NYT article on inheriting Trauma; Shows it to be false Narrative

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/health/mind-epigenetics-genes.html

"The excitement since then has only intensified, generating more studies —

of the descendants of Holocaust survivors,

of victims of poverty —

that hint at the heritability of trauma. If these studies hold up, they would suggest that we inherit some trace of our parents’ and even grandparents’ experience, particularly their suffering, which in turn modifies our own day-to-day health — and perhaps our children’s, too.

But behind the scenes, the work has touched off a bitter dispute among researchers that could stunt the [enterprise] in its infancy.

Critics contend that the biology implied by such studies simply is not plausible.

Epigenetics researchers counter that their evidence is "solid", EVEN IF THE BIOLOGY IS NOT WORKED OUT.

“These are, in fact, EXTRAORDINARY claims, and they are being advanced on LESS THAN ordinary evidence,”

said Kevin Mitchell, an associate professor of genetics and neurology at Trinity College, Dublin.

“This is a malady in modern science: the more extraordinary and sensational and apparently revolutionary the claim, the LOWER THE BAR for the EVIDENCE on which it is based, when the opposite should be true.”