nostr:npub10lnelsae3zhv6y3kz8jla2fkwjxrpws0j8vehrv54zg7tfsd3p2s4s080l which “religious belief” are you referring to? The “religious belief” that scientists should provide a methodology? No methodology has ever been provided for selecting samples into the dataset. The “religious belief” that you can’t calculate the IQ of a national population from a sample size of 19 individuals. Angola’s IQ is calculated from 19 people. The “national IQ” dataset is scientifically indefensible so if you believe in it, that belief is not scientific…

Yeah, me too, but it seems we are now inhabiting a dystopian science fiction novel

“When I recently saw a video of the buoys installed in the Rio Grande to thwart the passage of migrants, I thought it must be fake. The buoys appear to be deliberately equipped with sharp sawlike sprockets designed to slice up anyone who tries to clamber over them. “Those can’t be real,” I thought. “Even for Texas.””

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/08/you-either-see-everyone-else-as-a-human-being-or-you-dont

Cultural and Scientific Narratives Are Mutually Reinforcing: Tom Stoppard's "The Hard Problem" and Sarah Treem's "The How and the Why"

https://www.prosocial.world/posts/cultural-and-scientific-narratives-are-mutually-reinforcing