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Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10306201/

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  • Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t spread it around. It’s a complete fraud of a paper for all we know. Just the fact that it has convincing rebuttals is enough to make you consider it irrelevant.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s not a fraud. Science isn’t black and white. Discussing things is a good thing. It’s still peer reviewed and not retracted. Not everyone dismisses it.

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      • Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No, you’re thinking of philosophy. Philosophy is a discussion. Science is a process. Just the fact that they are being accused of being misleading and outright falsyfyiing evidence is enough to simply ignore their purported results until they can produce a paper that fixes all those problems.

        It’s not a discussion whether we can agree on something. The evidence should do the only talking.

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• ZMoney@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Check out “The Dawn of Everything” by Wengrow and Graeber

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  • ynazuma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Different point of view on your “source”, which is a mass market paperback made to sell and be consumed, not for serious scientific inquiry.

    libcom.org/…/wrong-about-almost-everything-review…

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This author is a crackpot that also went after Chomsky. Chomsky had a hilarious rebuttal.

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      • ZMoney@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s a summary work that draws on decades of research. Both of these authors are extremely well-published in their respective fields. I’m like a third of the way through Dawn of Everything and it’s just as academic as “Debt” was, and neither are mass-market pulp. But work like this always draws hit pieces because it’s a way for critics to get their name out there.

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    • ZMoney@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What I find interesting about this article is that it critiques heavily about the first 200 pages, says almost nothing about the next 600, and then says the conclusion is unsatisfactory because it didn’t quote the book the author wrote in 1991. It’s transparently personal.

      Academics write books. Get over it.

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