The know-nothing creationists who write anti-science comments here, they disgrace the United States.
Why can't these people look things up and educate themselves? The Encyclopedia Britannica would be a good place to start. Also, we have Google and Wikipedia. There's tons of information that explains everything. Unfortunately, these people have zero curiosity.
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Update:
The Wall Street Journal vaporized this comment. Fuck you WSJ.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020
I'm adding this to my list of favorite quotes. It's about the science deniers of Idiot America.
Rank and file creationists pretty much have little or no intellectual curiosity; more than that though, they display profound, willful ignorance, which makes them ideal gullible followers --they simply parrot what they've been fed by their creationist "influencers"--of whom there are two basic types: 1) opportunistic capitalists, who can pull in big bucks with their creationist museums and Ark Encounters and their book deals and movies, and 2) the cynical, ambitious ideologues, whose aim is political power.
For the latter, organized creationism is not about learning anything--about nature, science, or even religion. It's an ideological movement whose main interest is control over the education system, as well as the larger society. It has now been incorporated into a larger dominionist movement, aimed at replacing the Constitution with the fundamentalist evangelicals' own perverted version of Sharia-like law. They want to take us back to the 14th Century.
-- Ted K
-- Ted K
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Saturday, August 15, 2020
I never met a Christian who wasn't a fucking moron.
Somebody wrote this about creationist retards: "You know they're not allowed to read science books."
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I think their problem is zero curiosity, which is "a strong desire to know or learn something".
They don't want to know anything. They would rather know nothing.
Science hard, hurts brain. God easy, no think.
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I think their problem is zero curiosity, which is "a strong desire to know or learn something".
They don't want to know anything. They would rather know nothing.
Science hard, hurts brain. God easy, no think.
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Sunday, August 9, 2020
What someone else wrote about curiosity and why Christian fucktards don't have it.
Curiosity makes scientific progress possible. Creationists have zero curiosity. True or false?
"They may have curiosity about other things, but they tend to not have any curiosity or interest to even look into anything relating to the origins of the universe, the age of the Earth/solar system, abiogenesis, or evolution, because they believe that their ancient book of fairy tales provides them concrete answers and they don't need to bother looking elsewhere."
-- Internet name: Sky
"They may have curiosity about other things, but they tend to not have any curiosity or interest to even look into anything relating to the origins of the universe, the age of the Earth/solar system, abiogenesis, or evolution, because they believe that their ancient book of fairy tales provides them concrete answers and they don't need to bother looking elsewhere."
-- Internet name: Sky
Monday, August 3, 2020
Something I wrote for Christian assholes.
Religious brainwashing is child abuse. The victims learn how to not think. All their curiosity is sucked out of them. The child abusers should be put in prison.
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Someone else wrote this:
It's been that way all my life -- I watched so many kids in my community being raised by Christian parents who had to endure an entire childhood of stifling brainwashing and abhorrent mental terrorism that started, for many of them, right after they were born. It's disgusting that our society still allows this. It's literally like the last form of Legal Child Abuse that we still allow to occur.
-- Jeff
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Someone else wrote this:
It's been that way all my life -- I watched so many kids in my community being raised by Christian parents who had to endure an entire childhood of stifling brainwashing and abhorrent mental terrorism that started, for many of them, right after they were born. It's disgusting that our society still allows this. It's literally like the last form of Legal Child Abuse that we still allow to occur.
-- Jeff
Friday, July 24, 2020
My contempt for Christian scum grows everyday. What I wrote for some assholes for Jeebus.
An idiot wrote: "The religion of evolutionism." Scientific facts are not religions. Evolution is called evolution, not evolutionism. Why does science make Christians cry?
"Justin" = know-nothing bible-thumper. Science makes him cry.
Why do science deniers repeatedly advertise their total ignorance of everything?
Wikipedia makes Christians cry. For example, ask them to google "Wikipedia evidence for evolution". They are afraid to educate themselves. Thinking makes them cry. They have zero curiosity. They don't want to leave their "everything is magic" fantasy world.
"Justin" = know-nothing bible-thumper. Science makes him cry.
Why do science deniers repeatedly advertise their total ignorance of everything?
Wikipedia makes Christians cry. For example, ask them to google "Wikipedia evidence for evolution". They are afraid to educate themselves. Thinking makes them cry. They have zero curiosity. They don't want to leave their "everything is magic" fantasy world.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Christians are stupid fucking assholes.
Someone asked for a list of evil things about Christianity.
What I wrote:
1. Brainwashing children. This is child abuse.
2. The never-ending Christian war against teaching evolution.
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What someone else wrote:
Some Christians use their religion as an excuse to go after minority groups. That it's ordained by their god to torture, torment, and end a group they find bad or wrong. Religious freedom laws that make it okay to deny birth control coverage to women or deny services.
Twisting love into some sort of free pass to excuse their own behaviors and actions. They do this out of love while being nasty, overbearing, proselytizing. Then crying victim when people call this out. As if they can do no wrong as long as they claim God is with them.
Inserting their teachings and beliefs into the laws that everyone has to follow. Getting creationism taught in public schools. Abortion restrictions or outright banning, such as no abortions after six weeks or the fetal heartbeat laws.
Taking it for granted that being a Christian is automatically a good thing. That because you call yourself a Christian, you are morally superior to those that are not Christians.
Loss of curiosity. Christianity asks that you do not question or explore anything much beyond making sure God doesn't condemn you.
What I wrote:
1. Brainwashing children. This is child abuse.
2. The never-ending Christian war against teaching evolution.
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What someone else wrote:
Some Christians use their religion as an excuse to go after minority groups. That it's ordained by their god to torture, torment, and end a group they find bad or wrong. Religious freedom laws that make it okay to deny birth control coverage to women or deny services.
