Some of the many articles about it:
The notion that wolves fight amongst each other and the strongest becomes the “alpha” and the weakest is the “omega” and all that, is a misconception that has been debunked ages ago, and even the author of the study who called them “alphas” in the first place is pleading with his old publisher to stop printing the dang book already so this misconception can finally die out.
Wolf packs are more or less just families. One “breeding pair” and their pups, which often stay with their parents way into adulthood.
Considering the original study only documented Wolves in captivity I explain it like this: Alpha, Beta, Sigma, whatever, is just the type of prison bitch you’d be, so congrats.
These days, the only people still using this debunked wolf talk are douchebros, chuds, & incels.
There’s no shortage of well meaning dog owners who don’t know any better.
Ironically its that they don’t have “alphas” in the wild because they just separate and leave each other alone…
For humans in school, prisons, and even just work environments we’re a lot more like captive wolves than wild
This terminology arose from research done on captive wolf packs in the mid-20th century—but captive packs are nothing like wild ones, Mech says. When keeping wolves in captivity, humans typically throw together adult animals with no shared kinship. In these cases, a dominance hierarchy arises, Mech adds, but it’s the animal equivalent of what might happen in a human prison, not the way wolves behave when they are left to their own devices.
That being said, any person describing themselves as an alpha is usually a big piece of shit.
Just like the vaccines cause autism study, this won’t ever die out. People only ever remember the original.
And just like marijuana leads to heroin.
People only ever remember the original.
And only partially so. Conveniently, they forget the part where, IIRC, guy was just trying to promote his own vaccine
Ironic. It wasn’t his own vaccine. It was two vaccines that he held stock in.
All of you are wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield?wprov=sfti1
He had a bad study linking autism to certain vaccines and wanted to sell test kits.
You’re the most wrong lol.
He put out the study stating a link between the MMR vaccine and bowel disorders. Further stated that autism was caused by bowel disorders.
He advocated people to take the seperate vaccines not not the single MMR vaccine. At the time of the study he was developing his own vaccine and had a stake in another, meaning his study had a strong monetary motive.
He would become and anti-vax hero even though he wanted people to take more vaccines, not none.
