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Bio-Sensor is Bad Science, Part 1
Posted on January 24, 2012 | 30 CommentsDog culture is lazy and unoriginal, and profoundly stagnant. The desire for easy answers, simplistic how-tos and formulas for success is rampant. Just do this one simple thing! Breeders eschew... -
Unexpected Leonberger Diversity
Posted on January 16, 2012 | 48 CommentsLeonberger history suggests that they should not be a genetically diverse breed. Although they were formed as a hodgepodge of large continental dogs a little over a century ago, two... -
Those Inbred Lab Mice
Posted on January 1, 2012 | 80 CommentsThe Pure Blood Brigade™ (licensed for use from Jess Ruffner) will sometimes invoke laboratory mice as the go-to example of a perfectly healthy inbred population. Here’s a quote from NSDTR-apologist... -
Lessons from Island Wolves
Posted on December 25, 2011 | 69 CommentsSweeping comparisons between wild animals and domesticated pets are dangerous given the unique and often mutually exclusive conditions in which those two groups often find themselves. Wild animals must hunt... -
Like a Bobtail Without an Anus
Posted on November 25, 2011 | 83 CommentsIn a previous post I spoke about new research making Dr. Bruce Cattanach’s old understanding of the Bobtail Gene obsolete and reopening the debate about the ethics of this gene... -
Academic Fraud in Toller Research
Posted on October 15, 2011 | 12 CommentsThe 2011 study A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds is a shoddy piece of work and a disgrace to the scientific method. The world-wide population of Cavalier King Charles... -
COI: How Many Generations are Enough?
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 20 CommentsIn her published paper, A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds, Claire Wade would have you believe that looking at 4.1 generations of Toller data is enough to get... -
Pedigree Collapse
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 6 CommentsIt’s common to visualize one’s ancestry as a pyramid with the current individual at the apex descending back across time and generations in an expanding wedge. Every generation has twice the number of... -
For Whom the Dog Tolls
Posted on October 1, 2011 | 9 CommentsNUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS. Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as... -
I Smell A Rat
Posted on May 8, 2011 | 21 CommentsPatrick “I didn’t actually read the study I linked to…again” Burns recently posted a vapid comparison of dog population genetics to that of island rats. His summary of the study...
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