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Why not genetics?

• scoofy 4y ago
  Any explanation to the American obesity epidemic needs to explain why it exploded in the 1980s and has accelerated since then. Genetics would exactly fail this test.
  • sdflhasjd 4y ago
    Genetics and plastic (or whatever else)?
    • scoofy 4y ago
      This is certainly plausible, but seems like a rather unreasonably complex potential solution.
• astrange 4y ago
  There are hardly any situations where genetic differences between humans are the entire causal chain for any outcome. When someone tells you otherwise, it’s a good sign they don’t understand statistics. (Scientists commonly don’t understand statistics, since it’d be harder to get papers published if they did.) Strictly speaking it’s never true, because the environment could always contain a cure for your genetic disorder and your environment just happens to not have contained one so far in your life.