Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens

Re:Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens by kergonath on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:48PM (#29453074)

All sorts of quacks still get tenure. There’s always a university willing to accept most heterodox views.

I see regularly comments along those lines on the Internet. I’d like some examples of “unpublishable scientific theories” that are not obviously bunk, as opposed to just controversial. Otherwise it is mostly a convenient bogeyman for bunk mongers.

Also, replicability seems a strange concern for this field. We’re never going to have an Earth Mk2 to test hypotheses.

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Re:Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens by fallingknife on Sunday December 05, 2021 @04:40PM (#29453584)

Here's an example:

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...

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Re:Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens by kergonath on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:14PM (#29454314)

Fascinating case. Quite a lot of emotions as well. I am not going to derail the discussion, though, as this leads to a deep rabbit hole.

To stay on topic, this is not an example of career-ending article, because he’s already retired, and nevertheless still affiliated with both Georgia Tech and California Polytechnic State University. He also himself says that the un-acceptance of his article is unprecedented, so this is hardly representative of anything.

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Re:Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens by fallingknife on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:33AM (#29457174)

Yes this was an unprecedented case because it was rejected after being peer reviewed and accepted. If they are going that far to censor inconvenient truth imagine how often good papers are rejected in review or not even written in the first place because the would be author knows what would happen.

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