Twisting love into some sort of free pass to excuse their own behaviors and actions. They do this out of love while being nasty, overbearing, proselytizing. Then crying victim when people call this out. As if they can do no wrong as long as they claim God is with them.
Inserting their teachings and beliefs into the laws that everyone has to follow. Getting creationism taught in public schools. Abortion restrictions or outright banning, such as no abortions after six weeks or the fetal heartbeat laws.
Taking it for granted that being a Christian is automatically a good thing. That because you call yourself a Christian, you are morally superior to those that are not Christians.
Loss of curiosity. Christianity asks that you do not question or explore anything much beyond making sure God doesn't condemn you.
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Sunday, July 12, 2020
How to prevent children from being as stupid as their Christian parents.
Somebody else asked this interesting question:
Christians are idiots ... no brains. Should we take away their brainwashed kids and educate these poor kids into intelligent, smart atheism?
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My answer:
The solution is mandatory science education, especially evolution, starting at age 6, before the religious brainwashing destroys their ability to think, and before all their curiosity is sucked out of them. Also, the biology teachers must be very competent, so the teachers must be atheists.
Christians are idiots ... no brains. Should we take away their brainwashed kids and educate these poor kids into intelligent, smart atheism?
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My answer:
The solution is mandatory science education, especially evolution, starting at age 6, before the religious brainwashing destroys their ability to think, and before all their curiosity is sucked out of them. Also, the biology teachers must be very competent, so the teachers must be atheists.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
If you're a Christian then you're a fucking retard. Grow up FFS.
When normal people want to learn something about evolution they go to science websites.
When Christians want to learn something about evolution they go to bible websites or some other anti-science website.
What's their fucking problem? Are they afraid of real scientists? Are they too cowardly to learn something? Do they have zero curiosity?
It's all of the above. Christians refuse to learn anything about evolution because this branch of science destroys their disgusting ridiculous cult.
It's a stupidity problem. Some of these people might have successful careers but they're still just plain fucking stupid.
When Christians want to learn something about evolution they go to bible websites or some other anti-science website.
What's their fucking problem? Are they afraid of real scientists? Are they too cowardly to learn something? Do they have zero curiosity?
It's all of the above. Christians refuse to learn anything about evolution because this branch of science destroys their disgusting ridiculous cult.
It's a stupidity problem. Some of these people might have successful careers but they're still just plain fucking stupid.
This is the 21st century FFS. There is no excuse for being an evolution denier. And there is no excuse for sticking Jeebus into science. Those are the fucktards who think Jeebus is one of the mechanisms of evolution and that's ridiculous.
The people who think a worthless dead preacher magically became a zombie are not just stupid, they're fucking insane.
The people who think a worthless dead preacher magically became a zombie are not just stupid, they're fucking insane.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
2019 Gallup poll: 40% of Americans believe in magical creationism. 33% of Americans think Jeebus is one of the mechanisms of evolution. 22 percent of Americans accept evolution without supernatural magic.
2019 Gallup poll:
40% of Americans believe in magical creationism.
33% of Americans think Jeebus is one of the mechanisms of evolution.
22% of Americans accept evolution without supernatural magic.
5% of Americans said, "Duh, what is evolution?"
This means 78% of Americans are uneducated morons.
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Only 22% is disgraceful but it used to be much worse. In the year 2000, only 9% of Americans accepted evolution without a fairy's magic wand.
What is going on here? Old morons are dropping dead and that's a good thing. Good riddance.
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Try to imagine the stupidity required to be an evolution denier in the 21st century. These people are afraid of science websites. They have zero curiosity. They go out of their way to know nothing. And they are very hard of thinking. Most Americans are just plain fucking stupid.
40% of Americans believe in magical creationism.
33% of Americans think Jeebus is one of the mechanisms of evolution.
22% of Americans accept evolution without supernatural magic.
5% of Americans said, "Duh, what is evolution?"
This means 78% of Americans are uneducated morons.
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Only 22% is disgraceful but it used to be much worse. In the year 2000, only 9% of Americans accepted evolution without a fairy's magic wand.
What is going on here? Old morons are dropping dead and that's a good thing. Good riddance.
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Try to imagine the stupidity required to be an evolution denier in the 21st century. These people are afraid of science websites. They have zero curiosity. They go out of their way to know nothing. And they are very hard of thinking. Most Americans are just plain fucking stupid.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Curiosity is a good thing. Here in Idiot American we have millions of Christian fucktards who are not curious about anything. Thinking makes them cry. Curiosity would destroy their ridiculous cult and that's why religious brainwashers try to wipe out the curiosity children are born with.
Wikipedia - Curiosity
Curiosity is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals. Curiosity is heavily associated with all aspects of human development, in which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill.
The term curiosity can also be used to denote the behavior or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is attributed over millennia as the driving force behind not only human development, but developments in science, language, and industry.
Curiosity can be seen as an innate quality of many different species. It is common to human beings at all ages from infancy through adulthood, and is easy to observe in many other animal species; these include apes, cats, and rodents. Early definitions cite curiosity as a motivated desire for information. This motivational desire has been said to stem from a passion or an appetite for knowledge, information, and understanding.
These traditional ideas of curiosity have recently expanded to look at the difference between curiosity as the innate exploratory behavior that is present in all animals and curiosity as the desire for knowledge that is specifically attributed to humans.
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There is more stuff at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity.
Curiosity is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals. Curiosity is heavily associated with all aspects of human development, in which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill.
The term curiosity can also be used to denote the behavior or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is attributed over millennia as the driving force behind not only human development, but developments in science, language, and industry.
Curiosity can be seen as an innate quality of many different species. It is common to human beings at all ages from infancy through adulthood, and is easy to observe in many other animal species; these include apes, cats, and rodents. Early definitions cite curiosity as a motivated desire for information. This motivational desire has been said to stem from a passion or an appetite for knowledge, information, and understanding.
