Reviewing Karl Marx
By whatever accidents of history, the otherwise obscure German Jewish Karl Marx became an internationally known hero and villain (depending on your view). I was somewhat familiar with his ideas…
The politics of sociology
Consider the following quote: Sociology has recently been subject to a severe critique by Alvin Gouldner (1970), who has repeated and sought to document the charge that the theoretical orientations…
The fire brigade: Ewan Birney to the rescue
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1265724131112357888 Ewan Birney, "Director of EMBL-EBI with an insatiable love of biology; small research group on genomics research.". He earlier embarrased himself by writing a zero-sources, full of errors pseudoscientific…