Tag: science
HHS debars Peter Daszak
There is another Dr Peter who should have his balls cut off. ABN
Genetics, not shared environments, drives parent-child similarities in cognitive ability
A new study published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility suggests that the transmission of cognitive ability from parents to children is primarily driven by genetics, with little influence from shared environmental factors like family resources. The findings challenge traditional assumptions in social mobility research that often attribute these correlations primarily to socio-economic status..
..The German TwinLife survey is a large, longitudinal study designed to explore the interplay between genetic and environmental factors in shaping various life outcomes, including cognitive abilities, educational attainment, and social mobility. The survey focuses on same-sex twin pairs and their biological families, enabling researchers to separate the effects of genetic inheritance from those of shared family environments. For example, monozygotic twins, who share 100% of their genetic material, can be compared with dizygotic twins, who share about 50% of their genetic material, to estimate the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors.
By incorporating multiple family members—including parents and siblings—across four birth cohorts, the survey spans an extensive developmental range, from early childhood (ages 5–6) to young adulthood (ages 21–25). This breadth allows researchers to examine how genetic and environmental influences evolve over the life course.
…The results provided evidence that the intergenerational transmission of cognitive ability is driven primarily by genetic inheritance rather than shared environmental factors. Across all age groups examined, the researchers found minimal evidence that parental cognitive ability significantly influenced children’s cognitive development through environmental mechanisms. Instead, the observed similarities in cognitive abilities between parents and children were largely attributed to shared genetic factors.
…“The key takeaway is that the similarity in cognitive ability between parents and children appears to be driven primarily by shared genes rather than shared environment. While we often assume that parents influence their children’s cognitive development through factors like education style, resources, and parenting, our study finds little evidence for environmental transmission that occurs through parental cognitive ability specifically.”
So much for white privilege. White people have amply demonstrated that they have the right kinds of genes to produce massive complex civilizations that function well. Obviously, the obverse is just as true — peoples who do not form well-functioning complex civilizations probably lack the genetics to do so. I do think white and Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and some others have a moral obligation to help less endowed parts of the world. But I do not think we are in any way required to admit millions of people who, no matter the DEI given them, will never be able to perform in ways that assist or improve complex societies made up of people not of their genetic endowment. I myself can speak Chinese and like many aspects of Chinese culture and am able to succeed in China, but prefer living in USA. The genetic endowment is different. China is a shame culture based on hierarchies. The West is a guilt culture based on limited but substantial personal freedoms. ABN
UPDATE: Another point is within white societies, many whites, including highly intelligent ones, are perfectly content doing menial and blue collar jobs without complaint. White people at all levels are pretty good are cooperating with each other and honest enough that most laws are largely followed and most jobs are done conscientiously. When POCs and Jews screech and complain, most whites have no defenses, or inadequate ones to perceive the situation clearly, because when whites scream and complain most whites will believe there must be a good reason for it. Jews have used this trick against whites for the entire modern era in the West and backed it up with clandestine violence when screaming alone is not sufficiently effective. To this day, the vast majority of whites are incapable of grasping how that technique works on them and how it is being used against them. The most distressing side of this situation is the majority of whites who hold positions of power today are whites who passed the obedience mind-control tests and have not been poisoned or disabled by clandestine operatives, often posing as friends. ABN
The Aryan Invasion of India: How modern science has vindicated an old theory
…In 2019, two major studies were published which gave some of the strongest evidence yet to the theory.
…So while Proto-Indo-Europeans expanded out of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe in all directions, it was their later Northern European branch which mixed with native European farmers that then expanded back eastward and became the founders of Vedic civilisation.
…Written between 1,500-1,000 BC, the Rigveda is one of the foundational Hindu texts — one of the four Vedas, and the oldest Vedic Sanskrit text. It records the story of the Aryan incursion into India and their encounter with the local populations.
