A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder - eviltoast
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      1 year ago

      The term sounds dumb off the tongue and, you guessed it, has no actual philosophical or historical weight aside from a callback to the name for Roman emperors.

      Sadly, those who are interested in regression don’t access a lot of critical thinking skills, so they’ll glom onto this surface level reference and see it as deep and meaningful.