I'm on my second read-though of PZ and the math is straight forward enough that even an Evolutionary Biologist should be able to understand it. Natural Selection is so dead-on-arrival that it wasn't even alive as a working hypothesis. Could something else drive Evolution? Sure, but the safe zone of "there is no God" is well and truly broken.
I suspect that there is also a significant push-back from the Upton Sinclair enjoyers within or adjacent to the field.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Absolutely. The inability to comprehend the concept of an average is eye-opening. A simple mean value. It’s remarkable to consider how much time, money, and resources were wasted. Not just propping up fake narrative. That a cadre that vapid were granted “credibility”. I suspect the vast majority have no idea how epistemologically hollow academia is.
A majority inside it are too dumb to see it either.
I knew my areas [area studies, history, langauge] is full of fake word fake idea huffers. The sciences are worse, because they pretend to have math backing. Basically 0 of my cohort have that illusion.
A Japanese professor still has to know enough to teach it and not make factual mistakes.
I'm on my second read-though of PZ and the math is straight forward enough that even an Evolutionary Biologist should be able to understand it. Natural Selection is so dead-on-arrival that it wasn't even alive as a working hypothesis. Could something else drive Evolution? Sure, but the safe zone of "there is no God" is well and truly broken.
I suspect that there is also a significant push-back from the Upton Sinclair enjoyers within or adjacent to the field.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Absolutely. The inability to comprehend the concept of an average is eye-opening. A simple mean value. It’s remarkable to consider how much time, money, and resources were wasted. Not just propping up fake narrative. That a cadre that vapid were granted “credibility”. I suspect the vast majority have no idea how epistemologically hollow academia is.
A majority inside it are too dumb to see it either.
I knew my areas [area studies, history, langauge] is full of fake word fake idea huffers. The sciences are worse, because they pretend to have math backing. Basically 0 of my cohort have that illusion.
A Japanese professor still has to know enough to teach it and not make factual mistakes.