nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is clear that academic publishers care about their money, not about security of other people
After the 88 tweet long thread on our recent BBS paper - "Cultural evolution of genetic heritability" - I thought it was only fair to tweet each of the comments we received. Our response has taken us longer than expected, but we're almost done! 1/
On a recent gloomy weekend I read the classic perspective of @mendel_random on the gloomy prospect of personalized medicine.
A very important read, in particular in the era of polygenic risk scores.
The key messages (fig below) summarize it well.
https://t.co/ZOp6ZpOnWz
Happy to announce that my study, co-authored with @PKoellinger, is accepted in the Journal of Health Economics. Advance online pre-proof version:
https://t.co/2fIrd3QyRQ
ok, gotta read this next:
The Dominance of Economics over Eugenics
H.J. Muller, 1933
"eugenics under capitalism involves several serious contradictions ... radical changes in our economic order are prerequisite to a genuine, functioning eugenics."
https://t.co/JED7gB6Piw
Hermann J. Muller’s letter to "Comrade Stalin", 1936
"True eugenics can only be a product of socialism, and will, like advances in physical technique, be one of the means used by the latter in the betterment of life."
I'm excited to have this new paper out on the relationship between the problem of locality introduced by Lewontin in the 1970s and the problem of portability current problematizing the generalizability of recent GWAS findings. 1/2
https://t.co/RAMxFFpMWX