RT @sapinker: Is Biology Allowed to Explain Anything? Even a sex difference as obvious as throwing strength? Robert Deaner & Mike Lombardo:…

How do the “BIG PHARMA IS HIDING THE CURE TO CANCER” bros square that retarded idea with Moderna’s share price exploding 176% in one day after announcing cancer vaccine results Seems like big pharma actually has a pretty massive incentive to cure cancer, actually

Air travel is fundamentally a different service in the age of @Starlink. What I’m paying for is an Internet Cafe in the sky. Why would I pay for 6 hours at a Net Cafe without Internet? It’s more important than a bed. If Starlink is advertised and not working it’s kidnapping.

The sex difference in throwing is one of the largest behavioral sex differences ever measured. While training matters, the disparity appears to be mostly biological. Yet Anne Fausto-Sterling argues in favor of pure socialization while ignoring a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Few scholars claim to deny biology outright, with most agreeing that nature and nurture interact. In practice, however, they routinely reject biological explanations in favor of comparatively implausible environmental ones. They pay lip service to biology, but never actually allow it to explain anything. This new long read by professors Robert Deaner and Mike Lombardo examines the science of throwing, hunting, and combat, and ask a simple question: What evidence would actually be allowed to count as evidence for an innate sex difference? Read the free article on @RealLastStand below. 🔗realityslaststand.com/p/thro…

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism. As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

More people died in France this year from not having air conditioning (7,300) than American deaths from mass shootings in all of recorded U.S. history (1,741).😬

So I looked into this a little more, and turns out voters approved a 1:1 match, then city council “amended” it to a 6:1 match

Elon is right 💯

Elon basically predicted the next revolution in medicine: “You can effectively think of the future of medicine as being digital” Much of traditional drug discovery has involved finding or screening molecules, testing them, and figuring out what they can do Synthetic RNA starts changing that model From discovering drugs by accident → programming treatments like software If we can understand exactly what biological instructions need to be written into RNA, medicine increasingly becomes something we can design for a specific problem And once we know what to program into synthetic RNA: “You can basically, cure almost anything” Medicine is becoming programmable

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