Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm www.nature.com/articles/d41... ... I have some thoughts...
The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that it will spur a rush to commercialize the approach.
Great new work by @evangiangrande.bsky.social tracking how race scientists exploit preprint servers to legitimize and spread their work
Review of my book, "Understanding The Nature-Debate" in the Journal of Economic Methodology, by Hannah Allen.
Kevin Mitchell
I take pride in my letters of recommendation. I hate being forced to squeeze them into text windows on a web form, responding to banal and repetitive questions. A hill I will die on: Not all human processes are improved by standardizing them.
A Substack post on the Nature Human Genetics article. The piece itself is very short, so it is sort of a summary of a summary.
Regardless of what you think about Graham Platner-- I don't know what I think-- it is becoming clear that the Times is going full-bore Hillary's emails on the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
Shareable link to Nature Human Behavior paper on polygenic scores. Hope it works.
New blog post: Galton's Grandma was right. I locate the the preprint from Jaishankar et al in this history of Galtonian behavior genetics: a remarkable methodological achievement, with devastating-- and mostly unacknowledged-- substantive implications for the field. open.substack.com/pub/ericturk...
