A recent news story featured a variety of science writers repeating the meme "Fish grow 'hands' in genetic experiment." These sensationalized stories attempted to describe a new genetics research study published in the journal Developmental Cell.¹ The primary results of the study actually produced data that refuted the accompanying evolutionary hype.

Fish supposedly evolved into people by gene mutations, but a recent report shows that mutations have disastrous effects.¹ Not only are individual genes essential, but when they are inhibited, entire gene networks are disrupted, resulting in severe growth and development problems in the organism.