The Indo-Iranian peoples apparently referred to themselves as “Aryans”, meaning “noble” or “civilised”. An inscription on the tomb of Darius the Great uses the term “Ariya” to describe the Iranian people, apparently describing Darius as an “Aryan of Aryan descent.” In Avestan, the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism, “Airyanem Vaejah” is used to describe an ancient “Aryan expanse” which was the homeland of the Iranian people. Similarly, the Sanskrit term ārya, meaning noble, is used throughout the Rigveda to describe the conquerors who subdued the native Indians, who are referred to as Dasa/Dasyu.
I am a bit disappointed in this essay because it misses so much of what really happened in the ancient world, but it is worth reading due to the genetic information presented and its discussion of the Rigveda.
‘Aryan’ is the root source of the name Chinese use for themselves to this day — ‘huaren‘ (華人). It is also the source for the name of the earliest Chinese dynasty, the Xia Dynasty (夏朝). This shows that the expanse of ancient Aryan peoples included also Tocharians in Northeast Asia, where they had a very significant influence on the development of Chinese, Korean, Mongolian and Japanese civilizations.
Aryan peoples are largely synonymous with Scythians, who ruled Central Asia for many centuries, dating back to their invention of the chariot, circa 2,000 BCE, which is why horses were so important in their spread and dominance. It is entirely ridiculous to feel proud today that you have Aryan ancestry (many people do) or that Indian civilization owes nothing to the Aryans.
Incidentally, the Buddha himself was Aryan or Scythian. When he is called Shakyamuni, the name literally means ‘sage of the Scythians’. The Buddha is often referred to as an Aryan in traditional Buddhist texts. The only physical description we have of Shakyamuni Buddha says his eyes were blue. It is ridiculous to be either proud of ancestry from Aryans or ashamed of not being Aryan or having been conquered by them. All peoples everywhere have been conquered and enslaved, and conquered and enslaved others.
Read the works of Christopher Beckwith for a much more detailed and expansive take on this subject. For Buddhists, I highly recommend his book, Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. Beckwith claims Aryan dominance and deep influence in all of the cultures bordering Central Asia was not particularly violent but rather resulted from Aryan/ Scythian males settling in a region and mating with the local women. This led to the formation of many creole languages with prominent Indo-European words and features. ABN
Our present dark age
Geological Timescale: Concentration of Atmospheric CO2 & Mean Global Temperatures
‘Mirror life’ — What it is and why it is dangerous
Confronting risks of mirror life
Abstract
All known life is homochiral. DNA and RNA are made from “righthanded” nucleotides, and proteins are made from “left-handed” amino acids. Driven by curiosity and plausible applications, some researchers had begun work toward creating lifeforms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules. Such mirror organisms would constitute a radical departure from known life, and their creation warrants careful consideration. The capability to create mirror life is likely at least a decade away and would require large investments and major technical advances; we thus have an opportunity to consider and preempt risks before they are realized. Here, we draw on an indepth analysis of current technical barriers, how they might be eroded by technological progress, and what we deem to be unprecedented and largely overlooked risks (1). We call for broader discussion among the global research community, policy-makers, research funders, industry, civil society, and the public to chart an appropriate path forward.
What is Consciousness? | Bernardo Kastrup with Susan Blackmore
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Does the Universe think? (with Bernardo Kastrup)
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UPDATE: I’ve watched 45 minutes of this and, so far, it is a beautiful model of how to talk. These guys are both trained philosophers and act like it. They listen charitably (means use the best possible interpretation of what they hear) to each other, delight in rebuttals, and quickly and easily clear up misunderstandings with evident pleasure as they move almost seamlessly together deeper and deeper into their topic without losing sight of where they want to go. Maybe at minute 46 they are going to kill each other in a fit of anger, who knows? Up to minute 45, they provide an exquisite example of how to talk about philosophy. And what FIML can teach partners about how to talk to each other.