These traditional ideas of curiosity have recently expanded to look at the difference between curiosity as the innate exploratory behavior that is present in all animals and curiosity as the desire for knowledge that is specifically attributed to humans.
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There is more stuff at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity.
The evolution deniers of Idiot America
Here in Idiot America we have numerous branches of Christianity. Most of these cults require their brainwashed members to believe in magical creationism (or magical intelligent design creationism). They are required to not know anything about how evolution works. They have to know only one thing about evolution: It's wrong and it's impossible.
The victims of this brainwashing, children, learn how to not think, and all the curiosity they were born with is sucked out of them. This is child abuse and it's disgusting. The child abusers need to be killed but that's never going to happen.
The never-ending brainwashing works. The victims learn how to be uneducated morons. They learn how to hate science. They learn how to think scientists are liars who make stuff up to defend evolution even though evolution is wrong.
Virtually always there is no cure. The brain damage can't be fixed. These victims of child abuse will waste their entire lives not knowing what they are and how they got here. They will always live in their "everything is magic fantasy world". They will always be fucking morons.
The victims of this brainwashing, children, learn how to not think, and all the curiosity they were born with is sucked out of them. This is child abuse and it's disgusting. The child abusers need to be killed but that's never going to happen.
The never-ending brainwashing works. The victims learn how to be uneducated morons. They learn how to hate science. They learn how to think scientists are liars who make stuff up to defend evolution even though evolution is wrong.
Virtually always there is no cure. The brain damage can't be fixed. These victims of child abuse will waste their entire lives not knowing what they are and how they got here. They will always live in their "everything is magic fantasy world". They will always be fucking morons.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The power of the canine nose
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When Cadaver Dogs Pick Up a Scent, Archaeologists Find Where to Dig
Recent research highlights the power of the canine nose to uncover buried remains from ancient human history.
By Cat Warren
May 19, 2020
On a sunny summer day in Croatia several years ago, an archaeologist and two dog handlers watched as two dogs, one after another, slowly worked their way across the rocky top of a wind-scoured ridge overlooking the Adriatic Sea.
Bodies had lain in beehive-shape tombs on this necropolis, part of the prehistoric hill fort of Drvišica, since the Iron Age. The two dogs, trained to detect human remains, were searching for scents that were thousands of years old.
Panda, a Belgian Malinois with a “sensitive nose,” according to her handler, Andrea Pintar, had begun exploring the circular leftovers of a tomb when she suddenly froze, her nose pointed toward a stone burial chest. This was her signal that she had located the scent of human remains.
Ms. Pintar said the hair on her arms rose. “I was skeptical, and I was like, ‘She is kidding me,’” she recalled thinking about her dog that day.
Archaeologists had found fragments of human bone and teeth in the chest, but these had been removed months earlier for analysis and radiocarbon dating. All that was left was a bit of dirt, the stone slabs of the tomb and the cracked limestone of the ridge.
Human-remains detection dogs, or cadaver dogs, are used worldwide on land and water. Well-trained dogs help find the missing and dead in disasters, accidents, murders and suicides. But the experiment in Croatia marked the start of one of the most careful inquiries yet carried out of an unusual archaeological method. If such dogs could successfully locate the burial sites of mass executions, dating from World War II through the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s, might they be effective in helping archaeologists find truly ancient burials?
On the scent of new tombs
Panda wasn’t kidding. Neither was Mali, the other Belgian Malinois trained by Ms. Pintar and her husband, Christian Nikolić. Each dog gave her final indications that day by either sitting or lying inside the flattened circle of the tombs, their noses pointing toward the burial chests within. In some cases they leapt into the small burial chests before offering an alert.
The dogs’ archaeological expedition had been initiated by Vedrana GlavaÅ¡, an archaeologist at Croatia’s University of Zadar. She already knew a great deal about the necropolis at DrviÅ¡ica, having fully excavated and analyzed the contents of three tombs there. Inside each were rough limestone burial chests. She and her team recovered amber beads, belt buckles, bronze pins, teeth and phalanges. Each chest once held at least two bodies, which radiocarbon dating confirmed were 2,700 years old. The skeletal material was highly fragmented, however, and is still being analyzed.
But were there other tombs on the site, and could the dogs help locate them?
After that first preliminary search and its surprising result, Dr. GlavaÅ¡ had beers at a local pub with the dogs’ handlers. They decided to hold off any discussion for a few weeks.
“We needed to think a little bit about what just happened,” Dr. GlavaÅ¡ said.
That “test run” was the beginning of a careful study on whether human-remains detection dogs could be an asset to archaeologists. Setting up a controlled study was difficult. Dr. GlavaÅ¡ had to learn the scientific literature, such as scent theory, far outside the standard confines of archaeology; the same was true for Ms. Pintar and the field of archaeology.
The training challenges were also difficult. Ancient human remains probably present a different and fainter scent profile than more recently deceased cadavers, especially as decades turn into centuries and then millenniums. False negatives seemed likely to occur.
“I think dogs are really capable of this, but I think it’s a logistical challenge,” said Adee Schoon, a scent-detection-animal expert from the Netherlands who was not involved in the study. “It’s not something you can replicate again and again. It’s hard to train.”
And, as Dr. Schoon noted, dogs are “great anomaly detectors.” Something as subtle as recently disturbed soil can elicit a false alert from a dog that is not rigorously trained.
Nonetheless, the team returned to the necropolis for the first controlled tests in September 2015, and again a full year later. Both times, they used all four of Ms. Pintar and Mr. Nikolić’s cadaver dogs: Panda, Mali, a third Belgian Malinois and a German shepherd. They worked them on both known and double-blind searches, in areas where nobody knew if tombs were located.
The dogs located four tombs new to the archaeologists. Dr. GlavaÅ¡ had suspected that a fifth site might hold a burial chest, and the dogs’ alerts, combined with excavation, proved her suspicion correct.
