John Podesta’s Friend, Who ‘Debunked’ Pizzagate, Arrested for Raping Toddlers

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/john-podestas-friend-who-debunked-pizzagate-arrested-for-raping-toddlers/

No evidence screen time is negative for children’s cognitive development and well-being: Oxford Study

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/news/no-evidence-screen-time-is-negative-for-childrens-cognitive-development-and-well-being-oxford-study/

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#WellBeing #Children #screen #cognition
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I am creating a telegram chat for White men and women to improve themselves. White Self Help will make you more attractive, and desirable for marriage and family. We will save the West and increase White Birth Rates.

Is race a social construct cooked up to justify the transatlantic slave trade?

Review of court cases + censuses + naturalization laws concerning the Whiteness of various groups finds:
-Italians, Irish, non-Anglo Euros always considered white; their naturalization was campaigned against on grounds of non-WASP status rather than non-White status.
-various middle eastern groups mostly ruled to be non-white
https://not-equal.org/content/pdf/misc/Becoming_White_Thesis_Revisited.pdf

Some other pieces from our guys on the subject:
- https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/race-and-the-ancients
- https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/race-ethnicity-and-racism-in-greco-roman-society/

Fuerst's book on the existence of race contains some good discussion on historical usage of the concept:
https://philpapers.org/archive/FUETNO.pdf

Some inconvenient quotes:
-1778: King Louis XVI of France forbids all his white subjects to “contract marriage with blacks, mulattoes or other people of colour”:
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1724178897602859038
-Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate discusses human biodiversity - that is innate differences between the races in mind and body:
https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/julian_apostate_galileans_1_text.htm?fbclid=IwAR19Gt_p67QA9kFqxKBrsSbFAkvTUMWX8S2m6Ezji9fBQ0vIzFaGlZgRbRY
https://i.imgur.com/r6sFxlr.png
-Napoleon: "Had I been at Martinique, I should also have been on the side of the English [...] I am for the whites, because I am white; I have no other reason, yet that is reason good enough."
https://twitter.com/thltd_/status/1715787283431887336
-It's been proposed that Europeans became aware of themselves as such as early as the year 732:
https://twitter.com/DBlossius/status/1711614640851915190

Americans More Critical of U.S. Criminal Justice System
https://news.gallup.com/poll/544439/americans-critical-criminal-justice-system.aspx

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The violent gang crisis shaking Sweden
https://www.ft.com/content/79f0d181-bdae-4c81-a971-861ccd8d512c

Heritability, within and between groups
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/heritability-within-and-between-groups

Beware of the bots that use my username

Scientists censor themselves and each other largely for prosocial reasons, to protect reputations from public scrutiny & to protect vulnerable groups from potentially harmful scientific findings. However these harm concerns are largely based on intuitive assumptions rather than empirical evidence, and the immediate and downstream costs of censorship are rarely weighed against the supposed harms.

Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301642120

Twitter thread:
https://nitter.net/ImHardcory/status/1726694654312358041#m
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#censorship #research #bias
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Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/
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#science #trust #USA
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"The truth is that, in many cases, elite groups are genetically different from the rest of the population."

How do elite groups form?
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/how-do-elite-groups-form

Socio-Demographic Indicators, Intelligence, and Locus of Control as Predictors of Adult Financial Well-Being

General intelligence measured at age 10 predicts financial well-being at age 38.
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/5/2/11
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#intelligence #wealth #money
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Hype in Science: An analysis of 2,300,000 abstracts from scientific papers shows that scientists are increasingly hyping their findings.

Presence and consequences of positive words in scientific abstracts
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04864-6

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"Standard deep learning models can be trained to predict race from medical images with high performance across multiple imaging modalities... We demonstrate this detection is not due to trivial proxies or imaging-related surrogate covariates for race..."
"We show that performance persists over all anatomical regions and frequency spectrum of the images."

AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(22)00063-2/fulltext
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#brain #AI #race
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Taking the human extended phenotypes seriously
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/taking-the-human-extended-phenotypes

Harvard’s Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa
https://www.amren.com/news/2023/12/harvards-shocking-admission-affirmative-action-and-critical-race-theory-killed-south-africa/

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#SouthAfrica #race #diversity #CRT #AffirmativeAction
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PISA scores continue to fall across the board among the developed nations (they have a .9 correlation with intelligence)