Recent interest has been Ancient North Eurasians. Their genetic relation to contemporary Europeans, Asians, and Native Americans. As well as their memetic relation to the whole world. They domesticated the dogs and Hell Hounds are a widely spread trope in myths, possibly diffusing from the ANE. Consider this a vote that you give them the Razib treatment
I don't know how to prove this is true, but it seems universally and frequently claimed by publication insiders that those old viral articles didn't actually drive meaningful traffic, so I suppose that's some evidence in support.
Substack really needs to copy more Twitter features. Need a mute/block options so I never need see any reminder that certain people exist.
I said this on another post (I think), but thanks for continuing to recommend The Horse, The Wheel, and Language. It’s great and I am glad I finally got around to reading it.
Autism did not exist until the 1930s. Any genetic markers denote susceptibility to certain kinds of environmental factors which cause a particular type of brain damage. Vaccine reactions are the most common kind.
Just because the word didn't exist doesn't mean the condition didn't. We see plenty of examples of odd humans throughout time, so it would be for you to prove that it didn't exist prior to some date.
My daughter reacted to the hep-B vaccine given to her st midnight the day she was born at the hospital in 2000, without permission and against my orders, with vaccine encephalitis. She screamed constantly and inconsolably for four days and nights. Diagnosed with autism at 20 months. It remains very difficult for her to use speech. Her IQ is normal. Before the 1930s, this never occurred. Dr. Leo Kanner, who first described it, said that its symptoms were so distinctive and unusual, that if it had existed before, someone would have described it, but no one ever had. He collaborated with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins to compile an anthology describing every childhood psychiatric condition ever known, but nothing like autism was described. No description anywhere of non-verbal children or adults with normal hearing, not raised by wolves, in ancient Rome, medieval Europe, Dickens’ London, or anywhere else. It is a specific kind of aphasic brain damage. In 1930, it was zero. In 1980 in the US, one in 10,000 (DPT). Now it’s one in thirty.
See my reply to Ryno below. Everyone in my family was healthy and normal before we were disabled by vaccine reactions. I reacted to a tetanus booster (with mercury) with both arms being paralyzed for several days, brachial plexus neuropathy, was later diagnosed with sometimes-paralyzing multiple sclerosis. My father reacted to a flu vaccine with paralysis. My daughter to the hep-B vaccine at birth with vaccine encephalitis and autism. She later reacted to the DTaP booster at 18 months with losing her only two words, and was diagnosed with autism two months later. We now see millions reacting to the Covid vaccine with myocarditis, blood clots, embolisms, inflammation in many body systems, sudden cardiac arrest, and more. Vaccines always cause inflammation to force the production of antibodies to the injected disease antigen. Many, for genetic, or, sometimes, epigenetic, reasons, mount too strong of an inflammatory response, which can be acute (encephalitis or myocarditis, etc.), or chronic (allergic or autoimmune disease). It is wise to be wary and minimize vaccines.
I see that aside from COVID substacks you read the "Concrete Conspiracy" newsletter, which claims that the "Satanic Panic" was not merely a panic but driven by an actual epidemic of Satanic ritual abuse. If you're going to believe something as debunked as vaccines being the cause of autism, I guess you might as well add that. At this point I wouldn't believe any of your claims about your family either.
I have read a lot of recent evidence that Pizzagate is real. Did you reject The Sound of Freedom as well? It doesn’t matter to me if you personally reject the fact that vaccines are the cause of autism. Do you have a baby for whom it would be relevant? Most people now realize that they do. Nothing has been “debunked,” but pharma defenders like to say it has been, to persuade the unwary to take vaccines.
I haven't seen Sound of Freedom, but belief in Pizzagate is another indication to me of someone being an inverse weathervane. You just believe in all sorts of nonsense, rather than trying to be radical in a narrow way https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/how_to_be_radichtml
What evidence do you have that what is described and linked here is not true? You’d just rather ignore it to maintain an irrational and unfounded belief that no one would do such things?
For a wide ranging American history book, I suggest "These Truths" by Jill Lepore. She looks at American history through the lens of marginalized citizens and makes no claim that her perspective is comprehensive.
She writes beautifully and puts many of our current cultural issues in an historical context. It was the best survey history book I've read in a very long time.
Recent interest has been Ancient North Eurasians. Their genetic relation to contemporary Europeans, Asians, and Native Americans. As well as their memetic relation to the whole world. They domesticated the dogs and Hell Hounds are a widely spread trope in myths, possibly diffusing from the ANE. Consider this a vote that you give them the Razib treatment
Looks like you last wrote about dogs in 2011: https://www.razib.com/wordpress/category/dogs/
This. More articles on the Ancient North Eurasians are always welcome.
https://quillette.com/2020/10/29/the-evolutionary-history-of-mans-best-friend-revealed/
https://www.razibkhan.com/p/the-five-lineages-of-holocene-dogs#details
"This Post Will Not Go: Viral Elon Musk, X and the end of tweeted articles."
