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That historical example did a lot to persuade me. Do you have any others similar to it?
I used to share your position, but moved away from it. The main reason I did is studies such as the ones mentioned in this article:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579234030532617704.
How do you explain such results?
The article is behind a login wall. It would help linking directly to studies instead of a badly accessible article about them.
To guess at the point, we find that obesity within the US has a strong genetic component. On the other hand we find that obesity strongly changes over the time span of decades. The fact that something seems to be genetic within one population seems no good evidence that there are no societal factors involved.
I didn't know there was a login wall. Try this one: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan.html#.VEgMHPSTZD0?
The article wasn't mentioning genetics, it was about nMRIs.
The problem with nMRI scans is that if you believe in physicalism, you'd expect every aspect of someone to show up on a sufficiently advanced brain scan. Also, I wonder how many brain regions they tried before finding one that displayed the correct pattern.