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You can’t take it with you: straight talk about epigenetics and intergenerational trauma

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The true story of a powerful molecular process and how pseudoscience co-opted it

Every piece of IKEA furniture comes with a printed instruction manual of diagrams, its thickness and page count varying according to the complexity of the item’s construction. Imagine instead that each item required you to lug home another universal IKEA instruction manual. The manual would be a few meters tall, a ponderous compendium of every diagram-filled instruction booklet for every item in the warehouse. Diagrams or processes that apply to hundreds of distinct products could be cross-referenced and only appear once, but the document would still run to thousands of pages. You would sit…

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