Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Jordan Peterson Almost Says Something Cool, Then Falls Back Into Lameness" video.

  1. I think I came across a PZ Myers video debunking that JP segment. But to anyone with a high school education (in America and I assume in Canada) you know that that is not what the double helix looks like. This is on par with those Christians who got super wet when they found a cell in the body that kind of sort of from a certain angle under the right light if you squint looks like a crucifix: therefore Jesus loves you, donate $20. Also, does this count as Michael going on Chapo...or?
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  2. Did anyone see that news story about the lobster that chopped off its own claw? How is JP not all over that?
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  3. His milkshake brings the incels to the yard.
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  4. Would a psychopath cry over the suffering the Individual? I di ...Oh wait, yeah.
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  5. It depends on the context. If you've got a weird, out of the box interpretation of a novel or movie, great, more power to you, that stuff makes life interesting. But if you're making claims about how actually existing human societies had genes revealed to them because of some Jungian hocus pocus, then you'd better be able to back that up buckaroo.
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  6. Taylor Phoenix Scientists couldn't actually image an atom until very recently, and because of the nature of how things work on those very small scales, atoms don't really "look" like anything. Some images at the atomic level aren't even processed with optical methods but instead use other means to interpret data as an image. Before these scanning methods were developed, how did scientists form an understanding of how atoms are structured? Probably because they weren't interested in how they looked, but in how they behave. By performing experiments, they were able to discover an atom's mass, charge, spin, and how it interacts with other atoms. The discovery of the double helix was the opposite: discovering its structure through imaging elucidated aspects of its function that we previously couldn't have known about. In the case of the Watson and Crick, we have a record to show how they came to discover the double helix. No such record exists in the case of the ancient Chinese or any other peoples. Instead, JP would have us believe that the knowledge of DNA is somehow inbuilt into the human mind thanks to Jungian archetypes. There's no evidence for that, and quite a lot to the contrary. If early cultures had had an intuitive understanding of DNA all along, it's unlikely that they would have developed medical practices based around the absolute desperation of remedies, herbs, powderized animal parts, blood magic, cannibalism, incantations, and spirits. Most damning of all for JP's hack theory is that the image of two braided strands is NOT a representation of the double helix, which has its strands twisting in parallel, NOT crossing over each other as in the picture of the serpents. The knowledge that the Earth is a sphere was not "lost" after the Greeks. https://www.thoughtco.com/did-medieval-people-believe-in-a-flat-earth-1221612
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  7. Mablak That's where context is important though. Most people know that astrology and horoscopes are bullshit. It's just dumb entertainment. But JP is standing up there in a suit in front of a college classroom disseminating information on which he is supposed to be an expert and for which those students are paying a not insignificant amount of money. Maybe that gets into a grey area of academic freedom, but.
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  8. Felix and Matt together on Chapo can be a fucking riot sometimes.
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  9. Just what it sounds like. A blunt rolled with the seeds rather than the leaves.
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  10. That's the one. That must have also been where I got the comparison to laminin. Funny how the brain works.
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