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HISTORY BEING REWRITTEN The Pirate is plugging misinformation by dismissing all the truthful eye witness accounts of indigenous Australians recorded by thousands of people, over a hundreds of years Here he is pretending they were equivalent to the Aztecs and Egyptians for making fishing baskets - which are apparently comparable to the Chichen Itza and the Pyramids Oh and aboriginals invented bread and were environmental crusaders. Completely untrue “Fitz: Speaking to your theme, I imagine that most Australians have inherited a false view: that Aboriginal people before colonisation were jumped-up cave people, when in reality they possessed one of the world’s oldest and most sophisticated scientific knowledge systems. Is that a fair way of putting it? Corey Tutt is the founder of DeadlyScience, which aims to encourage young Indigenous students to pursue careers in science, maths, engineering and technology. CT: Yes. And I would add that I think the first colonists putting out that false notion was likely by design, right? It’s much easier to be cruel to people when you think they’re less than you. Fitz: Go on. CT: If you think that Aboriginal culture is a primitive culture, go to a supermarket, go and find some tea-tree oil. That’s a black fella medicine. They were the first people in the world to invent bread. They built one of the world’s oldest surviving man-made structures, the Brewarrina fish traps. They could tell coming weather patterns by the twinkling of the stars. This country’s First Peoples had this amazing culture, similar to the Aztecs, similar to the Egyptians, similar to the Romans, similar to Europeans. But theirs was knowledge through a different lens with a particular focus on sustaining themselves within their environment.”

It’s amazing how Anthropology keeps proving that the Vanderbilt report was right about it. The president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) says the field is open to debate. Then she’s asked about a panel on “Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic Category in Anthropology” that the AAA canceled in 2023. The interviewer reports that “the AAA said at the time that the panel would have harmed members’ ‘safety and dignity,’ and that its premise contradicted ‘settled science.’” The AAA president says, “we know, factually, that there are different types of ‘sexes’ and ‘genders’” and that teaching otherwise is “the equivalent of turning an astronomy department into an astrology department.” She adds (regarding the panel): “It should never have been accepted. At this point, we are demanding that people do good peer review, because that’s what happened — they slacked on the peer review.” The interviewer: “There was a survey in 2022, published in the journal Forensic Anthropology, that asked forensic anthropologists about this question, and 42 percent of them said they agree that sex is binary, and 56 percent disagreed that it’s binary. So that ratio would seem to indicate that, in the field, the question hadn’t actually been settled.” AAA President: “I don’t believe in opinion research.” The interviewer: “In the AAA’s response to the Vanderbilt report, you wrote that anthropology contains ‘vigorous and ongoing debates about theory, evidence, ethics, method, public engagement, and the future of the discipline itself.’ Is there any contradiction between those stated values and the cancellation of the panel in 2023?” AAA President: “Rigorous debate with factual information, or rigorous debate with just people who like to troll people on social media? […] I don’t think we’re contradicting ourselves. I think that that panel might never have made it into the program, if it had been peer-reviewed properly.” It was generous of the Chronicle to use a question mark in the headline for this interview.

Insiders panel says the quiet part out loud: "He wants to make all those Indian Australians his voters" "There is an electoral advantage there for the prime minster"

BTW, China has 4 times the US's, but if you count young girls, the ratio is almost as low as 2:1. Chinese people in their 50s outnumber Americans in their 50s by over 5:1. China has ~10-20 years before they basically stop growing economically because of demographic headwinds

As far as I can tell, the most notable political science results of the 21st century is democracy cannot work well with low fertility rates. All converge on prioritizing retirees over workers and immigrants over citizens escalating social transfers beyond sustainability.

every new british PM approaches the job like it’s an oral exam at oxbridge. always a grand strategy. brother you’ve just been appointed captain of a ship that’s halfway to the seabed and you have 90 days to get it headed back up or they’re going to cook you in a big pot