Ethan doesn't realize (or is pretending not to) that most virality was bot farms which have been progressively hobbled since Elon took over.
I don't know how to prove this is true, but it seems universally and frequently claimed by publication insiders that those old viral articles didn't actually drive meaningful traffic, so I suppose that's some evidence in support.
A rather critical review of Turchin's <i>End Times</i> from a humanist perspective.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/history-fast-and-slow
Is the Roberts & Westad book mentioned above the basis for the Mel Brooks movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082517/)?
I guess what I'm asking is this: Having seen the movie by Mel Brooks, would reading the book by Roberts and Westad be time well spent?
Substack really needs to copy more Twitter features. Need a mute/block options so I never need see any reminder that certain people exist.
I said this on another post (I think), but thanks for continuing to recommend The Horse, The Wheel, and Language. It’s great and I am glad I finally got around to reading it.
That photo is gorgeous. Where is it?
it's austin in fall as imagined by midjourney :)
now I feel unsettled instead of charmed! But thanks!
Autism did not exist until the 1930s. Any genetic markers denote susceptibility to certain kinds of environmental factors which cause a particular type of brain damage. Vaccine reactions are the most common kind.
The idea that autism didn't exist until the 1930's is just plain nuts.
Just because the word didn't exist doesn't mean the condition didn't. We see plenty of examples of odd humans throughout time, so it would be for you to prove that it didn't exist prior to some date.
My daughter reacted to the hep-B vaccine given to her st midnight the day she was born at the hospital in 2000, without permission and against my orders, with vaccine encephalitis. She screamed constantly and inconsolably for four days and nights. Diagnosed with autism at 20 months. It remains very difficult for her to use speech. Her IQ is normal. Before the 1930s, this never occurred. Dr. Leo Kanner, who first described it, said that its symptoms were so distinctive and unusual, that if it had existed before, someone would have described it, but no one ever had. He collaborated with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins to compile an anthology describing every childhood psychiatric condition ever known, but nothing like autism was described. No description anywhere of non-verbal children or adults with normal hearing, not raised by wolves, in ancient Rome, medieval Europe, Dickens’ London, or anywhere else. It is a specific kind of aphasic brain damage. In 1930, it was zero. In 1980 in the US, one in 10,000 (DPT). Now it’s one in thirty.
I call bull on the "vaccine reactions".
See my reply to Ryno below. Everyone in my family was healthy and normal before we were disabled by vaccine reactions. I reacted to a tetanus booster (with mercury) with both arms being paralyzed for several days, brachial plexus neuropathy, was later diagnosed with sometimes-paralyzing multiple sclerosis. My father reacted to a flu vaccine with paralysis. My daughter to the hep-B vaccine at birth with vaccine encephalitis and autism. She later reacted to the DTaP booster at 18 months with losing her only two words, and was diagnosed with autism two months later. We now see millions reacting to the Covid vaccine with myocarditis, blood clots, embolisms, inflammation in many body systems, sudden cardiac arrest, and more. Vaccines always cause inflammation to force the production of antibodies to the injected disease antigen. Many, for genetic, or, sometimes, epigenetic, reasons, mount too strong of an inflammatory response, which can be acute (encephalitis or myocarditis, etc.), or chronic (allergic or autoimmune disease). It is wise to be wary and minimize vaccines.
I see that aside from COVID substacks you read the "Concrete Conspiracy" newsletter, which claims that the "Satanic Panic" was not merely a panic but driven by an actual epidemic of Satanic ritual abuse. If you're going to believe something as debunked as vaccines being the cause of autism, I guess you might as well add that. At this point I wouldn't believe any of your claims about your family either.
I have read a lot of recent evidence that Pizzagate is real. Did you reject The Sound of Freedom as well? It doesn’t matter to me if you personally reject the fact that vaccines are the cause of autism. Do you have a baby for whom it would be relevant? Most people now realize that they do. Nothing has been “debunked,” but pharma defenders like to say it has been, to persuade the unwary to take vaccines.
I haven't seen Sound of Freedom, but belief in Pizzagate is another indication to me of someone being an inverse weathervane. You just believe in all sorts of nonsense, rather than trying to be radical in a narrow way https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/how_to_be_radichtml
https://concreteconspiracy.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
What evidence do you have that what is described and linked here is not true? You’d just rather ignore it to maintain an irrational and unfounded belief that no one would do such things?
For a wide ranging American history book, I suggest "These Truths" by Jill Lepore. She looks at American history through the lens of marginalized citizens and makes no claim that her perspective is comprehensive.
She writes beautifully and puts many of our current cultural issues in an historical context. It was the best survey history book I've read in a very long time.
Some studies suggest, human brain has shrunk
And maybe feminized: https://theconversation.com/early-humans-had-to-become-more-feminine-before-they-could-dominate-the-planet-42952