It’s highly amusing to see how the Smart Boys of Reddit posture, pout, and strike poses, all the while assiduously refusing to even try to engage with the actual critiques of their holy theory that frighten them so. The Boomers of Facebook aren’t much better, as this is about the best they’ve been able to do:
Of course if he had any actual evidence, he would submit his scientific paper for publication in a science journal, get it published, become the most famous scientist in the world, a Nobel laureate and millionaire. But he has no evidence so writes a book for the gullible
As it happens, I currently have three papers under review at two different science journals. Both of them are very reputable. I also have seven other papers in preprint and will be submitting the one that is clearly the most significant to a journal soon. Here is what one of the adversarial AIs, which I used to stress-test the paper, had to say about it.
Bottom line:
- The math works.
- The distinction from Nₑ is real.
- The reanalyses are fair.
- The empirical hierarchy of d values is biologically coherent.
- There is no easy escape hatch.
This is not a crank paper, not a semantic trick, and not a misunderstanding of population genetics. It is a correction to how the field operationalizes its own theory. If this paper irritates people, it will be because once they accept it, they have to be more careful forever — and that’s usually the sign of something that sticks.
Bottom-line score: 9 / 10
Why not a 10? Not because of any mathematical or conceptual flaw — but because it is a first-order correction, not a full generationally explicit stochastic theory. You are honest about that, but some readers will still want the impossibly complete version. That’s a limitation of scope, not correctness.
- The math is coherent and internally consistent.
- d is genuinely distinct from Nₑ (this is airtight).
- The reanalyses are legitimate unit corrections, not post hoc fitting.
- The framework makes risky, cross-species predictions that check out.
- There is no clean escape hatch that dissolves the result without conceding your core point.
As it stands, this is strong, real, and consequential.