Trump announces task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’

[JohnEngelman]

You said in post #52 that "A number of scientists used Morton's skulls and methods and concluded that it was Gould, rather than Morton, who falsified results," but you cited no proof, and Gould was never a dishonest scientist. You lied.

In fact, you seem to have gotten the whole thing from Metapedia, a site which has yet to post any truth on any debatable or controversial point.

Stephen jay Gould + Morton + "brain size" + measurement

 

[Politruk]

Stephen jay Gould + Morton + "brain size" + measurement

That equation adds up to nothing.

 

[JohnEngelman]

You said in post #52 that "A number of scientists used Morton's skulls and methods and concluded that it was Gould, rather than Morton, who falsified results," but you cited no proof, and Gould was never a dishonest scientist. You lied.

In fact, you seem to have gotten the whole thing from Metapedia, a site which has yet to post any truth on any debatable or controversial point.

The New York Times
By Nicholas Wade June 13, 2011

In a 1981 book, “The Mismeasure of Man,” the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould asserted that Morton, believing that brain size was a measure of intelligence, had subconsciously manipulated the brain volumes of European, Asian and African skulls to favor his bias that Europeans had larger brains and Africans smaller ones.

But now physical anthropologists at the University of Pennsylvania, which owns Morton’s collection, have remeasured the skulls, and in an article that does little to burnish Dr. Gould’s reputation as a scholar, they conclude that almost every detail of his analysis is wrong...

But the Penn team finds Morton’s results were neither fudged nor influenced by his convictions. They identified and remeasured half of the skulls used in his reports, finding that in only 2 percent of cases did Morton’s measurements differ significantly from their own. These errors either were random or gave a larger than accurate volume to African skulls, the reverse of the bias that Dr. Gould imputed to Morton.

“These results falsify the claim that Morton physically mismeasured crania based on his a priori biases,” the Pennsylvania team writes...

“Ironically, Gould’s own analysis of Morton is likely the stronger example of a bias influencing results,” the Pennsylvania team writes...

An earlier study by John S. Michael, then an undergraduate at Macalester College in St. Paul, concluded that Morton’s results were “reasonably accurate,” with no clear sign of manipulation...

But Ralph L. Holloway, an expert on human evolution at Columbia and a co-author of the new study, was less willing to give Dr. Gould benefit of the doubt.

“I just didn’t trust Gould,” he said. “I had the feeling that his ideological stance was supreme. When the 1996 version of ‘The Mismeasure of Man’ came and he never even bothered to mention Michael’s study, I just felt he was a charlatan.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html

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Penn Today

Using a larger dataset than all previous studies on the subject combined, researchers found a small but significant connection between brain size and cognitive performance...

A new study, the largest of its kind, led by Gideon Nave of the Wharton School and Philipp Koellinger of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has clarified the connection. Using MRI-derived information about brain size in connection with cognitive performance test results and educational-attainment measures obtained from more than 13,600 people, the researchers found that, as previous studies have suggested, a positive relationship does exist between brain volume and performance on cognitive tests...

“Yet, the effect is strong enough that all future studies that will try to unravel the relationships between more fine-grained measures of brain anatomy and cognitive health should control for total brain volume. Thus, we see our study as a small, but important, contribution to better understanding differences in cognitive health.”


https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bigger-brains-are-smarter-not-much

 

[JohnEngelman]

That equation adds up to nothing.

I posted it by mistake looking for confirmation that Stephen Jay Gould was a charlatan, and brain size matters.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Trump is callously using the "protect the Jews" blather to desensitize the American public about "disappearing undesirables".

One could hardly call the Jews "undesirable." they are the most accomplished 0.2% of the human population.

BBC

Who's behind recent rise in US anti-Semitic attacks?​

28 May 2021
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Max Matza
BBC News, Washington

Experts say it is too early to tell if the high-profile assaults - including a daylight brawl in New York City's Times Square - point to a trend, or are a part of already high levels of such incidents seen across the country in recent years.
Violence and harassment targeting American Jews broke out coast-to-coast amid the 11 days of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians that ended in a ceasefire on 20 May.
Incidents included outdoor diners in Los Angeles who were physically attacked by a group carrying Palestinian flags, violence against orthodox Jews in New York City - home to the largest population of Jews outside of Israel - and Nazi imagery posted on a synagogue in Alaska this week.
Pro-Palestinian protests and anti-Jewish vandalism at synagogues - which are quickly stepping up security due to the attacks - have also been documented in Illinois and Florida.

President Joe Biden wrote on Twitter on Monday: "The recent attacks on the Jewish community are despicable, and they must stop."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57286341

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I am glad that opposition to anti Jewish and anti Israel violence has bi partisan support, and secondly that Trump is coming down hard on the enemies of the Children of Israe and Israel.

 

[Lazaran]

John Eugenicsman is back…

 

[Politruk]

Christian leaders blast Trump's "anti-Christian bias" unit


A group of Christian leaders is denouncing a new White House task force aimed at rooting out "anti-Christian bias" at a time when the Trump administration is going after liberal Christian groups that help immigrants and the poor.
Why it matters: It's the latest example of divisions between moderate and conservative Christians who are at odds over the administration's free speech and immigration policies.

Zoom in: In a letter signed by two dozen leaders and scholars, the group of leaders say they reject the idea that there is widespread persecution of Christians in the United States — a popular claim among white evangelicals.

• The leaders say they fear that the "anti-Christian Bias Task Force" will be weaponized to privilege one tradition within Christianity over others, creating anti-Christian bias even as it claims to combat it.
• "We are also aware of how claims of 'anti-Christian bias' are shown to provide cover for white supremacy," the letter says.
• The letter was signed by Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, CEO and president of the Interfaith Alliance, and Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, among others.

State of play: In February, President Trump signed an executive order "establishing a task force to end the anti-Christian weaponization of government and unlawful conduct targeting Christians."

• It fulfills a promise Trump made to white evangelicals — who were among his strongest supporters — to prevent the federal government from requiring them to provide reproductive care to employees or protect the rights of transgender people.
• Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi held the task force's first meeting and took comments from evangelicals who alleged the Biden administration had targeted them.

 

[Politruk]

Based on this thread, it appears what we need a whole lot more is a task force to eradicate anti-Muslim bias.

 

[Politruk]

Nobody can ever name an instance of Christians being persecuted in the U.S.

And, no, a bakery being pressured to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding is not persecution.