Wat is je laatst gelezen boek?

Wat is je laatst gelezen boek?

What I'm learning is the world laughs through its ass every day, then just lies double-time when shit goes down.

Fate always pays attention to what you think, then slams it up your fucken ass.

you're cursed when you realize true things, because then you can't act with the full confidence of dumbness anymore.

It is not just outsiders who cannot be heard, it is dissenting members of the scientific professions
themselves... It is worrying to learn that in countries like Great Britain and the United States, thought to be among the most civilized on Earth, some professional scientists can feel so isolated and ignored that they have to take their case directly to the public via the popular press. Equally, it is depressing to discover that in countries which pride themselves on their intellectual tolerance, it is impossible to voice scientific dissent without attracting this kind of response from those who perceive to be the guardians of orthodoxy[...]

In the first half of the nineteenth century the bark of trees in the Manchester area was progressively darkened by by atmospheric pollution from factory chimneys. This gradual darkening affected the peppered moth, Biston betularia, which is nocturnal but spends the day resting with wings outspread on the trunks of trees. Before pollution the moth was light gray in color with dark gray speckles, giving it a perfect camouflage against predatory birds, since the tree trunks were also light gray. As the trunks became darker and darker, the moth 'evolved' a darker protective coloration until, by 1898, some 99 percent of the moths in the Greater Manchester area had the dark coloration.

This phenomenon has been dubbed industrial melanism by Darwinists and is described (for example by the British Museum of Natural History in 1970) as "The most striking evolutionary change actually witnessed" and as "Demonstrating natural selection". This story, if true, would be interesting evidence in favor of evolution by natural selection. However, the story turns out not to be quite what it seems.

The change of color from light gray to dark gray is perfectly real and was recorded over the years by meticulous collecting. Also, the basic idea of changing color was thoroughly tested by Bernard Kettlewell at Oxford through experiments under controlled conditions with light and dark moths. The question is what does the change represent?
Initially, around 1848, only one or few specimens of the dark variety were collected in the Manchester area. It was assigned position of a subspecific variety and given the varietal name carbonaria. As the tree trunks became darker, the light moths lost their protective camouflage, became conspicuous, and fell easy prey to birds. At the same time, the carbonaria variety became better and better camouflaged and began to flourish.
Simply put, first there were a few dark moths and a lot of light ones. The light ones lost their camouflage and the dark ones gained it. All the light moths were eaten, leaving only the dark ones. Far from being an example of evolution or even natural selection, the peppered moth is an example of a shift in population.

Radiocarbon assay has been found to be flawed and unreliable. In one recent case, South African 'bushman paintings' dated as 1,200 years old by Oxford University's carbon accelerator were found to have been painted at evening classes by a Johannesburg housewife.