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[ewx]

BBC can't tell the difference between genetics and literature (or possibly genetics and propaganda, but literature professors are supposed to fict...)

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[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

It's not April 1st is it?

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

They do say Prof Aaron says the Welsh have what might be likened to a survival gene near the start - the later references to genes could be interpreted as shorthand for this, rather than literal claims of genetic causation.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I think it's at least heading in the direction of Sokal & Bricmont territory though.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Wales is full of people like this. Bloody loonies.

[gerald_duck]

The problem is, it's really hard to comment on an article like that without contrasting Wales and Scotland in a way that is inevitably offensive to the Welsh.