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Burns posted:Isnt he also the lizard guy? That's David Icke. When all famous people were lizards due to freezing the video of them from an analogue signal, slightly made their faces distort.
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I mostly remember Dawkins and the other big atheists becoming rabidly anti muslim after 9/11 broke their brains I'm sure he'll eventually come around to endorsing traditional judeo-christian values to combat the trans menace
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Apr 30, 2024 20:49
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he's going to hogwarts
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Apr 30, 2024 20:58
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Well death rates during delivery did jump when women started going into hospitals for them. germ theory is certainly one major pillar, but theres also men pushing out midwives and trying to turn the field into a "legit" academic science. like what centuries of knowledge and experience lost because men wouldnt stop and ask
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Apr 30, 2024 20:59
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goatface posted:Dawkins is a endlessly smug twat who is incredibly certain about his intellectual superiority in every situation. He has been for decades. Dawkins was Neil deGrasse Tyson before Neil deGrasse Tyson was Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:00
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Durf posted:I mostly remember Dawkins and the other big atheists becoming rabidly anti muslim after 9/11 broke their brains https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1018933359978909696
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Apr 30, 2024 21:01
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Saw Dawkins in London last night. His sign didn't say "I'm a biologist" or "I'm a published author" but "I'm a fat bitch". What could this mean?
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Apr 30, 2024 21:04
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say what you will but anywhere offering me free crackers and wine is fine by me! - richard dawkins, lifelong committed atheist
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Apr 30, 2024 21:05
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shiksa posted:say what you will but anywhere offering me free crackers and wine is fine by me! Go to a gurdwara, the food's way better.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:13
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Please only refer to Richard Dawkins as his preferred name; Dick Dorkins.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:20
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Totbot posted:Please only refer to Richard Dawkins as his preferred name; Dick Dorkins. I thought he changed his name to Eugene Icksfan a few years ago
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Apr 30, 2024 21:26
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Megillah Gorilla posted:All British intellectuals seem to be getting on the TERF train. Even the ones I thought were otherwise good people are either "Rowling was right" or The only good famous Brit was Terry Pratchett. His estate slammed people for claiming he'd be on board with transphobia, so even dead he's better than these shitbirds
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Apr 30, 2024 21:27
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which is as good as being one.
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what a nerd, the adhan is so cool sounding
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Apr 30, 2024 21:28
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Totbot posted:Please only refer to Richard Dawkins as his preferred name; Dick Dorkins. Dick Dock, and you don't stop
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Apr 30, 2024 21:31
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Dawkins wrote very well about evolutionary biology. Those books are still very good. Like a lot of experts in a specific field though, he doesn't seem to realize he's not smart about other things but speaks just as confidently. And he's a grumpy old bigot yeah
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Apr 30, 2024 21:33
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are they still good books? isnt any biological science going to have a halflife of knowledge and facts thats only a decade or two?
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Apr 30, 2024 21:35
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lol such thin skin
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Having experienced both I prefer church bells but Jesus Christ what a dogwhistle.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:37
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i thought dick dawkins died
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Apr 30, 2024 21:39
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Yeah I learn most things about my job from random accounts I follow on Twitter. But sometimes they post news I don't like and that makes me have bad thoughts so I block them. Now give me my 50 billion bonus!
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Cthulu Carl posted:Technology Connections rippin' into this jabroni like he's a simmerstat he bought two of.
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Beer Gay So What posted:its so extremely bizzare seeing as they won that standardization battle. More wondering if government subsidy for fast chargers dried up. Leveraged the funding for NACS to dump into the cybbrtrvkk, and now has nothing to complete the charging port project with 
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Well death rates during delivery did jump when women started going into hospitals for them. What why are we wasting all this time and effort cleaning tools, these hygiene and safety regulations are killing innovation and efficiency in the hospital sector. Move fast, break things for the win! Hospital on Mars 2030!!!
