Do you believe it effects most of it or just individual instances, the example you’re pointing at there isn’t load bearing and there are other people who have written similar things but with more nuance on cultural evolution such as cecilia hayes with cognitive gadgets?
Like I’m not sure how much to throw out based on that?
I’d argue quite a lot, though independent evidence could cause me to update me here, and a key reason for that is there is a plausible argument that a lot of the evidence for cultural learning/cultural practices written in the 1940s-1960s were fundamentally laundered to hide evidence of secret practices.
More generally, I was worried that such an obviously false claim implied a lot more hidden to me wrong claims that I couldn’t test, so after spot-checking I didn’t want to invest more time into an expensive search process.
Do you believe it effects most of it or just individual instances, the example you’re pointing at there isn’t load bearing and there are other people who have written similar things but with more nuance on cultural evolution such as cecilia hayes with cognitive gadgets?
Like I’m not sure how much to throw out based on that?
I’d argue quite a lot, though independent evidence could cause me to update me here, and a key reason for that is there is a plausible argument that a lot of the evidence for cultural learning/cultural practices written in the 1940s-1960s were fundamentally laundered to hide evidence of secret practices.
More generally, I was worried that such an obviously false claim implied a lot more hidden to me wrong claims that I couldn’t test, so after spot-checking I didn’t want to invest more time into an expensive search process.