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That depends on what *you* were expecting, we can’t objectively measure “expected”

Less than 2% of people were not their father’s sons. They didn’t publish this result though so consider this anecdotal.

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Correct!

That being said, does that mean that anthropology is kind of at odds with any social reform movement? 

No. It's like saying that forks are at odds with soups. They are different tools for different goals. I think this is where your confusion stems from. Anthropology is a science – it's not a moral framework. The way you think in order to study and understand a culture has nothing to do with whether you want to preserve it or change it.

Any social change might be met with a counter-opinion from anthropologists, to "preserve" the practice.

This statement sounds fundamentally flawed to me. Anthropology and conservationism aren't the same thing.

Whether a practice is “fine” or not is a qualitative judgement, and whether “we should leave them alone”, or better, whether “we should intervene” is activism. Neither are science. Those matters are beyond the scope of anthropology.

A similar way of thinking about it is how science, by definition, can only talk about statements that can be falsified with an experiment. I can scientifically prove that the statement “object fall upwards” is false. I cannot scientifically prove that “God loves us” or that “everything happens because invisible elves move things” because neither can be proved wrong. It doesn’t mean those statements are false – they are scientifically meaningless.

The same way, judgement about whether a practice is “good” or “bad” and whether one should intervene are irrelevant for the sake of anthropological study.

That would also mean we would have to wait for victims of such practice FROM that group to speak out on their own against the practice, talk about how they've been personally harmed/traumatized

No, obviously the words and opinions of the people who have undergone the practice are absolutely relevant as they come from within the cultural context at study.

I feel like an anthropologist would be hesitant about supporting the victim's statements as to not "culturally-project" on the rest of the demographic.

This is false. But what is true is that writing an anthropological study from the perspective of supporting (or condemning) statements is tendentious and really bad science – you can easily see how this approach could, in general, be used as a tool of propaganda (or imperialism and oppression). These judgements should be left to the reader, or written about in a separate context outside the study.

EDIT: added quotes and last paragraph.

As other people have said, “primitive” implies a teleology where cultures are “meant” to “advance” towards a certain state. “Developed”, in my opinion, is a more neutral, factual term – I would think of it as “infrastructurally developed” or “technologically developed”. It’s hard to argue against the fact that “developed” country use more complex technology.

Part of the science of anthropology is to practice cultural relativism in order to understand worldviews other than one’s own. For example, what are considered “universal human rights” are nothing universal – they have mostly been framed from a modern, western and Christian set of values. Some practices are really hard for us to understand, because they make no sense in the modern world, and we live in a globalized society where it’s very hard to step away from that lens. Different cultures have different practices; evaluating them needs to be done from within their cultural context. For the sake of anthropological study, projecting judgements doesn't align with scientific analysis; for example, ranking cultures as “more advanced” or “less advanced” is part of a progressivist mindset which, again, is not a universal worldview. Same for emotional statements expressing outrage and condemnation.

EDIT: slightly improved and clarified the flow of the discourse

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The gene is called MSTN

gene (actually a protein)

Genes contain the codes to synthesize proteins, myostatin is a protein and we have a gene for it (MSTN).

What I mention in the main post. An allergic reaction to skin mites. For me it was fixed with the protocol I described in the same post.

Hi, thanks for your kind reply! I put effort writing this because I know how much it meant to me to find that forum post – and how long it took. If this helps even one person it will have been well worth it.

did you ever try topical anti-inflammatories during the process?

During a prolonged stay with my partner, the longer we had been together continuously at the time, my condition kept getting worse and I went to the ER. I was given oral and topical steroids, which fixed the flare, but as soon as I stopped them it exploded back worse than before, even though my partner had gone back home. I had already noticed that it would always get better after showering and washing the bedsheets, which again it did. Doctors had shrugged this off as "probably it's cause it relaxes you".

After that time, we tried the mites protocol and the problem hasn't recurred since.

Right now if I feel my eyes getting itchy I wipe them, and I don't use shampoo often but if I start feeling itchy I do use some.

maybe it’s not just anti-inflammation but antimicrobial or even anti-mite effects.

A relative of mine has psoriasis, very different condition from eczema but still immune / inflammation related, and he claims that for him it was neem oil that did in a couple weeks what conventional medicine never did. I believe neem oil also has miticidal properties and is also used to treat blepharitis. True that when you have a hammer everything starts to look like a nail – but still, some food for thoughts.

Demodex lives in hair follicles and eczema patches are usually in hairless areas like the elbow crease. I would wager it wouldn't do much – but wouldn't harm either.

I remember I got massive rashes all around my hairline, temples and neck, and there were differences based on what parts of the body we had covered in different parts of the year. In winter I got it on my face only, in summer also on my chest, legs, etc. I thought I had scarlet fever.

Nizoral doesn't have selenium sulphide. From what I remember selenium sulphide is alleged to be a sort of irritant for mites, and to get them out of hair follicles so they can be washed away. It is lethal to mites but only in very high concentrations. Nizoral has ketoconazole. I can't vouch for it.