You may have heard about the new paper on how people tend to pick friends who carry a similar gene variant. If true, it would be very cool. But in Nature, Amy Maxmen quotes scientists who don’t like the study at all:

Kudos to Maxmen to dig deep, rather than reprint a press release. But I found it odd that these critics were relegated to the end of the article, introduced with the following:

I find this an annoyingly vague phrase. If a hundred experts read a paper and pass judgment, what does it mean for “not everyone” to be convinced? It sounds like it could mean 99 out of 100 love it, or 0 out of 100, or anywhere