32,000 views for my tweet; 2.2 million for the nonsense it critiques. so typical. lies and distortions beating debunking by a factor of roug…

32,000 views for my tweet; 2.2 million for the nonsense it critiques. so typical. lies and distortions beating debunking by a factor of roughly 100. Wanna get a million views? Make stuff up. Take a tiny tiny bit of truth and distort it wildly. Consider the tweet below, 1.4M views. Take the chess thing. The paper that is linked doesn’t actually say that “among elite chess players people with lowest IQ are best.” or anything cl…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-10