Can I do both? Saying epigenetics is bunk is a step too far but it has clearly been latched onto by those who want to dismiss the 'determinism' of genetics. It started with Deleuzian vitalists about 15 years ago and looks like it has nowade it to the pseudo-commies. 1/2
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Where is the Lamarckian wish-fulfillment occurring? At the level of doing the (40y of) research, or concluding (as an observer) that the phenomena are most likely important? Or appropriating/dismissing/etc them for political brand-building and memetic arms-race purposes?
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Whatever the text under discussion here, there's no link in my TL, so I'm forced to base response on the varieties of epigenetics bullshit I've been exposed to previously. ...
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... At least reverse transcriptase edits DNA. Epigenetics is just Lysenko's ghost.
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