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This story is tailor-made for Brian Dunning of Skeptoid to follow up on. He did jail time for something similar (apps he wrote for customers directed the add revenue to him instead of the customer) https://skepchick.org/2014/08/brian-dunning-sentenced-to-15-months-in-… I'm a big fan of his podcast and I'm sure he understands what happened better than most. skeptoid dot com

Don't believe the clickbait titles. It's nothing earth shattering or unexpected. From Skepchick: "This study also can’t speak to the frequency of female hunters: “80%” is a binary number, meaning that it only tells us that at some point 80% of these societies showed evidence that yeah, women here actively track, locate, and kill animals for sustenance. It doesn’t mean they did a greater or even equal amount of hunting as men. It only supports what seems to have become a pretty well-accepted fact: many modern hunter-gatherer societies, and probably many ancient ones, don’t or didn’t have strict gender roles that would forbid an able-bodied person from doing whatever they can do to help the health and safety of the larger community. " https://skepchick.org/2023/06/did-a-new-study-debunk-man-the-hunter-no…

It's the classic paradox -- tolerance (i.e. free speech) doesn't mean we have to tolerate those who are intolerant. See Karl Popper. https://skepchick.org/2017/08/popper-and-the-paradox-of-tolerance/ This is not a difficult concept, but many libertarians and conservatives seem to have trouble with it. And that includes many techbros too.

Atheist blogger Rebecca Watson has a more personal take on this, since Dawkins and Epstein were conspiring against her in the emails: Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are https://skepchick.org/2026/02/epstein-files-reveal-how-pathetic-richar… > my name was in the first Epstein document drop because back in 2011 I criticized physicist Lawrence Krauss for defending his “friend” Jeffrey Epstein, years after Epstein was revealed to be a pedophile running a sex trafficking ring. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Krauss immediately forwarded my critical emails to Epstein The second email drop reveals Dawkins later joins this attack on her, in order to defend Knauss and Epstein.

Dunning-Kruger isn't what you think it is[1] [1] https://skepchick.org/2020/10/the-dunning-kruger-effect-misunderstood-…

Rebecca Watson wrote about them a week ago: https://skepchick.org/2025/02/the-rationalist-death-cult-spreading-may…

Sadly, this is what Corporate America ultimately lobbied hard for this and the CDC has caved to them. I'm sure this is a move to exploit workers even more, causing more preventable permanant sickness (Long COVID) and deaths as a result. [1] [2] [1] https://skepchick.org/2024/02/the-cdc-gives-up-on-covid-19/ [2] https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/112021781878554992

I feel fine ignoring Ms Hossenfelder's warmed-over second-hand bothsidesism. IDK why you are attached to it. But if you are, I fully expect you to also pore over what came out in it wake (I'm, replying now when it's in) https://skepchick.org/2023/05/physicist-sabine-hossenfelder-screws-up-… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Kau7bO3Fw

I'm so happy to be a Namecheap customer right now. Contrast their behavior with Go Daddy who will turn over data of people who dare complain: https://skepchick.org/2014/04/godaddy-released-my-personal-information…

http://skepchick.org/2016/10/a-response-to-jordan-peterson/ Do his words there count as "not some paraphrased nonsense"?

http://skepchick.org/2014/01/grantland/ Uses of the Word “Mistake:” 15 Uses of the Word “Mistake” in Reference to Actions on the Part of Grantland Writers & Editors: 14 Uses of the Word “Mistake” in Reference to the Actions of the Outraged: 1 Compliments Given to Grantland Writers & Editors: 12 Manic Pixie Dreamgirl-Esque Words Used to Describe the Late Dr. V: 5 Total Sentences: 214 Sentences Mostly About Dr. V: 9 Mentions of the Motivations and Feelings of Grantland Writers & Editors: 23 Mentions of the Mean Things Others Have Done: 17 Mentions of the Sad Feelings of Grantland Writers & Editors: 9 Mentions of the Sad Feelings of Dr. V’s Family & Friends: 1 Mentions of Dr. V’s Feelings, Any Kind: 0 Instances of “Apolog[y/ize]:” 3 Instances of “Sorry”: 1 Instances of the Word “Sorry” Directed at Anyone But Caleb Hannan: 0

