Everything is genetic, isn't it?

T here is hardly a trait, physical or behavioral, for which there is not at least some familial resemblance, especially among close relative...

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The Law of No Restraint

T here's a new law of science reporting or, perhaps more accurately put, of the science jungle.  The law is to feed any story, no matter...

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Genomic causation....or not

By Ken Weiss and Anne Buchanan T he Big Story in the latest Nature  ("A radical revision of human genetics: Why many ‘deadly’ gene mut...

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Another look at 'complexity'

A fascinating and clear description of one contemporary problem of sciences involved in 'complexity' can be found in an excellent d...

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Darwin the Newtonian. Part IV. What is 'natural selection'?

I f, as I suggested yesterday , genetic drift is a rather unprovable or even metaphysical notion, then what is the epistemological standing ...

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Statistical Reform.....or Safe-harbor Treadmill Science?

W e have recently commented on the flap in statistics circles about the misleading use of significance test results ( p -values) rather than...

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The statistics of Promissory Science. Part II: The problem may be much deeper than acknowledged

Y esterday , I discussed current issues related to statistical studies of things like genetic or other disease risk factors.  Recent discuss...

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The statistics of Promissory Science. Part I: Making non-sense with statistical methods

S tatistics is a form of mathematics, a way devised by humans for representing abstract relationships. Mathematics comprises  axiomatic sys...

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