Your instinct is spot on. These stress inheritance studies were widely panned by experts (see e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-s

Your instinct is spot on. These stress inheritance studies were widely panned by experts (see e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-sceptical-about-the-idea-of-genetically-inherited-trauma-epigenetics https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-...).