Time to reject the common claim that schizophrenia/psychosis is "80% heritable." My new (paywalled) article in the Review of General Psychology:
"The 'schizophrenia is 80% heritable' fallacy: Deconstructing a twin study meta-analysis."
doi.org/10.1177/1089...
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
I imagine that this all looks like a long-awaited dream come true for the apocalyptic millenarianists in the Trump admin. In their eyes, the more hellish, the better.
This is disgusting, but also a tacit admission of just how horrible and indefensible it is.
It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die
Had to doublecheck the date on this
Jewish Voice for Peace denounces the immoral and illegal war on Iran launched by the United States and Israel last night. These attacks expand the endless wars that could destroy the lives of tens of millions of people.
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
For those still interested, "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016) tells a false story about twin research and the genetics of psychiatric conditions. See my 2019 article.
www.madinamerica.com/2019/12/twin...
From the occupied West Bank to Gaza, the Israeli government is committing ethnic cleansing. We will not look away.
Inspired, in part, by the founder of the psychiatric genetics field, Ernst Rüdin, and his followers in the "Munich school" of psychiatric genetics. At that time, it was the only school of psychiatric genetics.
bsky.app/profile/jayj...
Regime following the eugenics of F. Galton and followers such as psychologist R. Cattell in his 1973 book "Beyondism." The APA tried to give Cattell a 1997 "Lifetime Achievement Award," despite his having called for "phasing out" allegedly "moribund cultures." www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03...
Because they undoubtedly also believed that "anti-social behavior" and "sociopathy" are as "heritable" as IQ, did Epstein and his politician/billionaire/royal friends worry about passing their own genes down to the next generation?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
🇻🇪 Venezuelan oil to Israel?
The U.S. is seizing Venezuelan oil through intermediary companies & taking sales outside of Venezuelan control.
Now, they are hijacking shipments headed to Cuba & redirecting them to fuel genocide in Gaza against the will of the Venezuelan people.
🇨🇺 The US is trying to starve 10 million Cubans.
We are bringing 2,500lbs of lentils to Cuba to break this criminal and genocidal blockade.
LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA NOW
1990s books and articles by William H. Tucker are outstanding, and include some interesting insider information.
I can get back with more later. For now, here is a 1942 IQ test used by doctors in Germany to support the "clinical execution" of an 11-year-old German boy. From the 1994 edited book, "Cleansing the Fatherland" (G. Aly et al.).
World turned upside down: 1) Jews protesting genocide are "anti-Semites"; 2) U.S. citizens trying to stop ethnic cleansing are "terrorists"; and 3) "The Mismeasure of Man" is "an example of pseudoscience about race and IQ," and (presumably) Murray's "The Bell Curve" isn't.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
So the homicide was premeditated. Planned in advance. Agents knew they wanted to kill him, so they prepared for the opportunity and took it.
Thanks for helping NYT.
This Bruce anti-ICE anthem is gonna leave a mark:
ICE OUT 0F EVERYWHERE JOIN OUR NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH MINNESOTA. ABOLISH ICE NOW! JAN 30 BLACKOUT-DON'T WORK. DON'T SHOP. SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY. JAN 31 PROTEST HIT THE STREETS. MAKE NOISE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE JAN 31 PROTEST. HIT THE STREETS. MAKE NOISE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
ICE OUT! NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN! NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. JAN 30, 2026 SIGN ON TO JOIN US: NationalShutdown.us
On 1/30 we are shutting it down, and, on 1/31, we are gathering across the country to demand ICE Out of Everywhere, permanently!
A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
They murder a man in cold blood and wait around to watch him die. There is no hell hot enough. Abolish DHS. Impeach, convict, remove. Trials as soon as possible.
This is really is a great piece, and Kevin makes an important point in it: “the data was made vulnerable because our scientific institutions assume good faith in people. There needs to be an acknowledgment that there are bad-faith researchers. The rules and regulations need to catch up with that”
Thank you for this excellent article. If you decide to write a follow-up to this story, I suggest looking into the "high IQ heritability" pseudoscience that race scientists cite in support of their claims, which mainly consists of twin studies.
The Pioneer Fund was also the main funder of the Minn. Study of Twins Reared Apart. The researchers suppressed their control group results not only to match their IQ-hereditarian confirmation biases, but also to please their funders.
jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/iq-heredit...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Tim Walz: “Minnesota has had it.”
