[decimon]

Ping

[I cannot think of a name]

Let’s see, sex or eternal life as “Animals that reproduce asexually by somatic cloning”?

I don’t know, who really wants to live forever!

[NativeSon]

the species that reproduce asexually have considerably better health.

Well, I always knew that women would be the death of me...

[Upstate NY Guy]

Animals that reproduce asexually ...exceptionally good health.

Yeah, but who wants to have sex with themselves?

[frithguild]

This means that they will be particularly vulnerable to climate change

Ugh. Just ugh.

[Tax Government]

This means that they will be particularly vulnerable to climate change, and the subsequent new types of changes in the environment.

The most important phrase and non-event in modern pseudo-science was just uttered: "Climate change."

Now, starfish have been around forever, practically. They have survived plenty of terrestrial climate change. And in reflecting on the consequences of their genetic non-diversity upon survivability in the face of climate change, we would NOT conclude that they have been shown to be "particularly vulnerable." We know that, short of raising the temperature of the oceans worldwide to levels higher than they have ever been since multi-cellular life emerged, starfish will always be able to find a latitude and depth in which to live.

Conclusion: Just as one little brown excrescence can ruin a whole punchbowl, one little bow in the direction of the climate-change orthodoxy can ruin a whole scientific article.