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Baffling, the liberties taken by this article trying to link ‘current’ discrepancies using correlated variables from well over 500 years ago. Without mentioning

Baffling, the liberties taken by this article trying to link ‘current’ discrepancies using correlated variables from well over 500 years ago. Without mentioning trivialities such as evolution of religious beliefs, history or totalitarian regimes, industrial changes of 17th century or Industrial Revolution. Not to mention the generalisations and lack of definitions (unless I missed an appendix). It really shows that in order to perform interdisciplinary research you not only need competency in both but also understanding how those toolkits interconnect.

acqq 7y ago
> correlated variables from well over 500 years ago Not to mention that ithe reliability of inputs is completely ignored. If one would try to honestly estimate the error bars for all that, it should be obvious that the data for most of the places can’t be used for any such analysis and even less to draw any conclusions, especially not to support current policies. It’s something produced with an agenda and it shows.