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[RigorMontis]

Does Cheddar Man show there is such a thing as bad publicity?



ES, you’ve seen him somewhere before. This is Cheddar Man, the oldest known “modern” Briton, and that his 10,000-year-old DNA recently revealed that he was dark-skinned. You may also recall that the research was done for a TV documentary, announced via a press release and reported by many news outlets, including us.

Releasing scientific results in this way is notoriously risky, and unsurprisingly there is now some backpedalling going on: Cheddar Man may indeed have been dark-skinned, but we don’t know for sure (see “Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true”).

The whole episode smacks of a publicity stunt to hype up the show. There is some truth in that, but dismissing it outright does a disservice to the scientists.

According to the state of knowledge at the time, the genetic analysis did suggest that Cheddar Man’s skin was dark. But science progresses, and since the analysis was done last year, many more genes affecting skin colour have been discovered. Understandably, the new science did not make it into the documentary.

To add insult to injury, the story has now been seized upon by alt-right activists on social media. Many denounced the original conclusion as propaganda, with the “liberal media” and their cronies in academia twisting the truth to justify multiculturalism. This is blatant and hysterical nonsense, but it is the kind of fake news that can be halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Scientists are understandably hungry for the funding and publicity that a TV documentary can bring, but they need to be more savvy about what they are getting themselves into. TV companies want people to watch their shows; science news outlets cannot resist a juicy story; trolls will be trolls. Whenever science is done by press release, it is science that usually comes off worst.
https://www.newscientist.com/article...bad-publicity/


Che imbroglioni giordi e company

Ehilà orologiaio, ma per caso eri in qualche centro a farti disintossicare da qualcosa?

[Don quijote]

I sinistroidi hanno esaurito la loro quota di cazzate.

Vox sembrerà istrionico, ma attendibile. Capisco che per le zecche è difficile digerire lo sputtanamento della merda globalista, ma facciano mente locale e respiri profondi.

[RigorMontis]

I sinistroidi hanno esaurito la loro quota di cazzate.

Vox sembrerà istrionico, ma attendibile. Capisco che per le zecche è difficile digerire lo sputtanamento della merda globalista, ma facciano mente locale e respiri profondi.

Eh, ma vedi, Dario è molto più attendibile di vox......

[occidentale]

...Repubblica si avvale di collaboratori esterni... magari la fonte proveniva da un futuro giornalista di voxnews

O magari semplicemente Repubblica e' diventato un giornale mediocre e allineato, disposto alle peggiori giravolte pur di sostenere una certa linea.

[RigorMontis]

O magari semplicemente Repubblica e' diventato un giornale mediocre e allineato, disposto alle peggiori giravolte pur di sostenere una certa linea.

voxnews è molto più attendibile di Repubblica, non scherziamo.

[Triangolo nero]

Does Cheddar Man show there is such a thing as bad publicity?



ES, you’ve seen him somewhere before. This is Cheddar Man, the oldest known “modern” Briton, and that his 10,000-year-old DNA recently revealed that he was dark-skinned. You may also recall that the research was done for a TV documentary, announced via a press release and reported by many news outlets, including us.

Releasing scientific results in this way is notoriously risky, and unsurprisingly there is now some backpedalling going on: Cheddar Man may indeed have been dark-skinned, but we don’t know for sure (see “Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true”).

The whole episode smacks of a publicity stunt to hype up the show. There is some truth in that, but dismissing it outright does a disservice to the scientists.

According to the state of knowledge at the time, the genetic analysis did suggest that Cheddar Man’s skin was dark. But science progresses, and since the analysis was done last year, many more genes affecting skin colour have been discovered. Understandably, the new science did not make it into the documentary.

To add insult to injury, the story has now been seized upon by alt-right activists on social media. Many denounced the original conclusion as propaganda, with the “liberal media” and their cronies in academia twisting the truth to justify multiculturalism. This is blatant and hysterical nonsense, but it is the kind of fake news that can be halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Scientists are understandably hungry for the funding and publicity that a TV documentary can bring, but they need to be more savvy about what they are getting themselves into. TV companies want people to watch their shows; science news outlets cannot resist a juicy story; trolls will be trolls. Whenever science is done by press release, it is science that usually comes off worst.
https://www.newscientist.com/article...bad-publicity/


Che imbroglioni giordi e company

Quindi la notizia riportata da Vox che ha scatenato la bufalite di Giordi e ottusangolo Sandcrikko (per quest'ultimo è comprensibile) in realtà non è una bufala.... corretto???

[Urologaio]

Ehilà orologiaio, ma per caso eri in qualche centro a farti disintossicare da qualcosa?

dal formaggio ^_^

[Giordi]

Giordi era questa la notizia che vi ha innescato la bufalite??? No dai...

Era questa...

https://voxnews.info/2018/02/23/luom...lo-confermano/


"Oggi, comunque, gli scienziati sono voluti intervenire, per confermare che l’Uomo di Cheddar non aveva la pelle scura"

E se hai qualche ulteriore dubbio
Cheddar Man FAQ | Natural History Museum

Da cui traggo

How do you know his skin colour?

We were able to extract enough information from Cheddar Man’s DNA to run it through a forensic tool that predicts differences in the level of skin pigmentation in modern world populations3. The results indicated that Cheddar Man’s skin pigmentation was most likely in one of the two most highly-pigmented of five categories ('dark' or 'dark to black'), and definitely not in the lightest categories.

... e poi

The genetics can also give hints as to what these early people may have looked like. The genetic variants found in the Mesolithic, including that of Cheddar Man and at least one of the Neolithic humans, show that they likely had darker skin than we associate with northern Europeans today.

They indicate that these early populations of people were far more variable in their skin pigmentation than has been thought.

'In higher latitudes where sunlight is lower, paler skin allows people to absorb UV light from the Sun more efficiently, which our bodies use to synthesise vitamin D,' explains Tom.

'Certainly natural selection is acting on genetic variants linked to lighter skin pigmentation in prehistoric populations, but it looks like the development of paler skin in northern Europe generally is not straightforward.

'Key genetic variants linked to lighter skin pigmentation are introduced by later migrations of new populations. Diets rich in vitamin D may have weakened selective pressures on light pigmentation variants.'

Neolithic Britain: where did the first farmers come from? | Natural History Museum

[Urologaio]

Quindi la notizia riportata da Vox che ha scatenato la bufalite di Giordi e ottusangolo Sandcrikko (per quest'ultimo è comprensibile) in realtà non è una bufala.... corretto???

a quanto sembra, magari si riferivano a un'altra notizia, aspettiamo di sentire la loro versione

[Triangolo nero]

dal formaggio ^_^

Giordi.... me la spieghi la bufala dell'uomo formaggio così mi faccio anch'io quattro risate su quei bufalari di Vox.