Advanced ape skull find changes human origin ideas (Vigte: This illustrates my problem with the modern methodology and dissemination of "science")

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[–]Vigte[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Hey, I'm all for us not being "descended" from apes - I just monitor the developments in anthro so I can debate/debunk properly.

That and sheer human curiosity.

Bruce Fenton's "Out of Australia" or "Into Africa" theory (though promoting evolution) is a really REALLY intriguing rabbit hole.

If you want to go REALLY out there, look up the "knuckle walking regression" "pseudo science" - the concept being that: how did these gorillas develop knuckles/wrist bones/hands to walk, if they weren't purely bipedal at some point and regressed to quadrupedal/bipedal dualism.

[–]Ian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can see why you'd need to put that cheesy "vigte: blablabla" in the post title to save time since you can't spend your precious time in the convent field as per your other reply to me.

In my book you're not only [edited for unfair characteristics], you're now also a hippocrate.

I'd wish you'd stop using your post titles as a platform to push your post comments to the front page.

[–]Vigte[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

you're now also a hippocrate.

Hmmm

As I also told you before, you're free to ignore my posts if you don't like my style. This is the third time you've come into threads to complain about my titles, rather than discuss the topic at hand.

Did you ever stop to consider that perhaps as per your (original) advice, I tried to take more time adding more substance to my posts, rather than rely solely on the editorialized titling?

No, of course you didn't. You see the extra-work put into recent posts as me being a "hippocrate" (it's hypocrite). You simply want to derail my threads and sling mud because you don't like my opinion and/or writing style.

At the same time I realized you were (partly) correct and I could put more effort into my posts (by, as per my time-preferences - posting when I have the time to post things fully), I also realized I don't need to rationalize my titles to you - nor do I need to have any kind of set-in-stone rules for how I do it.

If u/Magnora7 takes issue with it, then I'll stop. Otherwise I'll have to request you stop this. If you can't handle that, I'll just block you. How's that?

Edit:

push your post comments to the front page.

If that's why I'm doing it, I must not be very good at it. You must be mis-seeing the front page if you're seeing my name up there lol - I haven't been up there in a while.

[–]Ian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Regarding your edit

Your posts have shown up on the default landing page on the mobile app a lot more than 3 times for me, I'm not stalking your posts - they're right in my face. And I'll agree, that's not the proper frontpage.

It's a shame really, because you posts are usually interesting and I'd be upvoting the content if there wasn't a constant mix in the presentation of content and comment... Thus boosting your posts towards the realq frontpage.