In September 2019, the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory published the results of their study: “This research has demonstrated that HRD dogs are able to detect very small amounts of specific human decomposition odor as well as to indicate to considerably older burials than previously assumed,” Dr. GlavaÅ¡ and Ms. Pintar wrote.
Dr. Schoon, who researches and helps create protocols to train scent-detection animals worldwide, said the Iron Age necropolis study was nicely designed and “really controlled.”
Archaeological cold cases
Panda and Mali aren’t the only dogs in the world that have helped locate human archaeological remains. In the United States, human remains detection dogs have aided discoveries at a variety of Native American sites, some badly damaged by looters and earlier generations of archaeologists with less ethical approaches to excavation, as well as by development and agriculture.
Paul Martin, a dog handler and trainer in Tennessee who is finishing his doctorate in earth sciences and geoarchaeology at the University of Memphis, has studied using dogs to find older remains for nearly two decades, demonstrating their capabilities at some of the large earthen mounds across the eastern United States that were once surrounded by flourishing Native American cities and villages.
His curiosity was piqued in 2002. Mr. Martin and his trained search dog were helping look for a murder victim in a Mississippi county where an informant said the victim was buried on “an old Indian mound.” The dog started showing intense interest at the mound, and Mr. Martin suspected that it wasn’t the more recent murder that held the dog’s attention.
He spoke with John Sullivan, then a state archaeologist at Winterville Mounds near Greenville, Miss. Mr. Sullivan was curious, too: “Paul asked me if dogs would pick up old stuff and I said, ‘Only one way to find out.’”
Mr. Martin started inviting experienced cadaver dogs and handlers to train on and near intact mounds. For years, they recorded dogs’ alerts on mounds in two areas of Mississippi, and even in fields nearby, where earlier mounds were probably flattened.
But getting funding and permission to do excavations is difficult. The alerts remained unconfirmed. Nonetheless, nature sometimes kicks out some free clues. That’s what happened on Mound H in Winterville, Miss., in 2006.
Rodents provided “ground-truthing,” or confirming evidence, free of charge by digging new burrows and displacing what had been hidden for centuries. Just downhill from where a number of human remains detection dogs had alerted during earlier training, “we actually saw a trail of bone coming down the side of the mound,” Mr. Martin said.
A forensic anthropologist confirmed the bones were human, including a child’s scapula. Mr. Sullivan believes they come from the last burials at the site, and date to around 1450 A.D.
Cadaver dogs are also helping archaeologists at some especially challenging sites. Mike Russo and Jeff Shanks, archaeologists with the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center, had created at least 14 test holes near a promising site in northwest Florida that had been flattened during an earlier era of less diligent archaeology. They found nothing.
“We knew where it should be, but when we went there, there was absolutely no mound,” Mr. Russo said.
They then asked Suzi Goodhope, a longtime cadaver-dog handler in Florida, to bring her experienced detection dog, Shiraz, a Belgian Malinois, to the site in 2013. Shiraz and Ms. Goodhope worked the flat, brushy area for a long time. Then, Shiraz sat. Once.
“I was pretty skeptical,” Mr. Shanks said.
Nonetheless, the archaeologists dug. And dug. They went down nearly three feet — and there they found a human toe bone more than 1,300 years old
Passing sniff tests
What is the future of using human-remains detection dogs as a noninvasive tool in archaeology?
Some archaeologists, forensic anthropologists, geologists, scientists — and even H.R.D. dog handlers who know how challenging the work is — say they have great potential. But challenges abound.
Although researchers are learning ever more about the canine olfactory system, they are still trying to pinpoint what volatile organic compounds in human remains are significant to trained dogs.
It’s also unclear what concentration of human remains a trained dog can detect, and which aspects of a given environment help retain the scent.
Ms. Pintar and Dr. GlavaÅ¡ speculate that at the site in Croatia used in their study, the porous and cracked limestone on the ridge might play a role in the longevity of the scent there. Perhaps the mountain itself — used as the base of each burial chest — held on to the scent for thousands of years. But more research will need to be completed to confirm these findings.
Detection dogs also must be trained for archaeology with more consistency. Often humans are the limiting factor. Sometimes, Dr. Schoon said, she can almost see a dog thinking, “Is that all you want me to do? I can do much more!”
And dogs are only a complement to more standard archaeological tools, Mr. Martin noted. The best results come when good human-remains detection dog teams are combined with ground-penetrating radar, geophysical surveys and historical information, and — when feasible or desirable — confirmed with soil tests or excavation.
But more archaeologists around the world are taking note of detection dogs’ potential. Ms. Goodhope has continued working with park service archaeologists on lost slave cemeteries, Civil War sites and other early Native American sites. And Mr. Sullivan, now with the federal Bureau of Land Management, continues to work with dogs and handlers to locate, and avoid the destruction of, Native American sites.
Since Ms. Pintar and Dr. GlavaÅ¡’s Croatia study was published last year, several European and Croatian archaeologists have asked them for help in identifying sites, too.
As for the Iron Age necropolis high on the rocky ridge at DrviÅ¡ica? Dr. GlavaÅ¡ said she doesn’t intend to return to excavate there.
“Something has to be left for future archaeologists.”
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When Cadaver Dogs Pick Up a Scent, Archaeologists Find Where to Dig
Recent research highlights the power of the canine nose to uncover buried remains from ancient human history.
By Cat Warren
May 19, 2020
On a sunny summer day in Croatia several years ago, an archaeologist and two dog handlers watched as two dogs, one after another, slowly worked their way across the rocky top of a wind-scoured ridge overlooking the Adriatic Sea.
Bodies had lain in beehive-shape tombs on this necropolis, part of the prehistoric hill fort of Drvišica, since the Iron Age. The two dogs, trained to detect human remains, were searching for scents that were thousands of years old.
