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Woah, there. I noticed you took out a large chunk of content from our page on the Khazar hypothesis. That's generally not approved without some discussion beforehand. If you're upset with the state of the article, I completely understand. Sadly, none of us here at RationalWiki are geneticists. So when an anonymous user came in and started aggressively pushing the Elhaik study, we didn't really know what to do. As far as we knew, the Elhaik study was sound. And it's not like genetics is as simple to write about as, say, homeopathy. We were still reluctant to add the Elhaik study to the article because it contradicted decades of prior research, and none of us was qualified to explain why. Unfortunately, the aforementioned anonymous user continued to aggressively push the study. So we compromised and mentioned it on the article page, and it ended up looking something like what you saw today. It was only later that we realized that the Elhaik study has its fair share of critics, and in fact, I may go so far as to say that it is unpopular in the scientific community; i.e, the consensus is against it.

Unfortunately, nobody here at RationalWiki has dared alter the page to reflect that. We simply lack familiarity with the topic.

I remember when I first started the page, I was blissfully unaware of Eran Elhaik and his controversial study. All I knew was that the majority of genetics studies on the matter disproved the hypothesis, and that a few 20th century figures supported it regardless (although some did so before it could even be conclusively tested). It was much easier to write about then. All I had to do was talk about who first came up with it, mention some famous proponents, and then state (with citations) that it has been disproven. But I'm afraid it's no longer that simple. So, if you are familiar with genetics, and can understand the study, we would be glad to have you help us with this article. After all, this is a wiki. A collaborative effort. So new editors are always welcome! -- "Shut up, Brx." 21:39, 13 February 2014 (UTC)