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Friday Fluff – December 24th, 2010

Discover a fascinating post from the past exploring anti-science strategies in genetics and how they echo crank evolution.

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1. First, a post from the past: Lions, and tigers, and snow leopards! Oh, my!. 2. Weird search query of the week: "Lions, and tigers, and snow leopards! Oh, my!". 3.Comment of the week, in response to Heritability and genes as causes:

I knew some people thought I had over-reacted to the initial item/press release. And I might have just let it die until Pollan tweeted it so far and wide. Then I knew it required larger damage control. I’m delighted to have you human genetics folks on board now. But those of us who have been dealing with these folks on plant science issues for a long time know what they are up to. Some of them are even trying to block funding for research training in developing countries because the bill contains the word “biotech”. It doesn’t matter if you try to explain to them that scientists in ...

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