🧵 Cladistics is a joke
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:02:10 UTC No. 16581289
It's a dumpster fire of various competing hypotheses which cladists can't even agree on because some extinct species of nematode doesn't fit in their retarded theories. Can we just go back to Linnaean taxonomy?
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:08:49 UTC No. 16581861
>>16581289
>various competing hypotheses which cladists can't even agree on
That's not a problem, that's a sign of a healthy developing field of inquiry that hasn't become slave to dogma.
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:22:28 UTC No. 16581874
>is this up and to the left or up and to the right, or just straight up?
>"wow, what a shit theory, it doesn't even work in this case"
>well it does work, the disagreement is about-
>"shut up! it doesn't work! I don't care!"
Very cool.