Panda, a Belgian Malinois with a “sensitive nose,” according to her handler, Andrea Pintar, had begun exploring the circular leftovers of a tomb when she suddenly froze, her nose pointed toward a stone burial chest. This was her signal that she had located the scent of human remains.
Ms. Pintar said the hair on her arms rose. “I was skeptical, and I was like, ‘She is kidding me,’” she recalled thinking about her dog that day.
Archaeologists had found fragments of human bone and teeth in the chest, but these had been removed months earlier for analysis and radiocarbon dating. All that was left was a bit of dirt, the stone slabs of the tomb and the cracked limestone of the ridge.
Human-remains detection dogs, or cadaver dogs, are used worldwide on land and water. Well-trained dogs help find the missing and dead in disasters, accidents, murders and suicides. But the experiment in Croatia marked the start of one of the most careful inquiries yet carried out of an unusual archaeological method. If such dogs could successfully locate the burial sites of mass executions, dating from World War II through the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s, might they be effective in helping archaeologists find truly ancient burials?
On the scent of new tombs
Panda wasn’t kidding. Neither was Mali, the other Belgian Malinois trained by Ms. Pintar and her husband, Christian Nikolić. Each dog gave her final indications that day by either sitting or lying inside the flattened circle of the tombs, their noses pointing toward the burial chests within. In some cases they leapt into the small burial chests before offering an alert.
The dogs’ archaeological expedition had been initiated by Vedrana GlavaÅ¡, an archaeologist at Croatia’s University of Zadar. She already knew a great deal about the necropolis at DrviÅ¡ica, having fully excavated and analyzed the contents of three tombs there. Inside each were rough limestone burial chests. She and her team recovered amber beads, belt buckles, bronze pins, teeth and phalanges. Each chest once held at least two bodies, which radiocarbon dating confirmed were 2,700 years old. The skeletal material was highly fragmented, however, and is still being analyzed.
But were there other tombs on the site, and could the dogs help locate them?
After that first preliminary search and its surprising result, Dr. GlavaÅ¡ had beers at a local pub with the dogs’ handlers. They decided to hold off any discussion for a few weeks.
“We needed to think a little bit about what just happened,” Dr. GlavaÅ¡ said.
That “test run” was the beginning of a careful study on whether human-remains detection dogs could be an asset to archaeologists. Setting up a controlled study was difficult. Dr. GlavaÅ¡ had to learn the scientific literature, such as scent theory, far outside the standard confines of archaeology; the same was true for Ms. Pintar and the field of archaeology.
The training challenges were also difficult. Ancient human remains probably present a different and fainter scent profile than more recently deceased cadavers, especially as decades turn into centuries and then millenniums. False negatives seemed likely to occur.
“I think dogs are really capable of this, but I think it’s a logistical challenge,” said Adee Schoon, a scent-detection-animal expert from the Netherlands who was not involved in the study. “It’s not something you can replicate again and again. It’s hard to train.”
And, as Dr. Schoon noted, dogs are “great anomaly detectors.” Something as subtle as recently disturbed soil can elicit a false alert from a dog that is not rigorously trained.
Nonetheless, the team returned to the necropolis for the first controlled tests in September 2015, and again a full year later. Both times, they used all four of Ms. Pintar and Mr. Nikolić’s cadaver dogs: Panda, Mali, a third Belgian Malinois and a German shepherd. They worked them on both known and double-blind searches, in areas where nobody knew if tombs were located.
The dogs located four tombs new to the archaeologists. Dr. GlavaÅ¡ had suspected that a fifth site might hold a burial chest, and the dogs’ alerts, combined with excavation, proved her suspicion correct.
In September 2019, the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory published the results of their study: “This research has demonstrated that HRD dogs are able to detect very small amounts of specific human decomposition odor as well as to indicate to considerably older burials than previously assumed,” Dr. GlavaÅ¡ and Ms. Pintar wrote.
Dr. Schoon, who researches and helps create protocols to train scent-detection animals worldwide, said the Iron Age necropolis study was nicely designed and “really controlled.”
Archaeological cold cases
Panda and Mali aren’t the only dogs in the world that have helped locate human archaeological remains. In the United States, human remains detection dogs have aided discoveries at a variety of Native American sites, some badly damaged by looters and earlier generations of archaeologists with less ethical approaches to excavation, as well as by development and agriculture.
Paul Martin, a dog handler and trainer in Tennessee who is finishing his doctorate in earth sciences and geoarchaeology at the University of Memphis, has studied using dogs to find older remains for nearly two decades, demonstrating their capabilities at some of the large earthen mounds across the eastern United States that were once surrounded by flourishing Native American cities and villages.
His curiosity was piqued in 2002. Mr. Martin and his trained search dog were helping look for a murder victim in a Mississippi county where an informant said the victim was buried on “an old Indian mound.” The dog started showing intense interest at the mound, and Mr. Martin suspected that it wasn’t the more recent murder that held the dog’s attention.
He spoke with John Sullivan, then a state archaeologist at Winterville Mounds near Greenville, Miss. Mr. Sullivan was curious, too: “Paul asked me if dogs would pick up old stuff and I said, ‘Only one way to find out.’”
Mr. Martin started inviting experienced cadaver dogs and handlers to train on and near intact mounds. For years, they recorded dogs’ alerts on mounds in two areas of Mississippi, and even in fields nearby, where earlier mounds were probably flattened.
But getting funding and permission to do excavations is difficult. The alerts remained unconfirmed. Nonetheless, nature sometimes kicks out some free clues. That’s what happened on Mound H in Winterville, Miss., in 2006.
Rodents provided “ground-truthing,” or confirming evidence, free of charge by digging new burrows and displacing what had been hidden for centuries. Just downhill from where a number of human remains detection dogs had alerted during earlier training, “we actually saw a trail of bone coming down the side of the mound,” Mr. Martin said.