The field of FIML is not philosophy per se. It is the idiosyncratic intermeshed fields of the FIML partners themselves. I have often said FIML has no content save what partners bring to it. FIML is a technique which reveals what our content is, what we are bringing to our relationship. Once both partners see clearly through the eyes and ears of each other what both of you are bringing, you will also delight in the fun of being able to talk as well as Kastrup and Hawkins (but about much more than just philosophy). I doubt either one of them does FIML and both of them might find it difficult since so much of their psycholinguistic constellations are defined by academic philosophy, but I know they could do it if they tried. ABN
‘We’ve DISCOVERED Time Travel but it’s NOT what you think’ — Ashton Forbes | Redacted w Clayton Morris
Zero-point energy explained — Dr Paul Czysz
8.7-Million-Year-Old Fossil Suggests Ancestors of Humans and African Apes Evolved in Europe
The origin of the hominines (African apes and humans) is among the most hotly debated topics in paleoanthropology.
The traditional view, ever since Charles Darwin, holds that hominines and hominins (humans and fossil relatives) originate in Africa, where the earliest hominins are found and where all living non-human hominines live.
More recently a European origin has been proposed, based on the analysis of Late Miocene apes from Europe and Central Anatolia.
Anadoluvius turkae attests to a lengthy history of hominines in Europe, with multiple species in the eastern Mediterranean known for at least 2.3 million years.
“Our findings further suggest that hominines not only evolved in western and central Europe but spent over 5 million years evolving there and spreading to the eastern Mediterranean before eventually dispersing into Africa, probably as a consequence of changing environments and diminishing forests,” said Professor David Begun, a paleontologist at the University of Toronto.
“The members of this radiation to which Anadoluvius turkae belongs are currently only identified in Europe and Anatolia.”
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.
The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could become established in the environment and slip past the immune defences of natural organisms, putting humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections.
Although a viable mirror microbe would probably take at least a decade to build, a new risk assessment raised such serious concerns about the organisms that the 38-strong group urged scientists to stop work towards the goal and asked funders to make clear they will no longer support the research.
“The threat we’re talking about is unprecedented,” said Prof Vaughn Cooper, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pittsburgh. “Mirror bacteria would likely evade many human, animal and plant immune system responses and in each case would cause lethal infections that would spread without check.”
Email from Edgar D Mitchell to John Podesta ‘to discuss zero-point energy’
From:terribillionairs@aol.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
CC: eryn.sepp@gmail.com
Date: 2015-03-05 20:24
Subject: email from Edgar for John Podesta (c/o Eryn): meeting request
Dear John,
Now that you are no longer serving in the White House, I write to you and Eryn requesting our face to face meeting to discuss zero point energy and Disclosure.
Our Quantrek science intuitive has provided us with a few facts about our nonviolent contiguous universe ETI who promote PACIFISM among humans and with whom we work:
1. All true ETI do not inhabit this universe.
2. So-called ETIs inhabit this universe and are in fact just celestials. They are higher in rank then discarnate spirits, even those who are evolved, HOWEVER, THEY JUST MIRROR VIOLENCE ON EARTH, FEELING THREATENED BY CONTAMINATION OF THEIR ABODE.
3. Extrauinversal ETIs on the other hand have long ago evolved past violence, relying on spiritual intelligence to avert destruction.
4. The Phoenix Lights and other sightings have provided ample evidence that Earth has been visited by beings whose intention is purely peace and who have nonviolently hovered over Phoenix and other sites, waiting to be asked to help, when they could most easily have destroyed the city with their uses of consciousness. These sightings have been witnessed by thousands of people in Phoenix alone, including my colleague Terri Mansfield, who will accompany me on our meeting with you.
Please let me now three dates and times that would work for your schedule.
Best regards,
Edgar
Edgar D. Mitchell, ScD
Chief Science Officer & Founder, Quantrek
Apollo 14 astronaut
6th man to walk on the Moon
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