The claim is "there are no pure cultures". Is this claim falsifiable? Yes. One could disprove it by demonstrating a culture that never had any mixing. This cl

The claim is "there are no pure cultures". Is this claim falsifiable? Yes. One could disprove it by demonstrating a culture that never had any mixing. This claim is very different from the claim "nothing new about that", which is a classic straw man. The author offers some evidence for all this mixing. One can argue about the quantitatively nature of it, but not the qualitative. Human cultures qualify for what can be described as intermixed. Again, all we need to do to disprove this claim is present one pure culture. So, yeah, there's a lot that changed from newspapers to phones, but there is also an undeniable trend that connects them. That's why it's not a falacy per se, but similar claims could be falacious. Trying to come up with a falsifiable scenario for the _specific claim_ is what settles the matter.