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Wikipedia COULD be championing literacy. Its editor coalition is too concerned about holding power to focus on demand generation through education.

No surprise when millions upon millions of illegal immigrants minorities are allowed to dwell in US housing when most childbearing-age Americans don't have space and national resources to have kids.

Goes along with longstanding schemes to suppress research about differential effects of melanocyte-stimulating hormone, melanin-concentrating hormone, and melanocortin systems.

Bigots have the hardest time imagining medical protocols and work structures that account for racial differences without bigotry.


Nobody holds teachers and school administrators accountable. If administrators' bad policies were persistently criticized and mocked at the school level by students, and adminsitrators' families were scorned for supporting local failure and degeneration, districts would change..

The only way Microsoft can effectively keep Copilot superior is to THOROUGHLY test it against Claude at enterprise scale..

Surprised more student activists aren't strongly protesting administrators who let teachers pass them without knowing what they need.

In my experience of University much of student activism was done by students who struggled the most academically and often made it part of their agenda to ease academic standards.

You had an outlier experience, unfortunately. I went to a state school, and most of even my student government class wound up prominently in the Congress or White House.

Why do you think that it is a given that politicians perform better in school? Here in Germany many prominent politicians were academic failures or dropouts.

We had student council elections, where the candidates were listed by degree and the semester, the trend was overwhelmingly that the candidates were in semesters after the usual graduation date, often having studied for more then 5 years.


> Why do you think that it is a given that politicians perform better in school?

Non sequitur? Where was this even remotely claimed?


I said that student activists struggled academically, your counter point was that at your school student activists made it into high political offices.

What other interpretation of your words could there be except you believing that people in high political offices are above average students.


So...the place where conspiracy theories about elites like Pizzagate germinated was created the day it's founder met Epstein?

Sounds like the far right is reactionary against actual elite corruption..


It shouldn't be news that aquaporin-1, transcribed with CRHR2 and INMT, has complementary effects to MAPT transcribed with CRHR1 and BRCA1 ..

What if access to basic knowledge wasn't considered dangerous, and scientists had better methods in place for centralizing critique of articles?

This reels of professionals too used to sticking their heads in the sand to introduce conflict to situations that warrant it.


Into the World of Bene Gesserit "Voice"-like manipulation

Processed foods and sleep deprivation!

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