Quote:Furthermore, what do you propose we do about these supposed influences that we can't detect, and even if we could, how do we isolate our experiments from them? And if we could do that, should we? If you're right, and epigenetics is a thing that can be influenced by dark matter, then any experiment that would provide a realistic model of epigenetic behavior in the real world would include dark matter, as that's how the natural world has been developing for the entirety of biological history. The moment you isolate that variable, if it's as common as you claim, you remove a level of accuracy from the experimental result.
There's like five layers of reasons why it's pointless to wonder about dark matter in our experiments right now, but in the end you've kinda got two choices anyway: either you work with what you can control and detect right now and get some kind of data to work with, or you sit paralyzed and cowed by all the variables that might maybe be out there, and get nothing done.
Tricky and a quite confusing, yes. I don't claim to have answers on how to detect and control for these potential variables, nor do I assume there will be any answers to that in the very immediate future. Perhaps someday...
I do not agree, however that it's pointless to wonder.
