Re:Scientists Identify Gene Pattern That Makes Some Animals ...
by pdpi on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:00AM
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> It sounds like: Hitler was a vegetarian. Don't be Hitler.
To me it read more like the Nazi comparison was meant as a wake up call, and the bulk of the argument is in the second paragraph: "In this study[0], there is no human research, and the definition of monogamy is limited to a single mating season. It's also looking at gene expression, which means that a gene that everyone has is either turned on or off. For reference, genes are expressed differently in various parts of your body, and is a fairly good test for various types of cancer."
On a separate note, this wasn't a "Hitler was a vegetarian" thing. Pseudoscientific rationalisation for why some humans are morally superior to others is precisely that sort of context where Godwin's Law doesn't apply.
To me it read more like the Nazi comparison was meant as a wake up call, and the bulk of the argument is in the second paragraph: "In this study[0], there is no human research, and the definition of monogamy is limited to a single mating season. It's also looking at gene expression, which means that a gene that everyone has is either turned on or off. For reference, genes are expressed differently in various parts of your body, and is a fairly good test for various types of cancer."
On a separate note, this wasn't a "Hitler was a vegetarian" thing. Pseudoscientific rationalisation for why some humans are morally superior to others is precisely that sort of context where Godwin's Law doesn't apply.