• GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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    6 days ago

    I know that “brain damage made me conservative” is sort of a meme, but this has happened to several friends and family of mine over the years. It’s happened enough that I seriously think there’s something to it.

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      5 days ago

      Richard Dawkins, the esteemed biologist that coined the term “meme,” suffered a stroke and started going hard on “there are only two sexes.” Setting aside that gender =/= sex, how does a biologist not remember bimodal models are not clear dichotomies