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Matti Sironen retweeted
It is impossible to project a globe onto a sheet of paper without compromise. Distances, areas, directions and angles cannot all be preserved at once. Something must be sacrificed when three dimensions are forced into two.
Hence, there is nothing improper about preferring one map projection over another.
But the quarrel over the Mercator projection soon becomes identity politics. And so it inherits every vice of that style of argument: it is anachronistic, reductionist, and charged with unspoken insinuations about colonial guilt and the inherited sin of white people.
The Mercator projection of 1569 was a stroke of genius for the purpose it was meant to serve.
Mercator’s map was a navigational instrument. Its decisive property was that it rendered directions and angles truly: a line of constant compass bearing appears as a straight line.
To secure that property, a faithful representation of area had to be given up. But as already said: one cannot have everything when a sphere must be drawn as a plane. One has to choose.
It is therefore almost intolerable to hear the insinuation that Mercator was some kind of racist, intent on striking Africans with an inflated Greenland.
We should honour Gerardus Mercator for what he was: one of the great cartographers in the history of the craft.
The author of a projection whose charts, for centuries, helped generations of seafarers across the open ocean - long before longitude could be determined with any reliability at sea.
Scarlett Johansson changed her magnesium supplement routine after a spray left her feet feeling dry miamiherald.com/living/artic…
Matti Sironen retweeted
The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.
The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University.
Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired.
The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
"What value Cofnas and his heretical 'race science' to academia", ask now the racist-finder-generals who made sure everyone else was too afraid of being branded a heretic to expose a serial plagiarist and fabulist.
Matti Sironen retweeted
Naisen määrittelemiseksi joudutaan ensin ratkaisemaan CMI:n miljoonan dollarin Millennium-ongelmat, joista toistaiseksi on ratkennut vasta Poincare-konjektuuri. Mies voidaan määritellä jo alakoulussa.
Spandex ajoi kerran naapurin maitotilan ohi, jonka jälkeen jokainen ulkona laitumella ollut lehmä oli maho. Lisäksi noitui autolla ohi ajaneen kylänmiehen niin pahasti, ettei tämä loppuelämässään väistämissääntöjä muistanut. Hirteen joutaisi moiset pelsepuupit.
Matti Sironen retweeted
Voi armias näitä juutalaisvainoilla ratsastavia vihapuheenmetsästäjiä.
Yhtä eksyksissä historiallisesti kuin pihalla sananvapaudesta.
teapaw.org/i/status/1891225589052…
Former ACLU President and @TheFIREorg Senior Fellow on the “Weimar fallacy.”
Nadine’s father was a Holocaust survivor.
Matti Sironen retweeted
1) Thanks for replying
2) The first problem with your reply is that you did reject tests: you questioned the need for them in the case of Khelif (below)
3) Instead of giving some credibility to the sex tests carried out by the IBA in accredited labs, you chose to believe and repeat a conspiratorial conjecture that these were somehow fabricated.
4) You endlessly praised Khelif and Lin Yu ting. You described the Paris competition as an 'atrocity' and an 'ordeal' - which is accurate, but you meant that it was an atrocity for Khelif, not for the women he hit.
5) You denounced, frequently, venomously, and misogynistically, those like @jk_rowling who highlighted the real atrocity here. (You are continuing with these childish and demeaning attacks). Your schtick was to pose as a boxing insider, an expert, who was explaining to the stupid and 'hysterical' outsiders what was really going on. But you couldn't recognise or call out what was going on in front of your eyes.
6) Had you taken this seriously, you would be able to reach for words now, that you had uttered then. An expression of caution, a recognition of concern, a proposal for delay and reform. You can't produce such words, because you didn't utter them. You were a gung ho supporter of Khelif, not an impartial, critical commentator.
7) All the evidence now being produced like this
teapaw.org/ripx4nutmeg/status/181…
doesn't fully convey the way that you continuously shilled for the IOC. I listened to @BBCSport through the games: you pushed out propaganda and apologias endlessly, for Khelif, the IOC and the Algerian government.
8) You try to excuse this by pointing to the undoubted corruption in the IBA. But there is no reason to think that the tests themselves were corrupt, and the intellectual corruption of the IOC policy of 'passport sex' was plain to see. You said nothing about this.
9) At no time then or now have you paused to ask yourself 'What if I'm wrong?' Obviously, this is a difficult question, because the answer is: 'I watched men hitting women in the ring, and justified it, rather than condemning it. Instead, the people I condemned were those who tried to stop it.' That fact is difficult for you to confront.
10) That's a question for you to ask yourself. But I have one for you too:
Have you no shame?
I think it's unfair to expect Imane Khelif's defenders to react to these rapid, new developments. Maybe there's a remote island in Japan that they could go fortify against the corrupt sex testers until such a time that a mutually trusted negotiator can gradually talk them down.
Matti Sironen retweeted
First the killing. Then the scavenger hunt for clips to make it feel deserved.
They don't care about law. They want retroactive permission.
Matti Sironen retweeted
You could make a case ( I wouldn’t) for abolishing the women’s category in a competitive sport, opening it to all humans. But there is no case for a separate women’s category if men such as Lia Thomas & Imane Khelif are allowed to gatecrash it. You cannot have it both ways.
Matti Sironen retweeted
Why are there left-wing economists and right-wing economists? Why can't there be economists with no wing? You wouldn’t say that with physics or biology, but you do get that with economics. So, the data don't just always speak for themselves, right?
“We have a problem of selection to begin with. What do we study? What questions do we ask? Should we study a certain outcome in a certain country?
Do we have a policy agenda coming into the study? Social science and economics are intertwined with interests, ideology, and biases.”
Matti Sironen retweeted
Former ACLU President and @TheFIREorg Senior Fellow on the “Weimar fallacy.”
Nadine’s father was a Holocaust survivor.