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  • Yeah I’m not giving that much credence to an article that uses the pop term “brain rot” while trying to make a scientific statement.

    There isn’t any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in “both potential and execution,” our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.

    Sounds like they’re trying to glean something from an article that doesn’t support their premise.

    If we’re looking for a cause for people falling into propaganda and supporting self destructive policies, it’s has nothing to do with intellect. It has to do with a perceived sense of vulnerability. People do insane shit when they feel vulnerable. It’s why cults exist.




  • Lol ass-dogs

    On a serious note, does anyone else get some serious Dunning-Kruger vibes from this? Like serious scientists and experts in the field are very specificly saying that these are not dire wolves. The only people saying they are dire wolves are the owners of the private company that made them. A company with an invested economic interest in people believing them. I’m not an expert geneticist, but I hope you’ll excuse me if I believe the scienctists over the people saying, “you can tell it’s a direwolf by the way that it is!” so that they can make money.



  • Someone posted another article that has a interview with an independent scientist, and I think it’s rather illuminating.

    Meachen is impressed with Colossal’s announcement but remains skeptical.

    “I don’t think they are actually dire wolves. I don’t think what we have is dire wolves,” Meachen told ABC News. “What we had is something new – we have a mostly gray wolf that looks like a dire wolf.”

    Shapiro disagrees with that thinking.

    “I think that the best definition of a species is if it looks like that species, if it is acting like that species, if it’s filling the role of that species then you’ve done it,” she said.

    So their only criteria for “Is it a dire wolf,” is yupp, looks like one and behaves like one, even though every real scientist is skeptical. This is, never the less, still impressive technology, but bringing back extinct animals seems more like a marketing gimic than a description of what they’re actually doing.

    Flawless logic. Never mind that no one alive has ever observed a dire wolf.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562