[lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background
Miles Jackson
cqmv at pdx.edu
Fri Jun 12 08:06:18 PDT 2009
Michael Smith wrote:
> Sorry if this seems rude -- but the above borders on gibberish,
> and may indeed have crossed the border. "Independent"?
> Independent of what? And once again -- who is making these
> straw-man claims, or assumptions, to the extent that they are
> intelligible at all?
>
I imagine it's gibberish if you haven't studied genetics. Genes can
have no "independent" effect on anything, because the expression of any
genes occurs in an environment that also shapes the expression. This is
an almost banal point that anyone learns in their first course on genetics..
Miles
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