Actually, if you had read Razib's writing you would know that the Khazar hypothesis is not without (albeit slim) genetic evidence. The early Ashkenazim of Moravia had East Asian ancestry, for which the Khazars might have been a vector of transmission.
I say they are more guilty pleasures I enjoy re-considering than lumping them as heretics. Like a good fantasy novel they can free up my sclerotic slumbers. Currently heretics are too often seen as only as contrarian rather than allowing the choice their name suggests, and so allows us a re-framing our positions, and anyway, that framing is perhaps too religiously fraught.. I have begun a list of such reading, starting with https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/guilty-pleasures-of-an-aquatic-ape
A correction: Jaynes' work's title was The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Did you mean "to slake their thirst for rape," rather than "to state their thirst for rape?"
Ha! You missed the effect/affect error. (Razib is cursed with real editors this morning.)
i think i was intending the adverb here
Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People" would be a good addition to the list of modern heretical books.
No. It is simply antisemitic nonsense. If you have read Razib's writing you understand that Ashkenazi Jews do not have Turkic ancestry.
Actually, if you had read Razib's writing you would know that the Khazar hypothesis is not without (albeit slim) genetic evidence. The early Ashkenazim of Moravia had East Asian ancestry, for which the Khazars might have been a vector of transmission.
"Copernicus’ ... just before, as it turned out, his untimely death"
That was jarring. The dude was 70, which in that day (1543), was more than 10 years past his sell by date.
I say they are more guilty pleasures I enjoy re-considering than lumping them as heretics. Like a good fantasy novel they can free up my sclerotic slumbers. Currently heretics are too often seen as only as contrarian rather than allowing the choice their name suggests, and so allows us a re-framing our positions, and anyway, that framing is perhaps too religiously fraught.. I have begun a list of such reading, starting with https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/guilty-pleasures-of-an-aquatic-ape
Try “Revenge of the Neanderthals,” and “Chosen People From the Caucasus” and “A Culture of Critique” - plenty more heretical books to look at.
i read all three of kevin's books 20 years ago
did you clear cache?
i see $50 right now if i click through to sub
anyone else having issues?
nvm