Charles C Roseman

@evoroseman.bsky.social

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Evolution and genetics of complex traits. Genes, evolution, and society. Masculine pronouns and noun classes in whichever language.

Werner Herzog almost smiling.

An email to the editors of Journal of Controversial Ideas reading:

Journal of Controversial Ideas recently published an article by a pseudonymous author, Shuichi Tezuka, entitled "The Equality Paradox" (Tezuka, S. The Equality Paradox. Controversial Ideas 2026, 6, 1; doi:10.63466/jci06010001). There are at least two issues with it that require prompt editorial attention.

Tezuka (2026) references a symposium held at the 2024 meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists as:

Roseman, C. (2024b, March 22). Symposium: Undermining the production of race science. 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

The symposium was co-organized, and the attribution should read "Jones, JH & Roseman, C" to acknowledge the essential contributions made by my colleague Prof. James Holland Jones (copied here).

Moreover, on page 4 of their paper, Tezuka (2026) misattributes a quote. The offending quote is in the following sentence of Tezuka (2026. p.4):

The symposium’s stated goal was to “form the basis for a comprehensive and in-depth guide that will aid scholars of human evolution in writing effective reviews to make it more difficult for race science to get into the literature and to improve our own scholarship when it comes to issues at the intersection of race and biology” (Roseman, 2024a).

The quote is not from Roseman (2024a), which is the abstract for one of the talks in the symposium. It is from what should be cited as Jones & Roseman (2024, as noted above), which is the description of the symposium.

A picture of an Axolotl named "Steven Plonker" with a glorious flowing mane of gills that in no way resembles the locks tumbling out of Stephen Pinker's head. Plonker is actually an Axuallyolotl, which is a mansplaining amphibian, actually. Photo: Daria Utkitna https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Uraspasibo&action=edit&redlink=1

The entire methods section of a race science paper containing a mere two paragraphs of text and a list.

The title page to the original printing of Frederick Douglass' 1854 commencement address to Western Reserve College (now Case Western Reserve University)

Ice Out rally in CU tomorrow

An academic citation to Guns 'n Roses' song "Sweet Child o' Mine"