My big plan to Keep The Flynn Effect Happening: -Sperm banks for everyone to keep mutation load levels down -Massive embryo selection for IQ -Stop dropping toxines that kill brain cells in fetuses
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Man, I sure am glad this can't be traced back to repeated bending over backwards by the media dancing around the wishes of Big Ethanol (including spinning a recent study of "moderate" alcohol consumption during pregnancy that gave uninterpretable results as "it's safe")https://twitter.com/SSA_Addiction/status/1068425656038551552 …
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https://twitter.com/dingding_peng/status/1068489529714245632 … yeah some of the numbers here are quite high. for example https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecoj.12144 … cites 17% so like, half that
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17%? Looks like they're taking any baby born with any characteristic that is even a little bit in direction of FAS and counting them in that 17%. Not very rigorous or convincing. Scare mongering
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see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecoj.12144 … for evidence of cognitive effects with little noticeable phenotypic differences
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Ok, this is far better than I thought. I should have known better than to infer anything from the press release
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this is a separate study! it's just that looking at the classical face signs can mislead/undersestimate
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if anyone is dumb enough to drink during pregnancy then not much is lost when they pop out broken kids. this is nature working as intended. WONTFIX
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nah I think people that do wrong deserve not to get the push too, particularly when another person is doing the deed. nature working as intended is bad.
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their body their choice. let them smoke and drink and refuse vaccines.
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controversial opinion: some choices are good, but some choices are bad. find a way to reduce bad choices
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find a way to remove all the safety and warning labels. it is not our job to coerce people into decisions we think are “better” for others. if anything it is rude and presumptuous.
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give people the access to tools and information to make their own decisions. then get the hell out of the way and don’t be surprised when they spend 99% of their life drinking and smoking and not wearing seatbelts or helmets and watching tv and eating mcdonald’s
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I guess we can agree in the middle on not spreading disinformation and stuff!
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nope; falsehoods are a thing people need to be careful of on earth, not all information is created equal! if fools believe homeopathy, christianity, flat earth, or that drawing to an inside straight is a good idea that they want to practice: let them!
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"at least three different areas of learning or behaviour" Anyone want to give odds whether this would survive a within-family comparison or controlling for IQ PGS...?
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have given this to other people already but I think this is a reason to expect at least some effect https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecoj.12144 …
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tbf, the medical advice on alcohol during pregnancy has been zero units for some years now
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yah that's why I say media and not official health advice, it's the current year
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"Recent estimates suggest that three quarters of women drink some alcohol during pregnancy, with one third at binge levels." Wow, that's a lot of binge drinking in pregnancy right there.
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The definition of 'binge drinking' can be surprisingly...inclusive
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