23. I count Selfish reasons to have more kids as one of them, though I think Bryan Caplan overstates the “parenting doesn’t matter” case.
He’s very right that genetics matters though, and I find it kinda shocking how many people deny or don’t know this.
— Divia Eden (@diviacaroline) December 15, 2019
People deny all things genetic because of how often genetic ideas have been misused. Their position is understandable but does more harm than good. The truth matters, even if it’s dangerous.
For the same reason, many/most scientists will claim with a straight face that if distributions have overlap, then they are magically the same. Why believe something so bizarre? See above. Because of the misuse of genetics and race “science” and the pushback against that misappropriation of science, that justified rebellion infected the entire discourse and led to scientists declaring distributional overlap means that two populations etc. are really identical. It’s absolutely insane but you can see how it developed and persisted.