Just to add a bit more fuel to the fire, while a reasonable skepticism should always be well, reasonable, I think it takes a lot of chutzpah to so directly out and out call this fake given the sparsity of the argument as it is. Compare this to skepticism over ElevatorGate. FWIW, here's a woman at skepchick expressing doubt that Leo even exists: http://skepchick.org/2012/10/leo-traynor-anti-semitism-and-the-sticky-…

most comic book artists and writers are male, most readers are male, a big chunk are teens, and males like pretty/nude/curvaceous females, most teen males likes big breasts and many teen females want to have big breasts The TV show Mad Men is set in the early 1960s USA, when the same thing could be said of the professional world. "Everyone who works here is men, our clients are men, our customers are men" etc. And yet there was a lot of discrimination and sexism then. And things have changed (in the professional business world) then. the college/PC/lesbian/feminist litmob doesn't care about that, then it's not talked about Sure they do. Here's a series of blog posts about how twilight has terrible characters. http://skepchick.org/2011/11/twilight-breaking-wind/

I was a physics teacher in Australia and the UK from 2015 to 2021. I wrote a comment about teaching in a boys' school yesterday, but most of my career was spent in girls' schools, due partly to the Vogonic culture of the NSW Department of Education and Training. There were many 'get girls into STEM' initiatives, and they all felt very tokenistic and superficial. They were science-themed, but none of them got at the guts of STEM. In Australia, physics - in the schools that offer it - is taught by chemistry or biology teachers who've been given a physics textbook. In the private boys' schools, there's a cadre of actual physicists, but they're old men on the verge of retirement; students in government schools, systemic Catholic schools and private girls' schools get a very un-mathematical physics education, if their school offers a specialised physics course at all. The end result of this is the propagation of a very misleading view of STEM to girls. All the high-paying STEM jobs are in those fields that have a rigorous mathematical formalism - physics, computer science, engineering - but our STEM outreach programs ended up pushing girls towards 'soft science' careers in biology. I understand that there are now so many bio lab workers in the UK that they're now on minimum wage. If we really want to encourage women and girls to take up high-paying STEM careers, we need to be demonstrating and teaching the cognitive styles that underlie success in mathematics. At the moment,…

Wow. That license asserts that Taiwan is part of China, requires you to “respect social ethics and moral standards”. It also forbids several specific uses, and they’re not what you might think on a naive reading of the English translation. When the CCP says “terrorism”, they’re justifying their genocidal policies towards ethnic and religious minorities https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-break-their-… When the CCP says “misinformation”, they’re rewriting history to ignore Tiananmen Square. https://www.britannica.com/event/Tiananmen-Square-incident When the CCP says “national security”, they condemning people like Naomi Wu who don’t fit cleanly into their worldview https://skepchick.org/2023/08/maker-naomi-wu-is-silenced-by-chinese-au… Quotes: > “Laws and Regulations” refers to the laws and administrative regulations of the mainland of the People's Republic of China (for the purposes of this Agreement only, excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). > 1) Your use of the Yi Series Models must comply with the Laws and Regulations as well as applicable legal requirements of other countries/regions, and respect social ethics and moral standards, including but not limited to, not using the Yi Series Models for purposes prohibited by Laws and Regulations as well as applicable legal requirements of other countries/regions, such as harming national security, promoting…

https://web.archive.org/web/20190929045043/https:/twitter.com/RichardD… https://web.archive.org/web/20190929094120if_/https://twitter.com/saee… But I don't really care about his views on biological genders, but what relevant point did he have when writing this message down in the blog post?: https://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/ He's become a political agitator, and increasingly rarely a scientist. This is not meant to say "stick to science", but if he wants to be political, I'm going to criticize is politics, because they suck and he does deserve scorn for them. Maybe as an old guy don't tell a woman that her experience is wrong. I don't think that this is a radical "post-modernist" idea.