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Epigenetics is not fringe science - you inherit the methylation patterns from your parents' genes. Two people with the same genes can (in principle) have very d
by pja 4y ago
Epigenetics is not fringe science - you inherit the methylation patterns from your parents' genes. Two people with the same genes can (in principle) have very different methylation patterns & thus differences in gene expression that result in changes in behaviour.
None of this is controversial.
- rayiner 4y agoThat’s about parent’s environmental exposure affecting gene expression in their children. The notion that this can be passed down over multiple generations, where the parent’s generation wasn’t directly exposed to the environmental conditions, is fringe.
- dragonwriter 4y agoIts not “fringe”, it is demonstrated as a thing which occurs. Some particular multigenerational effects may be controversial, speculative, or even fringe, but that multigenerational epigenetic effects exist is not at all fringe.
- rayiner 4y agoConfidently asserting that there is a generalized “concept of genetic trauma” that explains behavioral phenomena, as the poster did above, is not correct. The science on this is extremely limited: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190326-what-is-epigenetics https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190326-what-is-epigenet.... And it gets invoked by non-experts to support a lot of fringe assertions.