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The anti-democratic attitude of the liberal elite is absurd from a theoretical viewpoint because a democratic judgment represents the will of the majority...
The goal of public health is ostensibly primary prevention: this means a focus on anticipating, (rather than treating), disease, disorder, and injury.
The situationist idea that personality is an illusion is an arresting one, but it is false.
To our knowledge, we have yet to see a similar example applied specifically to race.
To go from noticing that genetic differences were making a difference to knowing which genetic differences were making a difference, geneticists had to move from the classical twin methods to the modern “molecular” methods.
We should start at the beginning, which is to say, conception. That magical moment when sperm meets egg holds an important insight.
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself.
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
This was the vision of tropical deforestation held in the popular imagination for many years, but the reality is more complex – and more hopeful.
“Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, very gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Gossip can actually be thought of not as a character flaw, but as a highly evolved social skill.
Non-additive effects don’t breed true with the same degree of fidelity—in fact these effects bust up the clean transmission of traits from parents to children (to use a sports analogy, it’s a bit like a cornerback in football deflecting the quarterback’s perfect spiral aimed at the receiver).
Practically no one these days will fight you on the idea that genes and environments interact (GxE), and it is in these interactions, perhaps, that we can discover if parenting truly does impact children.