evidence: It’s a tricky thing to quantify — the tweets still pull in tens or hundreds of thousands of likes from over a 100 million devoted fans and crypto spambots — but his name trends less, and individual takes don’t break through into the wider discourse as often. The last his "insights" got much traction, Musk was warning of imminent population collapse and urging us to have more babies, even though the experts say that no such crisis is forthcoming. (At the same time, we were learning of secret twins he’d fathered with one of his own top executives.) [...] Grimes’ latest tweet, then, can be interpreted as an acceleration of their mutual trajectory. Rather than make the coded references to Christian conservatism that Musk has preferred so far, she’s echoed some full-blown junk science that first arose in opposition to Darwin’s theories of evolution. As the push to teach this nonsense in public schools continues to this day, parroting the idea to a large audience, even jokingly, is kind of wack. And if this is, as I suspect, a trollish game of chicken in which both parties have to keep upping the ante with a dumber explanation of the world we live in, Musk has his work cut out for him. Maybe it’ll be Flat Earth next — he’s always a few years late to the hottest trends.