Unwashed Genes: October 2021

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

New YouTube Channel with Jay Joseph

Psychologist, author and twin study skeptic Jay Joseph and I are collaborating on a YouTube channel called “Genetic Illusions.” Our first video challenges claims of a genetic mechanism for schizophrenia.

"So far, we haven’t made much progress on the molecular genetics of IQ... Almost invariably, when independent scientists tried to replicate the findings in larger samples, the story fell apart. The genes were not, in fact, related to intelligence: the original studies had been flukes... I feel confident in predicting that, within the next ten years, GWASs will have turned up a large number of intelligence-related genetic variants."

Dr. Stuart J. Ritchie from his 2015 book, "Intelligence: All That Matters," perhaps missing the forest through the trees...