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Archive for the ‘Pseudoscience Bollocks’ Category

This is chillingly scary: Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ – The New York Times

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/26

I’m speechless: [Wayback/Archive] https://archive.is/2026.01.24-201053/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html

Via [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Bird on Skyview: An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it’s embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.

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--jeroen

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Irrational measuring stick: The Venn Diagram of pseudoscientific nonsense – Genetic Literacy Project

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/05

[Wayback/Archive] Irrational measuring stick: The Venn Diagram of pseudoscientific nonsense – Genetic Literacy Project has some explanation on the incarnation of the below cool diagram on various incarnations of four basic sets or bollocks: Religion, Quackery, Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. The center of the diagram should not surprise anyone:

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