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Paul Braterman
Personal blog · paulbraterman.wordpress.comscienceculture
Paul Braterman writes Primate's Progress, a personal blog at paulbraterman.wordpress.com about science and culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Neither comment links or discusses this blog's writing. The threads concern Michael Gove's remarks on teaching genetics and thermodynamics, and whether scientists should debate creationists or RFK Jr.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Exploring Science, Explaining Evolution, Exposing Creationism
What Hacker News says?
People flagged it, because the discussion has been had on HN before and it tends to go poorly. This submission also involves the hateful Gove, a clueless fuckwit of the highest order. ( http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/jun/18/michael-gov... ) Here's another article from The Grauniad involving Gove, who calls for a return to teaching "Newton's laws of thermodynamics". The Guardian make no mention of that err…
Comment linking /2013/06/19/newton-thermodynamics-boyles-law-and-the-basics-a-lesson-for-michael-gove/
on “Genetics outweighs teaching, Gove adviser tells his boss”Submitted Tall el-Hammam; an airburst of gullibility; it gets worse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe can draw parallels to why biologists (at least in general) don't accept these sorts of oral "debates" with creationists. Quoting https://creationwiki.org/Evolutionists_don%27t_accept_debate... > The proper venue for debating scientific issues is at science conferences and in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In such a venue, the claims can be checked by anyone at their leisure. Creationists, with very rare excep…
Comment linking /2014/12/20/why-i-wont-debate-with-a-creationist-and-what-to-do-instead/
on “Dr. Peter Hotez offered $600K for charity to debate RFK Jr. on JRE podcast”
