{"id":28632,"date":"2015-12-07T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=28632"},"modified":"2015-12-07T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:45:11","slug":"somebody-who-actually-knows-what-hes-talking-about-on-the-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/somebody-who-actually-knows-what-hes-talking-about-on-the-subject.html","title":{"rendered":"Somebody who actually knows what he&#8217;s talking about on the subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28634\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/AulaVolta.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28634\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/AulaVolta.jpg\" alt=\"Aula Volta at the University of Pavia\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lecture hall at the University of Pavia, which (having been founded in 1361) ranks among the oldest universities in Europe.<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<br>Ugo Perego earned his doctorate here in genetics and bi0molecular sciences.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the vast majority of those who confidently hold forth on the issue of Amerindian DNA and the Book of Mormon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/ugop\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Ugo Perego<\/a> actually does scientific research on Amerindian DNA. \u00a0(His twenty-fifth peer-reviewed scientific publication has just appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/metrics\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0144223\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See some of what he\u2019s had to say about DNA and the Book of Mormon, and, for that matter, about the genetic search for descendants of Joseph Smith by women other than Emma, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fairmormon.org\/author\/uperego\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephsmithdna.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/is-decrypting-the-genetic-legacy-of-americas-indigenous-populations-key-to-the-historicity-of-the-book-of-mormon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Unlike the vast majority of those who confidently hold forth on the issue of Amerindian DNA and the Book of Mormon, Dr. Ugo Perego actually does scientific research on Amerindian DNA. \u00a0(His twenty-fifth peer-reviewed scientific publication has just appeared here.) \u00a0 See some of what he\u2019s had to say about DNA and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Somebody who actually knows what he&#039;s talking about on the subject<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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