On a serious note, does anyone else get some serious Dunning-Kruger vibes from this? Like serious scientists and experts in the field are very specificly saying that these are not dire wolves. The only people saying they are dire wolves are the owners of the private company that made them. A company with an invested economic interest in people believing them. I'm not an expert geneticist, but I hope you'll excuse me if I believe the scienctists over the people saying, "you can tell it's a direwolf by the way that it is!" so that they can make money.
If the main way rich people get their news is through network TV, doesn't that give protesters an advantage? If the movement is larger than rich people expect it to be, they'll dismiss it until it's too big to ignore.
Someone posted another article that has a interview with an independent scientist, and I think it's rather illuminating.
Meachen is impressed with Colossal’s announcement but remains skeptical.
"I don't think they are actually dire wolves. I don't think what we have is dire wolves," Meachen told ABC News. "What we had is something new -- we have a mostly gray wolf that looks like a dire wolf."
Shapiro disagrees with that thinking.
"I think that the best definition of a species is if it looks like that species, if it is acting like that species, if it's filling the role of that species then you've done it," she said.
So their only criteria for "Is it a dire wolf," is yupp, looks like one and behaves like one, even though every real scientist is skeptical. This is, never the less, still impressive technology, but bringing back extinct animals seems more like a marketing gimic than a description of what they're actually doing.
Flawless logic. Never mind that no one alive has ever observed a dire wolf.
Didn't they want this? Haven't they been trying to install a fascist dictatorship for literal decades? Did they forget that fascism is bad and nobody likes it?
Humans act kinda however their environment teaches them to act. Societies exist along a spectrum from encouraging people to be individuals to encouraging people to feel like part of a community. Most western cultures trend towards individualism. When we see ourselves as individuals, we're more likely to see those around us as competitors.
That's my guess at least. Judging by the way you're typing in English I'll assume you're in the individualistic part of the world like me, and yeah, kinda sucks for most people. Personally, I think the fact that most people are upset with the nature of the society we live in is proof we're supposed to be more community oriented.
That's really how we should think about a lot of things. People don't fall for stuff because they're dumb. They fall for stuff because they're vulnerable.
"Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something"
Jake the Dog, Adventure Time