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PhazonLink posted:are they still good books? Cutting edge stuff for biologists to know sure, but great detailed explanations of the principles of natural selection are effectively timeless You might find a specific example of a bird or something that we've learned more about I guess
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Well death rates during delivery did jump when women started going into hospitals for them. The 'Semmelweis the tormented genius' thing is basically a "Columbus discovered the earth was round" myth. He believed something that was obviously false, got mythologized, and pop culture assigned modern beliefs instead of the ones they actually held because it makes a better story to treat them as martyrs. People say he was talking about childbed fever being contagious, but Semmelweis' actual belief was specifically that childbed fever was not contagious ("Childbed fever is not a contagious disease. A contagious disease is one that produces the contagion by which the disease is spread. This contagion brings about only the same disease in other individuals. . . .Smallpox causes only smallpox and no other disease. . . . Childbed fever is different”) So his argument was 'childbed fever is ONLY caused by pieces of corpses ('cadaverous particles') getting into women - so doctors who do dissections of cadavers are the only way to spread it'. To which the medical establishment sensibly responded 'so why do we also see this disease in hospitals that don't do dissections, then?' To which his response was 'uuuuuuuuuuuuh?' And then they said 'well, this disease is known to come in outbreaks where a bunch of people get it and then nobody gets it, so we really need a bigger sample to prove anything, can we have your data'? In response, Semmelweis immediately and promptly... didn't publish any additional data for FOURTEEN YEARS. And during that time, there was another outbreak of childbed fever... in his handwashing ward. Having had his 'no corpse hands = no fever' theory disproven, Semmelweis revised his theory from 'cadaverous particles' being 'pieces of corpses', to 'things that can be produced inside living people as well', and blamed a lady on the same floor who had uterine cancer (given his lack of tact, probably with some comment like 'your poison womb is making the ICU too drat crowded'). But was he the first person to suggest sterilization of tools using boiling water? No, that goes back to before Hippocrates (you know the guy from the Oath). How about 'hey maybe bad stuff on people's hands causes childbed fever'? Not the first person there either. James Young Simpson published a paper about that a decade earlier. Simpson also made several other important improvements in obstetrics, like incorporating midwives into hospitals, inventing safe forceps, and huffing random chemicals until he tried chloroform, it got him high as balls, and he decided to use it to help reduce pain in childbirth. That last one isn't a comic exaggeration, we have the report, he got a bunch of friends together and they just snorted random drugs around his dinnertable until they found one that worked. Then once they realized chloroform got you high, they passed the bottle around until they ran out. quote:In January 1847 Simpson gained for the Edinburgh Medical School the proud distinction of being the scene of the first use of anæsthetics in obstetric practice. His acute mind, however, soon perceived the shortcomings of ether, and he could not rest satisfied until he had discovered something better to take its place. To this end he and his two assistants, Dr. George Keith and Dr. Matthews Duncan, night after night, spent hours in the dining-room of No. 52 Queen Street inhaling substance after substance. All the scientific curiosities were unearthed from the laboratories of chemists and tested; the enthusiastic invigorators sitting round the dining table and inhaling the drugs from tumblers and saucers, much we can imagine, to the alarm of the rest of the household. As a coda, realizing that some people might be reluctant to use this important medication for religious/moral/ethical reasons, Simpson decided to drum up publicity first, so patients would be pushing their doctors and surgeons for it. He published a bunch of pamphlets before doctors even had it, had discussion with major religious leaders, and ended up making a linchpin of his messaging about anesthetics in surgery the quote from Genesis "and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam , and he slept ; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof." Which basically sealed the deal, to the point where the launch was so smooth that some historians questioned whether there could ever possibly been any backlash against an obviously-useful medication (though notably they were asking that pre-covid). So TL;DR, Semmelweis was both late and wrong, but the IFL Science crowd doesn't let that get in the way of a good story. Also, if you want to be a world-renowned surgeon, do drugs. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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Rubber Chicken posted:Cutting edge stuff for biologists to know sure, but great detailed explanations of the principles of natural selection are effectively timeless Yeah funnily the more scholarly texts probably get outdated faster than the more pop sci 'why evolution is true' stuff. Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World is still super relevant imo despite coming out in 1995. He talks about some astronomy stuff that has been well solved but that's not the main point of the book.
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PhazonLink posted:are they still good books? I cited a paper from 1888 in my dissertation. Observations don't go out of date, just interpretations.
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Tiny Timbs posted:i thought dick dawkins died I thought the same thing a few years back but I always got Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins confused.
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carrionman posted:The only good famous Brit was Terry Pratchett. His estate slammed people for claiming he'd be on board with transphobia, so even dead he's better than these shitbirds Pratchett wrote whole books about people being able to express their true gender.
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kazil posted:lol such thin skin  What a petty rear end bitch.
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frozen fruit, except when i dont like it. - literally every single frozen fruit piece of shitever, also free speech on a private platform like jesus loving christ how are they this loving stupid
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kazil posted:lol such thin skin
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kazil posted:lol such thin skin FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST
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NmareBfly posted:Yeah funnily the more scholarly texts probably get outdated faster than the more pop sci 'why evolution is true' stuff. Is it demons??
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Apr 30, 2024 22:48
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kazil posted:lol such thin skin isn't that exactly who you would want to follow
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Apr 30, 2024 22:50
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Tbf freedom of speech doesn't mean "a right to be followed by this one guy specifically"
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adnam posted:oh come on him too? Lol since loving when
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For the longest time I got Richard Feynman confused with Dawkins for some reason. I guess both Richard scientists. But Feynman died like 37 years ago.
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priznat posted:For the longest time I got Richard Feynman confused with Dawkins for some reason. I guess both Richard scientists. But Feynman died like 37 years ago. Feynman is the cool sexpest who plays bongos and picks locks.
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