Interview with Virginia Heffernan on Edge, the dangers of Scientism, & Culture Wars
Decoding the Gurus
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Population Genetics
i think within the disciplines, within the research literature, that everything has to be taken carefully and and looked critically, mathologically. But i think those uses of icu, of population genetics and so on, within t disciplines is often valid, interesting and a kind of informative in useful ways. They tend not to make much contact with how those things are interpreted in the culture. And also, there's this middle earth quality to talking to actual irish people,. as an irish american, where you say, my name is heffernan, and they say, oh, from up the hill, hhillgodness. It'sa it is middle earth. It's the
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