{"id":1531,"date":"2008-04-23T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2008-04-24T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T06:22:10","slug":"our-lives-are-unrepeatable-experiments-lacking-a-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/04\/our-lives-are-unrepeatable-experiments-lacking-a-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Our lives are unrepeatable experiments lacking a control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a prosaic quotation from the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v452\/n7184\/full\/452151d.html\">Nature correspondence section<\/a> that highlights why genetics has been leading us into nowhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our lives are unrepeatble experiments lacking a control. Myriad external factors interact with genetic and epigenetic factors and with chance to determine whether we are well or ill, smart or dull, successes or failures.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 02.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a prosaic quotation from the recent Nature correspondence section that highlights why genetics has been leading us into nowhere. Our lives are unrepeatble experiments lacking a control. Myriad external factors interact with genetic and epigenetic factors and with chance to determine whether we are well or ill, smart or dull, successes or failures. Yea, yea. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/04\/our-lives-are-unrepeatable-experiments-lacking-a-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our lives are unrepeatable experiments lacking a control<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,9],"tags":[2946],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-joke-fun","category-computer-software","tag-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}