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SMART TALK
by Dr. Amelia Raitt Payne, MD
GENETIC MUTATION: As the staff physician at the Center for English as a First Language, I may get even more bothered by this redundancy than the language therapists.
Surely, anyone with more thinking power than a crustacean can see that genetic mutation is redundant, right? It's as silly as saying oral mouth disease. A student at Wesson High, here in Underbelly, Texas, showed me a science book illustration that labeled a core as the central core, so genetic mutation isn't the only scientific redundancy out there. I've even heard experimental laboratory.
Maybe some don't realize that a mutation is genetic by definition: Mutations occur due to genetic irregularities, which happen much more often than most people realize.