Nathan Lents at CFI: ID and Science Denial

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Yes, I believe I was the first to notice the dodgy chart, at least on PS.

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I knew he died. Shit, did I say something I shouldnā€™t have? lol But I thought for sure he was involved in the founding. Hmm. Oh well, this will give the DI plenty to say that I got wrong in the inevitable articles they write about me, lol.

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The place where you can distinguish yourself is by quickly acknowledging and rightly explaining how it didnā€™t affect your main point :wink: .

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I tried to do shout outs to Art and Josh. Got tripped up here and there. Josh, how did I pronounce your name? hahaha

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I believe you used the present tense when talking about Johnsonā€™s faculty position. A small thing that no one probably would catch.

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I think you just referred to him in the present tense at one point - something like ā€œJohnson is a professorā€¦ā€

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Ah ok. Oh well.

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Honestly, he was a pretty nice guy too. I was lucky to have met him. He was important in the origin of IDM, but I donā€™t think he can be blamed for much since his stroke over a decade ago, which took him largely out of the game.

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Nice, engaging talk, @NLENTS.

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To be fair, I think @Art led the way on the APOB stuff.

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Thanks friend. And shit, I think I said Richard Paley instead of William. Damn it. lol

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It was all verbal, so mistakes like that happen. No worries.

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Could have been worse - like Richard Petty.

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I hosted a virtual colloquium speaker last week and misstated his postdoc advisorā€™s name, even though I know it well. Names are surprisingly easy to misstate while speaking contemporaneously.

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What about my name @nlents? :slight_smile:

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How did I pronounce it?? hahaha Glenn Branch just emailed me with a bunch of small corrections. So much for getting all the details right! haha. Nothing major, though, and all in the historical stuff.

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Yep, just read this thread to jog my memory. Iā€™ll drop a blog post later today or Monday and spread more credit around for the polar bear work. I remember staying up until 3a that night reading the Liu paper and writing the blog post, but I forgot how much of a team effort it was to go through it all. Iā€™ll also correct the misstatements I made about the early history of the DI. All minor stuff, but as @swamidass says, itā€™s worth it to admit mistakes quickly. :slight_smile:

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Or Adele Dazeem.

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This thread was also very interesting:

Basically, none of the variants being discussed found their way into the finished polar bear genome.

This whole episode was/is a great example of teamwork - many participants here contributed.

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Okay, I heard it now. I pronounced it Swamidass when it should actually be pronounced Swamidass. :wink:

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