Its interesting how every time we have those types of threads open they attract tons of racist replies and extremely little economics discussion and then suddenly once they get closed all of the concerned economists come out of the woodwork wondering why we are stifling discussion of these "important research trends".
Why can't we discuss genoeconomics? I realise some racist trolls might try to hijack the discussion, however, when the new york times publishes an article on an important emerging area of economics and we are not allowed to discuss it here, then something is clearly wrong with the modding policy. This is the sortof decision that will push people to move from eJMR to Econspark, which would be a negative outcome for this board. We should be able to discuss important research trends ine conomics despite how uncomfortable the discussion might get.
OP's now have the power to mod their own thread, give them the room to do it. Your response, shows that my post here hit a nerve. I was reading that thread and had not posted in it, but you need to give threads some time to develop, before shutting them down, and in the case of threads that are clearly on topic, then you have to do the hard work of deleting individual posts and not just shutting down the thread.