More and more I have noticed articles on Wired magazine sounding less and less informed. This latest piece about how models are no longer needed in science is ridiculous and uninformed. The fact that Mr. Anderson is the editor in chief is scary. I may have an incorrect understanding of science but from what I gather, a model does not allow you to tie together a correlation with causation…. nothing does. Furthermore, from my experience with genetics, I was always always always taught that DNA works WITH the environment rather than in isolation from it.
The most enjoyable reading from this article were the comments.
Wait. I just re-read it… he said “petabytes allow us to say ‘correlation is enough’.” I sure hope the writer of this article is no longer the editor-in-chief of Wired…
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