Tag: human evolution
White Fragility — A Free Pass for Scientists?
“White Fragility” is the phrase of the moment. It refers to an unwillingness on the part of white people to admit “complicity” with racism.
Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine
It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers.
A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution
Perhaps in ten years we’ll be having this conversation again — and perhaps at that time the Smithsonian Institution will give us all a more objective analysis of the evidence.
#2 of Our Top Stories of 2019: BIO-Complexity Paper Shows We Could Have Come from Two
New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports.
New BIO-Complexity Paper: We Could Have Come from Two
New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports.