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That is a lovely hypothesis, but it has failed to stand up to testing. You go ahead and eat all natural poison ivy salads.
by papsosouid 14y ago
That is a lovely hypothesis, but it has failed to stand up to testing. You go ahead and eat all natural poison ivy salads.
- ericb 14y agoWhat I am stating is limited in scope, and your response is as disingenuous as it is snarky. Your example likely demonstrates selective pressure within species--specifically urushiol in plants as a protective mechanism against herbivores. But you are arguing against the relevance of selective pressure. So you have beat up a straw man in which all things natural are better, but of course, I never argued that. Do you believe in selective pressure? Do you think digesting cow milk conferred no evolutionary advantage? There ARE studies on the prevalence of the genes for digesting dairy milk, and I think they back me up. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/science/11evolve.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/science/11evolve.html?_r=0
- papsosouid 14y ago>But you are arguing against the relevance of selective pressure. No, I am arguing against pretending there is a correlation between "natural" and "good" when there is not. Like I very clearly said.
- ericb 14y agoOn a different note. I'm interested in a link to the study where where they studied my hypothesis and disproved it like you say. I've never seen a serious study attempt to disprove this. So, citation please?