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cogman10last Wednesday at 3:35 PM1 replyview on HN

He has a lot of weird anti establishment takes. For example, that evolution isn't real [1]

I'm not 100% on the reasons. Seems like he simply has a lot of hubris.

[1] https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/fos...


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leereeveslast Wednesday at 4:31 PM

> that evolution isn't real

That's another misrepresentation. In that link he says "To be fair, there’s still plenty of evidence for evolution."

It sounds like he's a skeptic who demands proof of the things we're not supposed to question. That's a good thing.

But some people don't like it and misrepresent his words to try to discredit him.

Edit: I agree that Adams is not a scientist and doesn't understand how science works. That article gets an F in my book. Nonetheless, suggesting that asking questions is the same as claiming something "isn't real" is, itself, an anti-scientific view.

I don't know about fossils, but a lot of current scientific thinking probably is still wrong. We recently had a big scientific revolution when genetic sequencing revealed that much of the thinking at that time was wrong.

Also, it's absurd to interpret his comedic exaggerations literally.

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