Mutational Load is as Dangerous a Long-Term Threat as Climate Change. Why Can’t We Discuss it?

Carl J. Yeoman, Nicholas Chia, Suleyman Yildirim, Margret E. Berg Miller, Angela Kent, Rebecca Stumpf, Steven R. Leigh, Karen E. Nelson, Bryan A. White 1,6 and Brenda A. Wilson, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

There is no “winning” internet arguments. The closest thing to a win condition I’ve ever seen is that the other guy simply has nothing to say, and disappears. I confess, I have wasted far too much time honing this craft, but I’ve discovered some very curious expressions of human psychology in the course of that development.