Professional racist Nathan Cofnas accused a Cambridge professor, Jason Arday of plagiarism, an Internet mob went after Arday, and the upshot is that Arday killed himself . It was easy for Cofnas to lead a mob because the mob already existed as an international network of supporters of eugenics and race science: neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard 's network was the subject of an investigative report by Hope…
Apparently Neil deGrasse Tyson considers Michael Shermer, a devotee of the crankiest possible brand of race pseudoscience, " someone I can claim as a friend for decades ." What is wrong with Neil deGrasse Tyson? Why is he a friend of a right-wing political activist who is not at all shy about his admiration for race pseudoscience? Although, naturally, Shermer doesn't admit to being a racist. But…
As it says in a recent Gizmodo article : ...the billionaire promotes racist, far-right political actors in the UK and Germany; most recently, he used X to spread a racist movie that villainizes immigrants called Citizen Vigilante. Musk appeared to shrug when Beddoes noted that the German political party he supports, AfD, is home to some neo-Nazis. Musk, typical far-right hypocrite, is himself an…
Conference poster --------------------------- The International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) has posted information about its 2026 annual conference including a program . I have updated my online spreadsheet to reflect the program participants. There are no surprises from the conference, although there is one surprise from a related source... There is no evidence that neo-Nazi Emil…
To commemorate the Fourth of July, I enjoy watching two movies back-to-back: first 2017's " The Post " which recounts the fight over the Washington Post's publication of the Pentagon Papers , and then 1976's " All the President's Men " which continues the chronological story of the government versus the press in the scandal called Watergate . It's bittersweet, since these movies are about the…
Bluesky screen cap of interest because it demonstrates that (a) Rutherford was recently hanging out with Harden, (b) Harden blocked my Bluesky account and (c) and the article that Rutherford links to that discusses evolutionary psychology. --------------------------------------------------------- My nine-part series " What happened to Adam Rutherford ? " was prompted by a paper Rutherford…
One of the best American presidents is Barack Obama , and this fact is what gave us degenerate freak Donald Trump. Because Trump and his loyal supporters are racists, and the reality of a good American president who is also Black - actually only half Black but America still operates on the one-drop rule - is what drives their white supremacist humiliation and thus their political project of…
Great episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about the idiot fascist Republican attempt to faschify a college, but ended up making it basically into a baseball scouting service. Rufo has - of course - promoted his bullshit via Bari Weiss' "Free Press." The Guardian made the connection between Rufo and race pseudoscience in 2024: Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to…
So many stories out now about problems with Bari Weiss and CBS News. The Ankler: “She is murdering 60 Minutes,” Scott Pelley said to his new executive producer, Nick Bilton about Bari Weiss during a meeting on Monday that might as well have been live-streamed to our esteemed media reporter class (given the speed with which the remark was summarily spread online through what appears to be several…
