Eriksson says that nearly half of all Europeans have two copies of this variant, and of those people, 15 percent reported a soapy taste. In contrast, 13 percent of Europeans had no copies, and 11.5 percent of this group said cilantro tasted like soap.If someone wants to defend this study, particularly the authors, I will actually go through the study and mock it specifically, but otherwise I don't think it is even worth debunking. Clearly, Nature Journal has no sense of quality control. They will print any study making any absurd claim.
This is a blog dedicated to examining genetic linkage studies of mental disorders. I have been interested in the lack of solid genetic evidence for mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, for 25 years and I have written several letters to psychiatric journals challenging these studies. Often, however, the letters are not published. Therefore, I have created this blog to devote an entire website to challenging the studies that claim to show such links.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Aversion to Cilantro? Please...
Here is a study claiming to find a link between some gene and not liking cilantro. The fact that this is obviously going to be another study that finds a false positive and tries to sell it as a big new finding is inevitable. Here is the tipoff before even looking at the study:
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