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Comment author: William_Quixote 13 October 2014 02:26:46PM 8 points [-]

This thread seems to be someone of questionable (nothing mentioned or demonstrated) expertise asserting without evidence that the experts don't know what they are doing. No attention is paid at all to the costs of the proposed action or why the experts think it won't work. Without any evidence the prior for this being crackpot territory is very high. Downvoted.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 January 2015 07:31:49PM 1 point [-]

I assumed familiarity with Gregory Cochran:

Gregory M. Cochran (born 1953) is a physicist and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, known for hypotheses in evolutionary medicine and genetic anthropology.

I will add a link in my description.