Short thread on misunderstandings in behavioral genetics. 🧵
Every time you read about a study claiming to link gene X to complex behavior Y, the study is hype. Why? Because they invariably use statistical skullduggery to select X from many hundred genes which co-vary with Y. Something people don't understand is that *we already know* that ALL behavior has a genetic basis. All behavior is a product of the brain, and the brain is a biological structure that comes about from the interaction of hundreds of genes with each other and with the environment.

Everything should be rebuilt. Mussolini started rebuilding the Roman forum, but of course it was never completed.

THE NEW ILIAD. Written by a modern man.
The new Iliad begins with Helen and Paris' old, familiar elopement to Troy. New twists, however, soon become apparent. Her husband Menelaus will not wage war on the Trojans to recover his honor and his wife. Not at all. Rather, he is *browbeaten* to it by his sassy mother Aerope. "Get your ass off the couch and bring her back!"
"Yes mammy, very well", but how to go about it?-- Unaccustomed to the idea of talking to unrelated males(GAY!), the king of Sparta cannot rally the other kings of Greece.