Month: September 2016

Is it true that intelligence is inherited from the mother?

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The first rule regarding new studies of the inheritance of intelligence is to be very suspicious of all studies of the inheritance of intelligence. The history of these studies is not a happy one. Stephen Gould wrote a whole book (The Mismeasure of Man) detailing all the ways in which biological research has been co-opted Read More …

Will gene therapies ultimately become more prevalent than traditional drugs?

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It is hard to imagine how this could happen. Let’s assume that all the technical obstacles that now plague gene therapy[1] are resolved. In other words, that we learn how to deliver genes efficiently to the appropriate tissues without any side effects. Gene therapy would still be appropriate for only a tiny fraction of human Read More …