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by skosuri 6y ago
Besides the insults, there are a couple of real scientific questions. Despite my better judgement... : 1. 'evolutionary pressure on traits' -> so what? It's important, because we are usually much better powered at detectin
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by skosuri 6y ago
I agree whole heartedly with this comment. Until last year, my family and I lived in the undergrad dorms at UCLA (as a professor in residence). In the end the major thing I’d advise students to do is get involved. It might be research, but
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by skosuri 6y ago
First. I’d say read the blog post I linked to above. To answer your question on the “well-known” differences; they definitely are real and genetic. It’s just that IQ and most measures of intelligence look nothing like those traits. The comm
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by skosuri 6y ago
I wasn't being sarcastic. I was saying that if you are actually sincere, and I was hopeful you were, I said to to take the time to read the blog post (knowing it was long); they go through great lengths to explain to people not in the
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by skosuri 6y ago
Sorry, didn't actually see any scientific criticisms or questions in any of your replies; just your "sincere" request for more information, which I gave you. You just don't seem interested in learning more.
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by skosuri 6y ago
So again, you have no substantive questions/comments on the criticisms brought up in the blog post other than to call it long and rambling. Nothing on how common variants associated with intelligence don't segregate substantially
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by skosuri 6y ago
Agreed and of course. He can and should continue his research as a well paid full professor at MSU, which I assume he will. He gets a lot of attention for doing so. Otherwise he’d just be a random really bad quantitative geneticist you’ve n
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by skosuri 6y ago
Lol; what I thought. Do you just make up things you put in quotes? That’s not what those characters are meant for. The “long, rambling blog post” outlines a number of pieces of evidence that say it’s highly unlikely there are meaningful dif
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by skosuri 6y ago
His genetics ideas are bad science. They are poorly thought out papers and overstate conclusions based on data that don’t properly account for the population and environmental effects. Hsu has been doing this for many many years. Then he go
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by skosuri 6y ago
If you are actually sincere, take the time to read this: http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscienc...
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by skosuri 6y ago
Do you mean the hundreds of faculty at his university and the grad student union that called for his resignation from a position of power over them? Yeah, I think it’s reasonable. He’s still payed quite well and welcome to his crappy resear
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by skosuri 6y ago
Disqualify him from being a professor? He’s still a tenured full professor with a nice salary. He’s just no longer in charge of all research at the university.
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by skosuri 6y ago
Amongst geneticists. If you want to learn more you can read here: http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscienc...
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by skosuri 6y ago
This is definitely the case of the dam finally bursting. For example, a famous geneticist who left said this: https://twitter.com/ctitusbrown/status/1271082397656735746?s... I also have friends on the faculty. Thi
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by skosuri 6y ago
Nope. He has a very fringe view on the state of the science. His conclusions from his work have been widely considered wrong.
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by skosuri 6y ago
No. I’m faculty though and some of my best friends and colleagues are or were faculty there. I also research quantitative genetics. Been hearing the back story for years; many fear him and he threatened retaliation against some of my friend
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by skosuri 6y ago
He’s still a fully tenured professor at MSU; free to research whatever he wants.
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by skosuri 6y ago
Up until today? You have no idea what you are talking about. I have colleagues at the university that have been trying to have him removed for years; several have left in part because of him.
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by skosuri 6y ago
He’s a hack. Most people in quantitative genetics think he’s a hack. He’s still a fully tenured professor making a lot of money & free to choose his research agenda. It’s just that he shouldn’t be head of research and really amazing fac
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by skosuri 6y ago
I am very glad this happened and this decision was very supported by the faculty of MSU. He is still a full professor at MSU making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. He’s just no longer in charge of the research agenda. His own resea
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by skosuri 6y ago
Being an academic researcher (kosurilab.org) and a founder (octant.bio), while I do think there are some similarities (working hard, etc), I think there are some really big differences too. Some of these might be more particular to academic
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by skosuri 6y ago
Hey all; wrote this with Feng Zhang, Jason Kelly, and Jay Shendure. The argument largely is already technology in place that will scale for mass screenings for bringing people back to work. To make it happen, we believe it will require sepa
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The US already has the technology to test millions of people a day(technologyreview.com)
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by skosuri 6y ago
Oh, nvmd. I just saw you wanted a $1/run. Something ONT based perhaps.
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by skosuri 6y ago
We've developed something NGS-based we call SwabSeq. You can find out more here: https://www.notion.so/Octant-SwabSeq-Testing-9eb80e793d7e463... You can get to $1/sample; but need >1000 samples/run at leas
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by skosuri 7y ago
They do. Most universities also rely on other sources to supplement research including donations, endowment spending, ip, and even tuition.
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by skosuri 7y ago
To be fair, and when it comes to health and biology, Twitter >> HN. The comments on most bio-related posts here make me cringe.
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by skosuri 8y ago
Scientific reports is a nature family journal somewhat akin to Plos One (very little importance review). It should set some warning lights on.
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by skosuri 8y ago
To be clear, the link you posted is a discussion on the previous letter sent to a more general audience.
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by skosuri 8y ago
Ooh. I got a HiSeq 2000 for a six pack of beer. Can’t wait to try to hack it!

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