Tim Worstall

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This is interesting. Confirmation of something which has been seen in other species but not (at least as far as I know) in humans.

The first evidence that women can influence the sex of their child by what they eat before they become pregnant is published today.
The study, which links higher energy intake around conception to […]

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The comment on this seems appropriate:

Why do scientists get paid for researching into the blindingly obvious? How much did this research cost the taxpayer?

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“Our result show that one of the main assumptions of current models and theories is, in fact, quite wrong."
It doesn’t matter what the subject is (in this case it’s how starlings flock, but it could be about meiosis, hormesis or haplotypes) that’s the one phrase that every scientist wants to be able to stand up […]

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For some at least.

The Pentagon is spending billions of dollars on new forms of space warfare to counter the growing risk of missile attack from rogue states and the "satellite killer" capabilities of China.
Congress has allocated funds to develop futuristic weapons and intelligence systems that operate beyond the Earth’s atmosphere as America looks past Iraq […]

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This is a very odd statement for a scientist, a geneticist, to make:

Despite his frantic backtracking, James Watson’s statement that Africans are less intelligent than Europeans follows a long and dubious tradition of geneticists claiming that supposed racial differences have a genetic basis.
If racial differences do not have a genetic basis then it’s very difficult […]

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