🧵 View Thread
🧵 Thread (30 tweets)
The David Reich book so far is (i) great science, and (ii) hilariously sad sociology of science Kind of remarkable he was able to publish this honestly, even with all of the strained caveating and encomiums to bien pensant views re: diversity https://t.co/Totdu8YRv3
Just say it. "European genetic history is the story of one discrete population after another raping and murdering their way across the continent." Ignoring the wickedness of your ancestors' successful strategy doesn't make it less bad or less successful Aaarghh
No mention of the adult lactase expression hypothesis here. Too hot for publication? It was fine ten years ago in _The 10,000 Year Explosion_ 🤔 https://t.co/MPVSaqaQOx
Anyway, black chunk of each pie chart is population fraction with Steppe (read: PIE, or Aryan if you're nasty) ancestry Probably a nice consensual flow of ideas with minimal migration amirite? Per @tylercowen, when reading controversial stuff **watch the figures and tables** https://t.co/sMnR8y1HXn
Hahahaha oh boy with this lead-in can we guess whats coming next?????? https://t.co/7393dpPWMa
"it is always a bad idea to ignore barbarians" yes I'm confident missing native Y chromosome carriers the world over would back you up on this point https://t.co/m5acqRWj3Y
trust me guys you wanna just take the L and move on here https://t.co/RYUGBDd8A8
back to cool findings, this is Bananas https://t.co/wZ0IwFkFvS
Also very cool The future is here https://t.co/LSwK4JPtEl
rent-seeking? https://t.co/MLlwtQSaJT
There are pages and pages of this Mildly curious if Tribal Authorities are able to block members from contributing of their own volition https://t.co/b7fzgYVZbf
Holy shit apparently they are in practice This chapter is a wild ride in an unexpected direction and the author is being both careful and bold in his editorial about his attempts to ethically collect Native American genetic data Props https://t.co/rMUZsZ9QV0
Also holy shit Apparently Greenberg was right How are the linguists taking this Has anyone sought comment from Lyle Campbell https://t.co/ZhFS1LMvGQ
Conclusion of the chapter is that Native Americans . . . were probably not That's gonna go over like a lead balloon Brave work but geneticists will never get tribal consent from anyone ever again https://t.co/nZbN2fhWgD
On to East Asia. This on Japan is interesting--had expected a larger steppe presence based on some conversations with a Turkish classmate who alleged linguistic and cultural (eg, horse-and-bow samurai) traces to Yayoi https://t.co/dvNo9Udst5
Oh my God I was not expecting this. Bold move, let's see how it plays out https://t.co/lT3skgqzjt
popcorn dot gif this is either going to be pablum or crack https://t.co/9YIemlMcCT
content for every flavor of activist 😎 https://t.co/ydwD8ih9rs
ok wow now he's getting into it for real https://t.co/VrCqs4UDtg
Eeesh, this poor guy. https://t.co/PtKthY90bY
Actually no. Wow. He's engaging, shiny and chrome and impeccably polite. https://t.co/cL6ofdJnXq
"Compared to most academics" Bernie Sanders is Strom Thurmond best fella @razibkhan getting a shout out as a wicked right winger lolsigh He probably knows his audience. I imagine it's humanities professors? https://t.co/eS4PCRX2CO
Ahhhhhhh,, and now he's starting shit. The last section was a carefully-worded cri de coeur to the left to not to let HBD types own the space geneticists are making. Here he's firing right. It reads lazy. :/ "You believe bad things" vs "Here's evidence you're wrong" https://t.co/ABuKIUdhn1
The politics of this are interesting. I think this is the modal preference, but most people who have political views about it see their outgroup as doing their best to undermine it! IIRC this is nearly identical to one of Curtis Yarvin's statements a year or two back. https://t.co/4YMhL6a6Lq
It's probably worth noting he's coming at this not as a leftist ideologue, at least not in the usual sense. Example: this paragraph probably gets him shitcanned in the public sector. https://t.co/Ow35AUAVqi
Back to science! Super looking forward to this. Time to Resolve some Questions https://t.co/4NBjbkQ86s
Ok I'm through. Superb on object-level content, get it for that alone. Also fascinating as a case study in what a world-class researcher is permitted to say today, to whom, and how he manages. Recommend reading and imaging what parts you could openly write, safely. /thread