Thread by @nntaleb

THREAD
1) We are facing a complete and *sudden* rewriting of history using DNA, like paternity tests, disturbs linguists, historians, (recall the Mary Beard affair), archeologists, and Arabists.

theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

2) @PZalloua (Reich collab) showed Leb Shiites were of Phoenician ancestry, caused a shock, but now slowing building a Canaanite identity.

I found from his databse that there is ~3% Arab genes in Lebanon & West. Syria.

Arabist Historians s.a. Salibi are largely fabricators.

3) The other interesting "hard science" discovery is that a) Modern Greeks are the same as ancient Greeks, b) Greeks are largely Anatolian, c) Canaanites are largely Anatolian.

Minority rule chapter in #skininthegame : languages travel, genes not so much.

4) As an example of how fabrications work: a Low-IQ Arabist below, @ImaraWaTijara is responding by inventing origins FOR ME and the Greek-Orthodox of the Koura Valley using bogus oral history, when DNA shows no Hawran stock in Koura & in MY OWN DNA (J2b).

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5) We have known since Ruffié and Taleb (1965) [my father's hobby was scientific genealogy via blood markers] that Koura valley was heavily Macedonian/Western Cypriot & we can see it through DNA.

Historians are convinved they can contest paternity tests with tons of verbal BS

6) Mr @ImaraWaTijara, let me say it in one sentence"

One single DNA test offsets 12 hours of b***ting.

Gabish?