Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
CORRECTION via sofiarune (who is awesome) in the comments:
"Henry Harpending was the one who did the Natural History of Ashkenazi Jews thing. Bruce Lahn was the one who was published in Nature (or Science, can't remember) about microcephalin which was what Richardson dissected most sexily."
Original description follows:
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Seriously, this article might have been barely relevant in 2003 (though the same criticisms would still apply). Now? Not so much.
'Are the "New Atheists" Bigoted Tools of Empire?'
alternet.org/belief/are-new-atheists-bigoted-tools-empire?paging=off
Please retweet this if you feel this is a reply the author should hear:
twitter.com/stealthbadger/status/319601551834492928
Also, I will be at Devchelle's Madness, Mayhem, and Charity event at 2pm on Saturday. I'll be fresh from doing Clinic Escort work at Planned Parenthood, so I'll be sure to have lots of pithy things to say. Promo video from me up tomorrow.
youtube.com/watch?v=awTLTo5ATlc
CORRECTION via sofiarune (who is awesome) in the comments:
"Henry Harpending was the one who did the Natural History of Ashkenazi Jews thing. Bruce Lahn was the one who was published in Nature (or Science, can't remember) about microcephalin which was what Richardson dissected most sexily."
Original description follows:
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Seriously, this article might have been barely relevant in 2003 (though the same criticisms would still apply). Now? Not so much.
'Are the "New Atheists" Bigoted Tools of Empire?'
alternet.org/belief/are-new-atheists-bigoted-tools-empire?paging=off
Please retweet this if you feel this is a reply the author should hear:
twitter.com/stealthbadger/status/319601551834492928
Also, I will be at Devchelle's Madness, Mayhem, and Charity event at 2pm on Saturday. I'll be fresh from doing Clinic Escort work at Planned Parenthood, so I'll be sure to have lots of pithy things to say. Promo video from me up tomorrow.
youtube.com/watch?v=awTLTo5ATlc
