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Category Archives: Genetics
NYT: Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds
Carl Zimmer writes in the New York Times April 15, 2026: Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of … Continue reading
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Genetics and Public Health: Toward an Efficient Division of Labor
The question of how genetics should figure in public health resource allocation has been muddied by two competing distortions. Genomic enthusiasts oversell the clinical actionability of common-disease genetic markers and underspecify what changing risk estimates actually changes about clinical advice. … Continue reading
The Genetic Component Of The Tacit
Stephen Turner’s critique of tacit knowledge is primarily epistemological and sociological. He is concerned with the impossibility of collective transmission, with the ideological functions of tacit knowledge claims, and with the way appeals to shared background naturalize what are contested … Continue reading
Author Jon Entine Of The Genetic Literacy Project
Jon published these books: * Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It, 2000 * Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing, 2005 * Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health, … Continue reading
Interview With Jon Entine Of The Genetic Literacy Project
00:00 Author Jon Entine 01:00 Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It 07:00 Jon rejects Trumpism 09:00 Epoche thinking 20:00 How the West Lost COVID 27:00 Heterodox while elite 30:00 Abraham’s Children: Race, … Continue reading
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Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People
Here are some highlights from this 2007 book by Jon Entine: * Although rare in blacks and Asians, cystic fibrosis is a common lethal genetic disease in those of northern European ancestry. Whites are more likely to get multiple sclerosis … Continue reading
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David Reich’s New Book
Greg Cochran writes about David Reich’s new book: The people Reich dumps on are saying perfectly reasonable things. He criticizes Henry Harpending for saying that he’d never seen an African with a hobby. Of course, Henry had actually spent time … Continue reading
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YNET: Can ‘Jewishness’ be proven with a simple saliva test?
One of the things that Adolf Hitler admired about Jews was their commitment to blood purity. From YNET: A group of experts on genetics and Halacha (Jewish religious law), who are studying the so-called “Jewish gene,” are claiming that the … Continue reading
Will the Alt-Right Peddle a New Kind of Racist Genetics?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * If Ms. Zhang needs an organ transplant we will see how quickly she believes in race. * Humans and chimpanzees share 99% of the same genes. And I share 99.99% of the same genes with … Continue reading
Genetic citizenship: DNA testing and the Israeli Law of Return
ESSAY: The Israeli State recently announced that it may begin to use genetic tests to determine whether potential immigrants are Jewish or not. This development would demand a rethinking of Israeli law on the issue of the definition of Jewishness. … Continue reading