Biological reality: What genetics has taught us about race ~ Adam Rutherford, BBC

"[Human Genome Project] provided definitive evidence that racial groupings have no biological basis. In fact, there is more genetic variation within racial groups than between them. Race, it showed, is a social construct."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250417-biological-reality-what-genetics-has-taught-us-about-race

#humangenome #genetics #Science #eugenics #race

Serious science is increasingly abandoning the dogma of 20th century frequentist statistics centered on the bullshit idea of "statistical significance" in hypothesis testing. On this matter, here are two erudite articles by the mathematician Aubrey Clayton on the history of 20th century statistics, highlighting the impact of the eugenic views of Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and Ronald Fisher. 1/2

"How Eugenics Shaped Statistics" (2020)
https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014/

I cannot think of an applied mathematics that is more beautiful and far-reaching, or philosophically wilder, than probability. No, nonlinear dynamics and chaos people, it’s not even close 🤣

#probability
#mathematics
#appliedmathematics
#philosophy
#philosophyofscience
@philosophy
@philosophy@a.gup.pe

Look: I, a US citizen, born and raised in the United States, holder of a valid state ID and federal passport, with no criminal record, am not confident I could pass through a US border checkpoint right now without being harassed or even detained. (I have been critical of Donald Trump in public, and that seems to be all it takes.)

If *I* am not confident about that, imagine how anyone without those credentials must feel.

If you are organizing conferences, meetings, etc. that require people to pass through those checkpoints to attend, you need to grapple with this. You are asking attendees to take a serious personal risk.