[allmendream]

Only a postmodernist thinks definitions are subjective.

“It depends upon what your definition of ‘is’ is.” Bill Clinton impeached former President and Postmodernist.

“It depends upon what your definition of ‘mutation’ is.” grey_whiskers FR poster and Postmodernist.

Give me a break.

[grey_whiskers]

No, not sarcasm. But people who are NOT trained in biology inevitably tend to think that mutation ='three-headed-monster' which implies "harmful".

And when your definitions of the very words you are discussing with other are different, and neither of the parties discussing it realizes it, that makes things more complicated.

E.g. the female authority quoted by Hank seems to need some remedial education on some issues related to biochem, as another poster on this thread has pointed out.

Ignorance of a field is USUALLY a detriment, with the rare exception being when the points you are making about a subject are from an entirely different field of endeavor from the experts: e.g. the urban legend about the man complaining the radioastronomy dish was interfering with his analog TV reception. "That's impossible! The dish is a receiver, not a transmitter!" ...but the dish was in between the TV station's transmitter and the guy's house.

Cheers!