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The chaos in Washington has made travel planning impossible for many scientists, so the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health is allowing submission of talk abstracts until Feb 28 for the July 8-10 meeting. ISEMPH #EvMed isemph.org

Richard Lewontin in 1974 describing a human tendency that obstructs scientific progress...and much else.

Two more days for talk and workshop abstract submissions! isemph.org/Abstract-submi…

Wednesday at noon, join us for a ClubEvMed.org discussion with Dr. Paul Turke on his new book "Bringing Up Baby," the first book on Evolutionary Pediatrics. All welcome. A great group! Register now. ISEMPH #evmed HBES UM_EHAP duke.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 📷

The belief that psychiatric disorders are distinct entities with specific causes illustrates how #TacitCreationism misrepresents the nature of living systems. See my new article on the topic published last week. Nicholas Fabiano, MD Allen Frances Jerry Coyne

Not finding specific genes and brain mechanisms that cause mental disorders does not mean they are a myth, it means that the machine metaphor is incorrect. We will find the causes in dysfunctions of organically complex systems...like those that cause cancer and epilepsy.

This chart exemplifies #TacitCreationism. A century of research has viewed emotions as distinct natural kinds with specific functions. But they are not like parts of a machine. They are overlapping suites of changes that are useful in certain situations. randolphnesse.com/articles/emoti…

A search for - Sanders AOC Tucson - to find information about today’s rally finds only a few posts, most 2 days to many weeks old even on “Latest.” Fascists suppress communication to take over democracies.

Here is an insightful essay by Robert Kurzban ✡️ on the pressure to produce novel counterintuitive articles to get attention in academia. We need a name for false ones that spread fast. Perhaps "#MemeArticles" is catchy enough to spread fast. thelivingfossils.substack.com/p/its-all-acad…

Here is a post about the 1973 Rosenhan study that does not mention that the study was a fraud. In peer reviewed literature author’s are generally obligated to look up the history of a topic, on X some authors don’t seem to care about what is true. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36737877/

Yet another post on X describing dramatic research in psychology that only in passing mentions that the research has been debunked, leaving a serious misimpression. See the 2019 article in the American Psychologist. Time to give up on X. gwern.net/doc/psychology…