3 ms·
I think the simple answer is that it's clickbait. A while back there was a relatively well-known pop science magazine with a cover story "Darwin Was Wrong". I'm
by 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
I think the simple answer is that it's clickbait. A while back there was a relatively well-known pop science magazine with a cover story "Darwin Was Wrong". I'm having trouble finding the actual article now since the title is such a common phrase. It turned out to be something like him being wrong about the "tree of life" because genetic studies proved that horizontal gene transfer was extremely common in the earliest generations, hence there's no single common ancestor or "trunk". Not, as any reasonable person might conjecture from that headline, a debunking of the overall theory of evolution by natural selection.
- emodendroket 9y agoI don't see how crypto-currency dogma is on the same level with evolution. It seems to me a lot of the criticisms have been borne out. Bitcoins are worth a lot to speculators but they remain infrequently used as an actual currency.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y ago> I don't see how crypto-currency dogma is on the same level with evolution. That's not a claim I have any interest in. I'm just drawing the parallel of an article "debunking" someone while actually agreeing with their central thesis.
- ldite 9y agoNational Geographic, fwiw: https://i.imgur.com/GGKLx.jpg https://i.imgur.com/GGKLx.jpg
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoI was thinking of a different one, an article in New Scientist. The full title of the article is apparently "Darwin was Wrong About the Tree of Life", but the cover much more prominently featured "Darwin was Wrong". [1] [2] [1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921-600-why-darwin-was-wrong-about-the-tree-of-life/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921-600-why-darw... [2] https://www.newscientist.com/issue/2692%20/ https://www.newscientist.com/issue/2692%20/
- 0xfeba 9y agoI remember that. And creationists the world around started using that cover as proof they were right.