those that roll their eyes at the Spotted Owl vs. those who see it as barometer of the health of an ecosystem. I’ve always been in the E. O. camp, the web of life, interdependence. I still believe, but in recent years I’ve reflected more on how cruel and scary that web can be. Wilson was very bold to propose that Half might be enough.

Meanwhile, over at Edward Dutton’s “On Edward O. Wilson,” (or is it here?) there’s a typical Men of Unz Club assertion that women were better left uneducated. So, no scientists like Charlotte Kensil for them!

It’s not worth losing millions of bright children to female careerism in order to get a few Charlotte Kensils.

Good to see a thermodynamics joke worked into a thread now and again…

You’re just doubling, or is it quadrupling down, first in your continued defense of the indefensible Michelle Robinson “Obama,” and secondly in your defense of Monica R. McLemore.

My defense of McLemore is to say that she passed her board certification examinations, so she’s likely adequate for those tasks. Unless you fancy your bad writing teachers have infiltrated state licensing boards and have the identifying information on the authors of the examinations they’re grading, your point is irrelevant. BTW, McLemore would have taken her licensing examinations ca. 1992. Grading a nursing examination is going to be a great deal less subjective than grading a writing assignment. You might give some thought to the proposition that they stuck it to you because they just don’t like you.

Michelle Obama’s married name is Obama and her husband’s name is Obama; no point in indulging in waste-of-time speculation about his parentage as it’s all rubbish. Her occupational life has been misbegotten because people were willing to pay her astonishing sums to spin her wheels, in part as institutional decoration and in part as laundered bribes to her husband. That’s a sweet deal very few people of any description receive. Had the ordinary sorting methods applied to her, she’d have gone to different schools (say, Chicago Circle), likely entered some other occupation than law, or entered a small partnership and done what rank and file lawyers do: real estate closings, criminal defense in municipal court, simple estate practice, slip-and-fall cases, etc.

I’ve read the thesis. It’s comprehensible and unremarkable. Hitchens was lying to amuse himself and you’re lying because you’re a fanatic.