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A person with a masters degree in social work assures us that the genetic evidence collected to date is bunk. >severe stress doesn’t just affect one generation
by Torgo 11y ago
A person with a masters degree in social work assures us that the genetic evidence collected to date is bunk.
>severe stress doesn’t just affect one generation: it is passed down, both socially — affecting parenting — and physiologically, by actually changing how children’s genes are read, which can alter both brain and body, a phenomenon known as epigenetics. Research on children of Holocaust survivors, for example, shows changes in reading instructions for genes related to stress.
Citing debunked garbage study, appealing to science like magic when it confirms biases. Article immediately discarded.
- canjobear 11y agoFwiw, the claim that the genetic evidence is bunk comes from "Joseph Gone, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan", not a social worker.
- protomyth 11y agoI would prefer an actual geneticist and I cannot help but think of type of food intolerance that recently appeared on HN to show me this might be bunk.
- coldtea 11y ago>A woman with a masters degree in social work assures us that the genetic evidence collected to date is bunk. Perhaps you missed the whole: "In fact, there’s no evidence that Native Americans are more biologically susceptible to substance use disorders than any other group, says Joseph Gone, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. American Indians don’t metabolize or react to alcohol differently than whites do, and they don’t have higher prevalence of any known risk genes." thing. >Article immediately discarded. Bias immediately detected.
- tsotha 11y ago"Associate professor of psychology"? Exactly what qualifies him to make that kind of statement?
- mslate 11y agoWhy does it matter that she's a woman? That's not such a great way to initiate a criticism of another person's intellectual pedigree.
- Torgo 11y agoYou are right that it was not relevant, and I modified my comment to "person" to avoid the insinuation.
- clarkm 11y agoI wish people would stop making blanket claims about epigenetics like that, but somehow I doubt it will ever happen -- the explanation is just too convenient. I thought this was a pretty good response to the referenced study: http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-sceptical-about-the-idea-of-genetically-inherited-trauma-epigenetics http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-s...
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