Thread by @AdamRutherford

‘It is commonly believed that psychic ability... runs in families.’

The genetics of psychics. An n=23 ‘study’ that shows journal publishing is a spooooky scam👻🧬

NB one of the authors is a standard issue race weenies🤡

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Think of the work and person-hours that have been wasted to squeeze out this shart. They had to find the ‘psychics’ - or, to give them their full title, ‘not psychics’ - match them with also ‘not psychics’, sample them, sequence their 🧬, analyse that, write it up, submit it...

The journal editors had to read it, send it out to peer review, receive comments, email the authors, make corrections. And at no point did anyone go ‘hold on a minute! This is a tiny pebble of ploppypoop, that makes us, the journal, science and academia look ridiculous’. 🧬💩

They found a single SNP (G>A) in a non-coding region that was absent in the non psychic psychics and was present in 7 of the non psychics. That’s even more baffling. With a sample of 23 people you should be able to find loads more statistically insignificant irrelevant variation.

And now I’ve wasted your time by getting you to read it.

We’re idiots, babe, it’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves 🎶