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Special Episode: Interview with Stuart Ritchie on Hunter Gatherers in the 21st Century, covid skeptics, and bad science

Decoding the Gurus

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I've Never Seen an Exclamation Mark in a Scientific Paper Before

Scientists were trying to give you the impression it's quite mad to believe in the lablique hypothesis. I don't think all the blame for that letter being blown up into a big controversy can be laid at the feat of other people, like journalists and internet guros or so on. And yes, scientists should be above all that and entirely responsive to all the sort of cut and thrust of the politics and so on. But ifs perhaps missing the mountain for the mole hill in looking at that rather. Just like i agree with you about the lancelili but it's not an ideal context. You know much more about this than i do, but i don't have any position on

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