/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12467091]

Alarmingly based

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis

[Anonymous No.12467163]

>According to journalist Coby McDonald, Mullis' HIV skepticism influenced Thabo Mbeki's denialist policymaking throughout his tenure as president of South Africa from 1999 to 2008, contributing to as many as 330,000 African deaths.
Woah

[Anonymous No.12467406]

>In 2006, Mullis wrote the foreword to the book What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? by Christine Maggiore,[48] an HIV-positive AIDS denialist who, along with her 3-year-old daughter, died of an AIDS-related illness in 2009.

[Anonymous No.12467454]

>>12467091
I’m not particularly monolithic in my racism, more of a general misanthrope who thinks every race could use a good genetic clean up, but man I feel this burning sense that the world needs a mass catastrophe. It’s been quite a while since death has had its way with humans. Anyone else feel we’re due a massive uptick in mortality rates? It’s not wishful thinking or anything edgey like that, I just feel like we’re past due. Anyone else feel this?

[Anonymous No.12467559]

He died in 2019, just before the coof happened

[Anonymous No.12467639]

>>12467091
yeah this guy is easily one of the most based Nobel laureates of all time

[Anonymous No.12467656]

>>12467454
or maybe society is actually supposed to evolve in a positive direction away from things like violent crimes, brutal warfare, disease, and poverty, towards a more evolved society that doesn't have these things.

[Anonymous No.12467688]

>>12467656
You knew this was coming right

[Anonymous No.12468733]

>>12467656
How exactly will things “evolve” without selection pressures or the threat of extinction?

[Anonymous No.12469689]

>>12468733
Also why is violence necessarily bad? Bad as opposed to what? A climate of gay 5th gen warfare where the war is dueling demoralisation and misinformation? A world of infinite litigiousness and absurdly high or low punishments for violence, distributed on a semi-random basis? A world of passive-aggression, where lying has no penalty and is actually strongly rewarded? That's your world without violence. The state monopolisation for violence has been a tragedy for the honest race.

[Anonymous No.12470248]

>>12468733
>>12469689
>NOOOOOOO THE WORLD IS TOO BORING WITHOUT VIOLENCE I WANT IT TO BE INTERESTING LIKE MY VIDEOGAMES BECAUSE SURELY I'M NOT AMONG THE MAJORITY THAT WOULD HAVE DIED AWAY IN SUCH A SOCIETY, I'M NOT A NPC LIKE THEM, I'M SPECIAL!

[Anonymous No.12470281]

>>12468733
>How exactly will things “evolve” without selection pressures or the threat of extinction?
Not him but even in a non-violent capitalist society, selection through efficiency does happen. No poverty doesn't mean no inequality.

[Anonymous No.12470307]

>>12467656
This is the gilded age of liberalism. It will be a few decades before the true damage of their foolishness will manifest. Once it does, it will be truly awful.

[Anonymous No.12471584]

>>12470248
The second one wasn’t my comment, dimwit. You’re greentexting two different people. I never said violence was something I wanted to happen or that peace is boring, just that I feel this sense of looming dread that we’re past due a mortality uptick. Check id’s next time

[Anonymous No.12471597]

>>12467656
ahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha hohohohohhohohoh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah im laughing at myself because this is what i believed just a few short years ago.

[Anonymous No.12471706]

>>12467656
Why yes, we are meant to remove all eugenic pressure to make healthy, intelligent, sane, strong, brave people.

[Anonymous No.12471710]

>>12467656
you can't seriously think humans are going to move away from brutal warfare
do you think we're the top of the food chain for nothing?

[Anonymous No.12471723]

>>12471584
> /pol/lack doesn't get the point of an anonymous image board
shocking

[Anonymous No.12471730]

>>12468733
Oh there definitely still is selection happening. Well balanced, upright humans get to reproduce, while cynical failures like you and me don't.

[Anonymous No.12471741]

>>12467091
this is caused by information confidence or something right? common in actual schizos except they're usually low IQ but it's caused by a similar thing
the schizo connects a bunch of dots from nothing but some smart people end up crazy because they absorb so much information they end up connecting a bunch of dots in a similar fashion but since not many people are on their level they can't be "talked down" from the insane connections they draw - I wonder if it's just because humans can access and process more information now than almost ever before. Maybe eventually society will progress intelligence wise to a point that the average person would be considered insane in todays world

[Anonymous No.12471997]

>>12471741
There’s also a phenomena where a person encounters a baffling but empirically verified piece of information that refutes mainstream consensus and then elaborate off into an alternate worldview where most of their further claims are unproven, unverifiable, or probably false. The most obvious example would be someone witnessing pretty clear cut evidence of the supernatural ie. the day after a loved ones death a door randomly pushes open without explanation as though the ghost is confusedly wandering the void. A normie will forget all about it or just argue it away or maybe even cherish it before compartmentalizing it and resuming scientific materialism as though it never happened (reflexive cognitive dissonance). A schizo will see this event and start going full tilt on ghost cosmologies and get obsessed with communicating with them. The axis of evil in cosmology would also be an example. It glaringly refutes modern cosmology and hints that the universe is somehow aiming at the one solar system we know of with life and consciousness. A schizo will often encounter this and use it as an excuse to completely abandon scientific rationalism, going too far off the deep end into unsubstantiated theorizing. They take one tiny fact that completely unravels the mainstream consensus but then start building a mostly unverifiable alternative worldview off of it. The axis of evil proves that the universe was built with intent and not chance, at least in part, but a schizo will bridge from this to “my religion is literally completely real” despite the axis of evil in no way hinting at a creator god specific to their religion.
TL;DR They take one verifiable fact that knockdown refutes the mainstream and then build off of it and expand into a vast unverified theoretical worldview that people who don’t see the original irrefutable fact are utterly baffled by.

[Anonymous No.12472051]

Not 100% but I'm fairly sure Kary Mullis is a fraud, and stole most of his PCR research from a Finnish colleague. There is work published about thermostable enzymes and people were working on replicating DNA with polymerases, and Kary was working under some guy.

The whole bullshit apocrypha about how he visualised a thermostable enzyme replicating DNA whilst riding a motorbike high on acid is total bullshit, but its the smooth brained shit normies like to regurgitate because its more romantic than large groups of people slogging away at solving a single problem for years.