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No this isn't. He should have spent 1.5 more months thinking about his experimental design. He doesn't even try to make the distinction between causality and coincidence. We could achieve the same conclusions by talking about socio-economic changes rather than genotype-to-phenotype.

For a guy who was has is name in the big GWAS published in Science, he obviously didn't understand what his co-authors did or wrote. Sorry for the rant, I can't stand people who are getting a free-ride on a paper, and he just proved that is one of them.




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