A forensic anthropologist confirmed the bones were human, including a child’s scapula. Mr. Sullivan believes they come from the last burials at the site, and date to around 1450 A.D.
Cadaver dogs are also helping archaeologists at some especially challenging sites. Mike Russo and Jeff Shanks, archaeologists with the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center, had created at least 14 test holes near a promising site in northwest Florida that had been flattened during an earlier era of less diligent archaeology. They found nothing.
“We knew where it should be, but when we went there, there was absolutely no mound,” Mr. Russo said.
They then asked Suzi Goodhope, a longtime cadaver-dog handler in Florida, to bring her experienced detection dog, Shiraz, a Belgian Malinois, to the site in 2013. Shiraz and Ms. Goodhope worked the flat, brushy area for a long time. Then, Shiraz sat. Once.
“I was pretty skeptical,” Mr. Shanks said.
Nonetheless, the archaeologists dug. And dug. They went down nearly three feet — and there they found a human toe bone more than 1,300 years old
Passing sniff tests
What is the future of using human-remains detection dogs as a noninvasive tool in archaeology?
Some archaeologists, forensic anthropologists, geologists, scientists — and even H.R.D. dog handlers who know how challenging the work is — say they have great potential. But challenges abound.
Although researchers are learning ever more about the canine olfactory system, they are still trying to pinpoint what volatile organic compounds in human remains are significant to trained dogs.
It’s also unclear what concentration of human remains a trained dog can detect, and which aspects of a given environment help retain the scent.
Ms. Pintar and Dr. GlavaÅ¡ speculate that at the site in Croatia used in their study, the porous and cracked limestone on the ridge might play a role in the longevity of the scent there. Perhaps the mountain itself — used as the base of each burial chest — held on to the scent for thousands of years. But more research will need to be completed to confirm these findings.
Detection dogs also must be trained for archaeology with more consistency. Often humans are the limiting factor. Sometimes, Dr. Schoon said, she can almost see a dog thinking, “Is that all you want me to do? I can do much more!”
And dogs are only a complement to more standard archaeological tools, Mr. Martin noted. The best results come when good human-remains detection dog teams are combined with ground-penetrating radar, geophysical surveys and historical information, and — when feasible or desirable — confirmed with soil tests or excavation.
But more archaeologists around the world are taking note of detection dogs’ potential. Ms. Goodhope has continued working with park service archaeologists on lost slave cemeteries, Civil War sites and other early Native American sites. And Mr. Sullivan, now with the federal Bureau of Land Management, continues to work with dogs and handlers to locate, and avoid the destruction of, Native American sites.
Since Ms. Pintar and Dr. GlavaÅ¡’s Croatia study was published last year, several European and Croatian archaeologists have asked them for help in identifying sites, too.
As for the Iron Age necropolis high on the rocky ridge at DrviÅ¡ica? Dr. GlavaÅ¡ said she doesn’t intend to return to excavate there.
“Something has to be left for future archaeologists.”
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Sunday, May 17, 2020
The breathtaking incurable stupidity of science deniers. Idiot America is infested with these stupid fucking assholes.

My Take: Deniers won’t change until experience forces them
Posted May 16, 2020
I write to reply to the letter from Donald Williams (“Letter: Science literacy would help so much right now,” May 7).
While Mr. Williams’ heart is in the right place, speaking as someone who has been involved in advocating the public understanding of science for over 20 years (I successfully got the teaching of creationism and so-called “Intelligent Design” banned in public school science classes in British Columbia, where I live), I have to regretfully tell him that better science education won’t solve the problem.
Not that good science education isn’t extremely important. It certainly is. Vital even. But, after long experience dealing with creationists (and latterly climate change deniers) and other science deniers, I can attest to the fact that accurate information and comprehension of that information doesn’t help.
It would be different if the people who most need convincing were genuinely curious about what the facts actually are and were questioning in good faith, willing to accept well-established facts when presented with them. But sadly that is not the case with the majority of science deniers/rejectors.
With all the arrogance and unjustified self-assurance that little or no understanding gives them (the Dunning Kruger Effect), those who reject science, who won’t listen to facts and who reject and belittle those people with a deep understanding of science, are motivated not by a quest for knowledge, but by the strong desire to belittle it and bring it down to their level rather than rise to a higher understanding.
Perhaps in their hearts they recognize they are out of their depth and resent the knowledge and scholarship of those who aren’t. But whatever it is that drives such people, the only way to reach them is to show them how what they are doing is hurting them, that who they are listening to and the nonsense those people are spouting is costing them personally.
If still they will not listen, then every effort should be made to shield them from the consequences of their actions, if possible. During the current pandemic, the doubters and scorners are plying their trade; right up to he point where they lose by it. Then they cry out for help. They never seem to realize that they are the authors of their own misfortune. But until that time arrives they are attracted to leaders who pander to their resentments and anger. Such people do not care what the facts are until they are personally adversely affected. And their exploiting leaders (and “influencers) don’t care at all.
So what is needed isn’t better science education. What is needed is for people to be shown how their stubborn and misguided rejection of science and knowledge is hurting them and their loved ones. And if even then they cannot be convinced, they need to be ignored. Because by digging in their heels and insisting they are right in the face of the facts, they are showing that feeling they are right is more important to them than their own lives and they aren’t likely to change until it is far too late.
Sad, but true.
— Scott Goodman is a resident of Courtenay, British Columbia.
I write to reply to the letter from Donald Williams (“Letter: Science literacy would help so much right now,” May 7).
While Mr. Williams’ heart is in the right place, speaking as someone who has been involved in advocating the public understanding of science for over 20 years (I successfully got the teaching of creationism and so-called “Intelligent Design” banned in public school science classes in British Columbia, where I live), I have to regretfully tell him that better science education won’t solve the problem.
Not that good science education isn’t extremely important. It certainly is. Vital even. But, after long experience dealing with creationists (and latterly climate change deniers) and other science deniers, I can attest to the fact that accurate information and comprehension of that information doesn’t help.
