> How should I file this claim.

I wager you know more about epigenetics than that dilettante; I remember a conversation we had a few years back where you reeled me in from some hyperbolic arc. Epigenetics is a convenient way to explain things that don't make sense otherwise, like your acquaintance's claim that African bees can be made docile by massaging the larvae with tofu lotion. File under "uses fancy words to obscure lack of knowledge of how things work."

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