DissidentSci

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by DissidentSci 5y ago
Is anyone trying to implement that gas bag idea? Not one I'd heard of before
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by DissidentSci 6y ago
Spot on
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by DissidentSci 6y ago
Got any evidence/examples for that, where the cost of building for 100 vs 1000 years has been worked out?
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by DissidentSci 6y ago
Isn't hackernews meant to be politics free? Would be great if there was at least one place we didn't need to read these tiresome comments from people who can't comprehend that others have different value systems.
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
That's why we would all be sleeping easier in our bed if the Chinese would just accept externla help from the USA/WHO/anyone. So far as I understand, there are currently no external observers. There are no reliable sources. D
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
Read about genetics and genomics. Get good at programming and study maths. Aim to do a PhD at the Broad or the Sanger.
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
Is that 2-3 fiction books per week? Where do you find time to read 2-3 books per week? Do you speed read?
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
To be fair, the set of conditions and circumstances cropped up in Singapore as well. One could be forgiven for thinking that if the circusmtances could be engineered then, they could be engineered now.
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
Intelligence and fertility are known as complex traits. The fact they are complex doesn't mean they are not acted on by genetics: they are just highly polygenic. Almost all attempts to measure the heritability of intelligence have reac
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
If you accept the heritability for age at first birth has not been measured wrong, then the hypothesis put forth by this paper will come about. Perhaps I over stated the case by saying inevitable. It's quite feasible that the consequen
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
If anyone thinks the paper is wrong, they are stating that the measures of those values are wrong. The rest is inevitable.
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
Please explain why estimates of the twin & SNP heritability of age at first birth are wrong
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
I seem to have cited more relevant academic works on this thread than you, so maybe quit trying to outrank me and debate facts?
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
Because that never happened before in human history: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Who+We+Are+and+How+We+Got+Here&re...
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
What you should understand is: most geneticists wouldn't have had the balls to write this even though it's obvious to them. Someone did have the courage to write it. Now wrap your head around what they wrote.
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
The three law's of behavioural genetics: “First Law: All human behavioural traits are heritable. Second Law: The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes. Third Law: A substantial portion of the
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by DissidentSci 7y ago
This study ( https://www.pnas.org/content/114/5/E727 ) measured the speed at which selection against cognitive ability is occuring in the Icelandic population (they measured this genotypically rather than pheno