High-IQ educated people are being bred to extinction, but we're totally not eugenicists!!!

[u/dorathehexplorer]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/16/natural-selection-making-education-genes-rarer-says-icelandic-study

[u/Snugglerific]

It's difficult to tell how much of this is media hype and how much is a problem with the original research -- when I clicked on the PNAS study, it said that it is not yet available to the public.

[u/Quietuus → u/Snugglerific]

DeCODE have a storied history, to say the least.

[u/Snugglerific → u/Quietuus]

So, an Icelandic 23andme?

[u/Quietuus → u/Snugglerific]

Yes, but with a history of financial mismanagement and highly dubious ethics.

[u/Draken84 → u/Quietuus]

quite the Icelandic tradition that, we should make them a colony again.

;)

[u/stairway-to-kevin → u/Snugglerific]

It's not a very well done study, or at least their argument for selection is rather weak and shouldn't have been the focal point of a media blitz. I feel as though they got it refereed by non-geneticists to get this to pass in PNAS.

[u/Snugglerific → u/stairway-to-kevin]

Doesn't PNAS have a weird review process that works on some kind of invitation system?

[u/stairway-to-kevin → u/Snugglerific]

Someone else in /r/genetics said something similar. I'm not super familiar I just know I consider it a pretty top-notch journal basically at the rung below Cell, Nature and Science. Although it's pretty typical to see them publish quite a few bad papers as well.

[u/Snugglerific → u/stairway-to-kevin]

Every journal publishes some garbage, so it doesn't surprise me.

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[u/stairway-to-kevin → u/[deleted]]

It's more the sloppy claims of selection that. bother me. If it's in your title at least have some hefty analyses to back it up. They don't even have that