“Scientific America is a peer review journal that some hold up to be the gold standard.”
B.S. I subscribed to Scientific American for over two decades, and kept every edition in a large magazine collection, when it was then a good science magazine - until sometime in the 1990s when the “scientific” level of its front cover articles became no better than the History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” cable TV show. I quit the subscription, and checked new editions at the magazine stand, remaining convinced I was right to cancel the subscription. After three or four years of that I quit checking it out. I would not rank it today as a “bronze” level science journal, much less “gold”. I don’t know who told you it was a “peer reviewed” journal. It isn’t.
My grandmother told me it was peer reviewed AND she was an American Indian. How DARE you doubt her!/s
How nice that the US population is voluntarily providing a database of its DNA, which (naturally) will be accessible to the government.
And Big Brother didn’t even have to ask...
I quit Scientific American way back when they fired Forrest Mimms for his Christian Beliefs.