{"id":74495,"date":"2012-10-15T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18741"},"modified":"2012-10-15T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T21:38:52","slug":"dont-trust-an-archaeologist-about-genetics-dont-trust-a-geneticist-about-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/15\/dont-trust-an-archaeologist-about-genetics-dont-trust-a-geneticist-about-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t trust an archaeologist about genetics, don\u2019t trust a geneticist about archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who to trust? That is the question when you don&#8217;t know very much (all of us). Trust is precious, and to some extent sacred. <strong>That&#8217;s why I can flip out when I realize after the fact that someone more informed than me in field X sampled biased their argument in a way they knew was shady to support a proposition they were forwarding.<\/strong> What&#8217;s the point of that? Who cares if you win at a particular bull-session? You&#8217;re burning through cultural capital. And not that most of my interlocutors care, but I&#8217;m likely to never trust them again on anything.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, this came to mind when I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/10\/at-5-neanderthal-you-are-an-outlier\/263475\/\">a James Fallows&#8217; post at <em>The Atlantic<\/em>. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the appropriate section, with my underlines:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/10\/Screenshot-from-2012-10-15-135746.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18742\" title=\"Screenshot from 2012-10-15 13:57:46\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/10\/Screenshot-from-2012-10-15-135746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"834\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PNAS link is wrong. The correspondent is actually linking to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1040618212001085\">Quaternary International<\/a>. And they do point out that there are possible problems with draft quality sequences due to contamination. But I didn&#8217;t find the paper too persuasive. There are two issues. First, the Denisova genome is very good quality. So you can be more &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/EEbbof8Plg0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who to trust? That is the question when you don&#8217;t know very much (all of us). Trust is precious, and to some extent sacred. That&#8217;s why I can flip out when I realize after the fact that someone more informed than me in field X sampled biased&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,204,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-evolutionary-genetics","category-human-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74495"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74573,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74495\/revisions\/74573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}