It would be different if the people who most need convincing were genuinely curious about what the facts actually are and were questioning in good faith, willing to accept well-established facts when presented with them. But sadly that is not the case with the majority of science deniers/rejectors.
With all the arrogance and unjustified self-assurance that little or no understanding gives them (the Dunning Kruger Effect), those who reject science, who won’t listen to facts and who reject and belittle those people with a deep understanding of science, are motivated not by a quest for knowledge, but by the strong desire to belittle it and bring it down to their level rather than rise to a higher understanding.
Perhaps in their hearts they recognize they are out of their depth and resent the knowledge and scholarship of those who aren’t. But whatever it is that drives such people, the only way to reach them is to show them how what they are doing is hurting them, that who they are listening to and the nonsense those people are spouting is costing them personally.
If still they will not listen, then every effort should be made to shield them from the consequences of their actions, if possible. During the current pandemic, the doubters and scorners are plying their trade; right up to he point where they lose by it. Then they cry out for help. They never seem to realize that they are the authors of their own misfortune. But until that time arrives they are attracted to leaders who pander to their resentments and anger. Such people do not care what the facts are until they are personally adversely affected. And their exploiting leaders (and “influencers) don’t care at all.
So what is needed isn’t better science education. What is needed is for people to be shown how their stubborn and misguided rejection of science and knowledge is hurting them and their loved ones. And if even then they cannot be convinced, they need to be ignored. Because by digging in their heels and insisting they are right in the face of the facts, they are showing that feeling they are right is more important to them than their own lives and they aren’t likely to change until it is far too late.
Sad, but true.
— Scott Goodman is a resident of Courtenay, British Columbia.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
One more time to help Idiot America understand.
Hello Idiot America.
I don't know if you morons for Jeebus visit this place. You probably prefer Christian fucktard websites. But maybe some of you uneducated morons might come here.
This is about Christians (and their Muslim terrorist friends) who want to throw out evolution because that scientific fact conflicts with God/Allah did it.
All Muslims are evolution deniers. If they throw out magical creationism then they have to throw out Islam.
In Idiot America about 50% of the Christians what to throw out all of evolution. The other 50% want to stick Jeebus into evolution. The idea is Jeebus is one of the mechanisms of evolution. Instead of natural selection there is Jeebus selection. To me you're insane and all of you are science deniers. You can't stick your supernatural magic into science. But you're so fucking dense you think that's OK.
This is your problem, Christians: You are wrong, and every biologist and everyone with a brain knows you are wrong. Evolution is how the world works and your god fairy had absolutely nothing to do with it.
We have books about the subject. I bought and read 6 books about the evidence for evolution. When biologists say the evidence is overwhelming they are not making things up. We have science websites including Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Both of these websites have thousands of pages that explain the overwhelming evidence for evolution. And this blog has 426 posts about the evidence for evolution at evidence for evolution.
You fucktards for Jeebus can't exist without god-did-it. You have to throw out evolution or stick Jeebus into it. Growing up makes you cry.
To defend your stupidity you provide anti-science bible-thumping websites or the disgusting dishonest Christian Creationist Discovery Institute, also known as "Crackpot Central".
Real science websites make you cry so you never go there. You do everything you can to know nothing about how evolution works. And it's obvious you know nothing because your dumb questions about it advertise how fucking stupid you are.
You cowards for Jeebus can grow up, educate yourselves, and face facts. Or you can be an asshole for Jeebus for the rest of your pathetic lives. Nobody cares. Just stay away from children FFS.
That's another problem with you assholes. You want your childish ridiculous magical creationism fantasy to have equal time with evolution in a science classroom. Your Christian war against science education is never going to work because we can't throw out the United States Constitution. The Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights: Look it up and at least try to understand it.
That's another problem with you Christians. Your stupidity is overwhelming. Your other problem is you have zero curiosity, and that's why you go out of your way to know nothing.
Never mind. If you're a Christian the brain damage can't be fixed. You're just a waste of time. The world becomes a better place every time you fucktards drop dead.
I don't know if you morons for Jeebus visit this place. You probably prefer Christian fucktard websites. But maybe some of you uneducated morons might come here.
This is about Christians (and their Muslim terrorist friends) who want to throw out evolution because that scientific fact conflicts with God/Allah did it.
All Muslims are evolution deniers. If they throw out magical creationism then they have to throw out Islam.
In Idiot America about 50% of the Christians what to throw out all of evolution. The other 50% want to stick Jeebus into evolution. The idea is Jeebus is one of the mechanisms of evolution. Instead of natural selection there is Jeebus selection. To me you're insane and all of you are science deniers. You can't stick your supernatural magic into science. But you're so fucking dense you think that's OK.
This is your problem, Christians: You are wrong, and every biologist and everyone with a brain knows you are wrong. Evolution is how the world works and your god fairy had absolutely nothing to do with it.
We have books about the subject. I bought and read 6 books about the evidence for evolution. When biologists say the evidence is overwhelming they are not making things up. We have science websites including Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Both of these websites have thousands of pages that explain the overwhelming evidence for evolution. And this blog has 426 posts about the evidence for evolution at evidence for evolution.
You fucktards for Jeebus can't exist without god-did-it. You have to throw out evolution or stick Jeebus into it. Growing up makes you cry.
To defend your stupidity you provide anti-science bible-thumping websites or the disgusting dishonest Christian Creationist Discovery Institute, also known as "Crackpot Central".
Real science websites make you cry so you never go there. You do everything you can to know nothing about how evolution works. And it's obvious you know nothing because your dumb questions about it advertise how fucking stupid you are.
You cowards for Jeebus can grow up, educate yourselves, and face facts. Or you can be an asshole for Jeebus for the rest of your pathetic lives. Nobody cares. Just stay away from children FFS.
