Mel Cosentino, PhD

Very happy & excited to announce the launching of a new website dedicated to harbour porpoises! Follow @PorpoiseLady for everything porpoise-related and to not miss any updates: There'll be loads of cools facts & interviews with awesome researchers! Let your #PorpoiseLove show🥰

@Impatient_Brian @EricsElectrons "Truth is the most ideologically burdened concept" how so? can you give an example? eg using the scientific method to figure out what's true (objective reality) - where is the ideology there?

@melanthropics @EricsElectrons You seem to distinguish between people who obey a set of beliefs from people who see the truth. Truth is the most ideologically burdened concept. We all employ an ideological framework to grope tentatively for truth. Some ideologies are repugnant because they endorse bad actions

Even better: do not subscribe to any ideology. Go and think about ideas and judge them for their own merit. Takes time and energy, but you won't be supporting or rejecting ideas just because of what your ideology says.

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@Impatient_Brian @EricsElectrons I think we use diff def of "ideology". I see it as a set of ideas, beliefs, & values that are dogmatic & rank higher than knowledge/truth. Eg. someone identifies as far right; now we know they're Trumpist, pro life, christian, antiimmigration, antiglobalist, pro markets... You?

@melanthropics @EricsElectrons Your very belief system is an ideological construction. Centrism, principles and values are rooted in ideology. You don't get to claim immunity from ideology. No one does. And saying this does not make an idealogue. It just makes me a human, like all others.

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@Impatient_Brian @EricsElectrons That's what an ideologue would think. Like those who can't believe someone can be a centrist. Having principles and values to guide you is not the same as subscribing to an ideology.

@melanthropics @EricsElectrons Those who claim to be be free of ideology are like fish who can't see the water they swim in

Also, feigning knowledge and proving they lack it. Some claim "correlation is not causation" about RCT and "self-reports are not reliable" about things that cannot be (easily) studied otherwise while fully trusting their own personal experience or anecdotes.

Human brain vs. dolphin brain

Soooooo bad on so many levels. Rather speechless right now - and super disgusted 🤢

Except when, you know, they killed everything they found: 72% of megafauna gone in North America, y 82% in Latin America in <3000 years after humans got there. Same Australia. and Eurasia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Plei…

@peterboghossian @NotTheSame_Cord only available for those with instagram account 😕

@NotTheSame_Cord Did you not watch the video?

What is your best argument for allowing these individuals to remain in Western society? No strawman’s. No sarcasm. All responses must take them at their word. (Legal arguments are fine, but moral, empirical, social, etc. arguments are far better.) See if you can do it.

Romantic love so white. Ppl who propogate this stuff are so "counter-racist'. When they identify Universal human behaviors and phenomenon as "colonialist" they are literally denying the humanity of non-european cultures and societies.

"Inspirational quote (with caveats)" Dr Mel Cosentino

Sometimes when the weather is crappy I like to grab some of my images and put them in nice little groups. Here are some of the galaxies I have imaged over the last 9 months. Mostly from Melbourne, a few from Hawaii. All on the Seestar S50 smart telescope.

@DoctorLockwood The government collects taxes & uses it to fund whatever it is it funds (roads, politicians, researchers). whether it does so with old pieces of paper or new ones is irrelevant. not to mention that the majority of transactions are digital now. not sure what he thinks he said

@melanthropics Lol say more

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Karl Marx never bathed and had boils all over his body, was an alcoholic, had an unpaid maid whom he might have r*ped (he certainly got her pregnant, despite what Wikipedia says). He smoked so much it killed one of his babies (which he left in the family bed - the only one they had - because he was too lazy to get a job to afford to bury it), and he made his aristocratic wife depressed and turn to drink. Two of his surviving daughters committed suic*de, and the only child to survive into old age was the boy he fathered to the maid, who didn't live with Marx and was therefore the only sane one. Engels and other family, friends and neighbours had to constantly give Marx money throughout his life because he never did anything productive. He had to beg and borrow, and sent his wife off to do the same. He worked briefly as a article writer for a newspaper, but never had another job and couldn't provide for his family, despite their need, and despite him being more than capable of working. He was constantly in debt, and because he didn't pay his rent the bailiffs took away the family furniture, even the crib. They owed everyone, even the bakers and the milkmen. Yet Marx still refused to work! And to top it off, Marx was wrong about everything. We know this because his fairytale predictions about the future have simply not come true, and were proven to be wrong during his lifetime and not long after his death (e.g. by Eduard Bernstein). His policies have led to misery for billions of people, and death to many tens of millions. Why anyone pines over this monster is beyond me. And if Karl Marx is the best "social theorist" we've ever had, then it's no wonder society is parasitical and anti-life. You should care whether he was wrong or not, but you won't because the socialist faith turns people into sleepwalking NPCs.

This is not at all embarrassing and terrifying at the same time 😬

@HPluckrose I think Ayesha is funding you... very very chatty with you!

Oh gawd, that'll be fun.