What this man is saying is absolute bollocks, and why someone so utterly ignorant should be gifted this platform is a mystery to me. Yours sincerely, Geneticists.
https://twitter.com/green_footballs/status/1490140017619914756
Monoamine oxidase is a neurotransmitter. In the 90s a variant in its promoter was found in a family of Dutch iterant criminals.
Since then, it became a variant that became the poster boy of the bullshit genetic determinism fallacy, associated in all sort of behaviours, including risk taking in city traders and gang membership.
This of course was nonsense. It acquired a name - the warrior gene - after a tiny study in Maori, which itself was also rubbish. All these studies were hampered by tiny samples and poor methodology. But the genie was out of the bottle.
Then, Bradley Waldroup had his sentence for murder switched to life on the grounds of reduced responsibility because he had this variant.
The punchline? 1 in 3 white men have the same version.
What this fuckball is saying is ignorant, non-scientific and racist. But there he is, unchallenged saying it with the confidence of an expert, which he overtly is not.
I know I sound like I’m always pimping my own work, but there’s a whole chapter on this in my book A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. Funny how Rogan doesn’t seem to ever have people who actually know their song before they start singing.
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