My favorite Hogben quote is highly relevant today in the context of problematic behavioral genetic and DNA-based research on behavior and psychiatric conditions: “There is a danger of concealing assumptions which have no factual basis behind an impressive façade of flawless algebra.”

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This is not my field, but I agree that the desire to fix polarization rather than the actual problems and to treat all disagreements with "both sides" statements rather than facts is allowing the destruction of American science, in addition to democracy. Read the paper!

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Wow. I really appreciate this review! (So detailed and well-written)

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Love this. Also I love cell culture for being just the right combination of hands and brain for me to get into a nice deeply meditative state. Passaging cells is guaranteed to calm me down after a stressful day.

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Unironically, I’ll plug for The Onion’s “A Very Fatal Murder” pod from a few years ago.

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