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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 5 Dec 2013

    Why do sci journalists think it's profound that genes are switched on/off? Do they think that all cells produce all proteins all the time?

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      1. Rachael French‏ @DrRachaelF 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker Doesn't change the fact that evolution is acting at the level of the gene - regulation is genetically encoded, too. 2/2

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      1. Someone's Mom‏ @NiceAtheistGirl 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker Maybe because the switches are so tiny.

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      1. simon frantz‏ @simon_frantz 6 Dec 2013
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        As geneticist/journo, I ask what happens in 3D cell?.RT @sapinker:Why do scijournalists think it's profound that genes are switched on/off?

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      1. Christine W‏ @imaginaryvigil 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker it's our job as scientists to educate the public better.

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      1. Christine W‏ @imaginaryvigil 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker being fair, if you've never had a biology education beyond high school, it's not something you'd ever consider.

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      2. 沈马修‏ @shenmaxiu 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker @sirdansmith It’s related to this phenomenon:http://youtu.be/53AP0ilQSMM 

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      3. Dan Smith‏ @sirdansmith 5 Dec 2013
        Replying to @shenmaxiu

        @mjberryman hah! That was not what I was expecting. :)

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      1. NorahMitchellFlowers‏ @The_Florist 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker because reading a press release doesn't give much if an understanding.

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      1. Puzzle Privateer‏ @PuzzlePrivateer 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker yes they probably do

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      1. Stephan Guyenet, PhD‏ @whsource 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker Odd bc arguments don't actually undermine gene-centric view. Expression controlled by gene-env interactions and genes r heritable

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      1. Dean‏ @Herne_TheHunter 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker Tell them about epigenetics and watch their heads explode.

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      1. Richard Tomsett‏ @richardtomsett 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker because of the old Watson version of the central dogma of molecular biology? @WiringTheBrain

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      1. Rachael French‏ @DrRachaelF 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker This is sort of what's been flummoxing me, too. I mean...yes, gene expression is controlled. Of course it is. 1/2

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      1. Lee‏ @ZLeeily 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker Supposedly my high school had excellent STEM education (according to US news....) but I didn't learn these things till college.

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      1. ryan onstott‏ @fmhueffer 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker Dobbs was pretty heavily invested in the "feminist" twitter-storm 2 years ago v Dawkins -- obvs got a small bug up the ass

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      1. Lee‏ @ZLeeily 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker I think it comes from not understanding the pathway between DNA and phenotype. Don't think gen public knows how the dots connect.

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      1. (((Wendell Bialy or Belyy)))‏ @WndlB 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker maybe because it shifts the paradigm of what we "know?"

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      1. Marcos‏ @marcos_don 5 Dec 2013
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        @sapinker Perhaps because the word «switch» implies some kind of intentionality, for them.

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