Newest releases from Nucleus and Herasight
Things are moving fast in the embryo selection sector. There was never really any technological barriers here the last 10+ years, just the usual social taboos and various incompetent people…
How does one correct for measurement error in sibling models?
There was a lot of discussion regarding the corrections for measurement error used in the recent Herasight intelligence polygenic score paper. I covered it for Aporia. I want to dive…
Herasight publishes their validation of IQ PGS; Nucleus open sources their models
There's two exciting news today in embryo selection. The technology is finally moving forward at an appreciable rate. Maybe we are not dysgenics doomed after all. First off, Herasight --…
There is no autism epidemic, and autism is not caused by paracetamol anyway
In the latest genius move, the Trump administration has claimed that the commonly used painkiller paracetamol (Tylenol, Panadol, acetaminophen, various other names) causes autism. As we have seen however, there…
Proper embryo selection just landed
Today is an exciting day. First, the HHS announced a more open data policy (in the direction of my suggestions), and second and more importantly, a new company just went…
What is dangerous for pregnant women?
Remember to participate in the 2025 readers survey! There's a very large literature on the outcomes of children to mothers who did X. The problem with most of these is…
Norwegian cognitive inequality and its social consequences
There's a new kickass study based on Norwegian register data: Bratsberg, B., Fjell, A. M. M., Rogeberg, O. J., Skirbekk, V. F., & Walhovd, K. B. (2024). Differences in early…
What do genomic principal components mean?
There's a new study out making the rounds, but first I want to divert and ask: Who invented admixture regression? Here I mean the analysis where admixture (ancestry) estimates of…
The Bird paper, and hereditarian predictions
I keep getting asked about this, so I figure a short note is in order. Some months ago, Commie Kevin (Twitter) AKA. Kevin Bird published an anti-hereditarian study: Bird, K.…
p > .05 thus no effect thus familial confounding fallacies
Reading over some sibling control studies, BIG TOUGH GUY mentioned this quite wrong study: Meier, S. M., Mors, O., & Parner, E. (2017). Familial confounding of the association between maternal…