BTW If someone at a VC/Ibank firm would like to work with me on a more rigorous analysis about the "mocked and misunderstood" hypothesis, drop me a note and we will publish the results (however it turns out!).
Hypotheses about ME were initially tested for the following pairs of study groups: (a) Caucasian and non-Caucasian females, (b) Caucasian and non-Caucasian males, (c) Caucasian males and females, and (d) non-Caucasian males and females.
Never mind the hypothesis, give me the data, and there aren't any," said Professor Steve Jones, a geneticist at University College London.
"That's at the core of the issue we've all been grappling with," Robin Canup, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute and a longtime proponent of the single-impact hypothesis, told me over the weekend.
A scientist who has worked on the fetal-origins hypothesis told me that Barker "is very aggressive in talking about it, and I think he has made himself enemies that have been unhelpful.
[Hooks Considerations] consist in ascribing an hypothesis to me which is not mine; in asserting an hypothesis which as to ye principal parts of it is not against me; in granting the greatest part of my discourse if explicated by that hypothesis; & in denying some things the truth of which would have appeared by an experimental examination.
Increasing evidence that post-transcriptional miRNA processing is subject to regulatory activity [ 31- 34] and the apparent differences in the expression levels of the me-ncRNAs and their encoded miRNAs found here, further allows for a hypothesis in which me-ncRNAs constitute a miRNA storage form, possibly in addition to other functional properties of the intact me-ncRNA transcript.
"My own Barker hypothesis," Osmond told me, "is that without Jan, David would have been sunk".
"The first thing doctors always think about is whether there's a unifying hypothesis," he told me.
If they can prove their hypothesis, Langmuir told me, it will establish a connection "between big changes in climate at Earth's surface, ridge volcanism, the carbon cycle, and the entire topographic fabric of the sea floor".
