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Dan Samorodnitsky

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i'm an editor and science writer. i cover biology, genetics, the environment, stuff like that. my pronouns are he/him

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Cathryn Townsend's avatar Cathryn Townsend @cattownsend.bsky.social
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‘The call for retraction, made Thursday in a First Opinion published in STAT, focuses on hundreds of papers published by the late Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, who has described “the decay of European civilisation” resulting from immigration’

www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...

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one scientist turned journalist

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Julia Carrie Wong's avatar Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social
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honestly really moved by the dedication of these scientists to protect the academic record from fraudulent data that was produced to justify racism. there are so many ways to be anti fascist and this is a good one! www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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my view on these things is fairly dismal to start but the real story of the datasets behind the Bell Curve managed to slither under my considerably low expectations. very good article here detailing all the specifics

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Jon Phillips's avatar Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social
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Given the apparent cause-and-effect relationship between Ackman’s attacks on higher education and revelations of his wife’s academic misconduct, I can only assume that this think tank means that Neri Oxman blackmailed her dissertation committee, and is possibly a serial killer.

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That he can't find a job after a career of being the sharpest, most diamond-eyed writer and editor around is a genuine tragedy, a true nothing-matters-ism.

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