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I was alerted to this article this morning:

Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters

It should delight those amongst us who rant about the "woke". 8^D But it dovetails nicely with the fraught concept of equality in the other thread.

Coincidentally, also on 9/6, the BIAPT announced their early career prize winner Emily McTernan:
https://www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-2021-early-career-prize-winner-dr-emily-mcternan/

"In her forthcoming monograph, Dr McTernan develops her work on social equality further, to advance a pioneering conceptual account – and robust normative defence – of the phenomenon of ‘taking offence’. Therein, McTernan contends, we should understand taking offence, under appropriate conditions, as a civic virtue rather than a vice, as an emotion that embodies the resistance of social inequalities within a community."


On 9/8/21 8:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> From about a cancer rate of 10% (without mutation) to 50% (with) but it depends on the BRCA variant.
> 
> https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/breast_ovarian_cancer/breast_cancer.htm <https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/breast_ovarian_cancer/breast_cancer.htm>
> 
>> On Sep 8, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is the Braca gene that little correlated with breast cancer?
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>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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>> 505 670-9918
>> Santa Fe, NM
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>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 4:57 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
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>>     Yeah, it is hard to get excited about “unusual” variance.   Modern classification algorithms like gradient boosting make it possible to predict phenotypes, and to me that is a lot more interesting (and still possible to deconstruct).____
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>>     *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> *On Behalf Of *Eric Charles
>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, September 8, 2021 3:53 PM
>>     *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com>>
>>     *Subject:* [FRIAM] gen'fur____
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>>     Gen'fur this, gen'fur that... and also the realities of biological complexity.... 
>>     ____


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