That's another problem with you assholes. You want your childish ridiculous magical creationism fantasy to have equal time with evolution in a science classroom. Your Christian war against science education is never going to work because we can't throw out the United States Constitution. The Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights: Look it up and at least try to understand it.
That's another problem with you Christians. Your stupidity is overwhelming. Your other problem is you have zero curiosity, and that's why you go out of your way to know nothing.
Never mind. If you're a Christian the brain damage can't be fixed. You're just a waste of time. The world becomes a better place every time you fucktards drop dead.
Sunday, April 12, 2020
I wrote this about 9 years ago. It's about the know-nothing bible-thumping morons who want to throw out science. These assholes for Jeebus are just plain fucking stupid. There is no cure.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Creationists will always be creationists because they can't be convinced by reason and evidence.
It's a complete waste of time to explain evidence for evolution to a Christian or Muslim science denier. They are not interested in the evidence. They have no desire to understand evidence. They are not able to understand evidence. Instead of at least trying to understand scientific evidence, if they don't completely ignore it, they assume it's wrong and so they invent problems with it, but what they think are problems are really misconceptions. They just don't get it. Perhaps if they really tried to understand there could be some progress, but the last thing a science denier will ever do is try to understand what he's denying.
Of course their problem is their religious indoctrination, but that's not the most important reason they can't grow up. Creationists are creationists because they're just plain stupid.
Try showing a Bible thumper or a terrorist this paragraph from the Encyclopedia Britannica and see what happens.
The authority of this kind of test is overwhelming; each of the thousands of genes and thousands of proteins contained in an organism provides an independent test of that organism’s evolutionary history. Not all possible tests have been performed, but many hundreds have been done, and not one has given evidence contrary to evolution. There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms.
If creationists were normal instead of insane they would probably want to do some research to find out why the best encyclopedia in the world would write something like "There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms."
But creationists have no curiosity. They don't want to know anything. Curiosity is a natural characteristic of our species. Our curiosity is why we have learned so much about the world and the universe we live in. Creationists don't have it. Their curiosity was sucked out of them thanks to several years of relentless religious brainwashing. There's no cure. It's a terrible pathetic waste of a life but nothing can be done for these brain damaged tards.
Creationists will always be creationists because they can't be convinced by reason and evidence.
It's a complete waste of time to explain evidence for evolution to a Christian or Muslim science denier. They are not interested in the evidence. They have no desire to understand evidence. They are not able to understand evidence. Instead of at least trying to understand scientific evidence, if they don't completely ignore it, they assume it's wrong and so they invent problems with it, but what they think are problems are really misconceptions. They just don't get it. Perhaps if they really tried to understand there could be some progress, but the last thing a science denier will ever do is try to understand what he's denying.
Of course their problem is their religious indoctrination, but that's not the most important reason they can't grow up. Creationists are creationists because they're just plain stupid.
Try showing a Bible thumper or a terrorist this paragraph from the Encyclopedia Britannica and see what happens.
The authority of this kind of test is overwhelming; each of the thousands of genes and thousands of proteins contained in an organism provides an independent test of that organism’s evolutionary history. Not all possible tests have been performed, but many hundreds have been done, and not one has given evidence contrary to evolution. There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms.
If creationists were normal instead of insane they would probably want to do some research to find out why the best encyclopedia in the world would write something like "There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms."
But creationists have no curiosity. They don't want to know anything. Curiosity is a natural characteristic of our species. Our curiosity is why we have learned so much about the world and the universe we live in. Creationists don't have it. Their curiosity was sucked out of them thanks to several years of relentless religious brainwashing. There's no cure. It's a terrible pathetic waste of a life but nothing can be done for these brain damaged tards.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Christian morons like to advertise their stupidity.
An asshole for Jeebus wrote this know-nothing anti-science bullshit:
The main reason I can't fully agree with evolution is just how complex some of life is. Eyeballs, for example, could not have evolved. It's simply impossible. The number of parts that all have to work together flawlessly would never have evolved together in the right unison for natural selection to decide "Yeah, let's keep this."
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Every complaint about evolution is always the same: "Complexity therefore the Magic Man did it."
The eyeball thing: Charles Darwin explained how it evolved and here in the 21st century we know how exactly how the eye evolved. Evolution by natural selection is how the world works. The magic god fairy's magic wand was never necessary for anything.
Why is Idiot America infested with millions of science deniers? Science education sucks in this country. Most of our biology teachers know nothing about evolution. The other problem is Americans are god-soaked and hopelessly stupid. And they have zero curiosity. They go out of their way to know nothing.
The main reason I can't fully agree with evolution is just how complex some of life is. Eyeballs, for example, could not have evolved. It's simply impossible. The number of parts that all have to work together flawlessly would never have evolved together in the right unison for natural selection to decide "Yeah, let's keep this."
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Every complaint about evolution is always the same: "Complexity therefore the Magic Man did it."
The eyeball thing: Charles Darwin explained how it evolved and here in the 21st century we know how exactly how the eye evolved. Evolution by natural selection is how the world works. The magic god fairy's magic wand was never necessary for anything.
Why is Idiot America infested with millions of science deniers? Science education sucks in this country. Most of our biology teachers know nothing about evolution. The other problem is Americans are god-soaked and hopelessly stupid. And they have zero curiosity. They go out of their way to know nothing.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Saturday, February 1, 2020
I never met a creationist (aka evolution denier) who had any curiosity about the science that makes them cry. These assholes for Jeebus go out of their way to know nothing.
"It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is they are opposing."
-- Richard Dawkins
This blog has 133 posts with the label "Richard Dawkins" at Richard Dawkins. I recommend reading some of it. Very interesting stuff.
-- Richard Dawkins
This blog has 133 posts with the label "Richard Dawkins" at Richard Dawkins. I recommend reading some of it. Very interesting stuff.
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