by Helen Wallace, GeneWatch UK The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing that the NHS must be transformed to make people’s personal genetic information …
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Science and Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
By Jonathan Latham, PhD (Originally posted July 31st and lost after a DDOS (electronic) attack). Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences. …
Continue reading‘Phantom Heritability’ Indicates Poor Predictive Value of Gene Tests
Helen Wallace, GeneWatch UK (photo credit: jurvetson) Last week, a paper on “phantom heritability” was published by a research group led by Eric Lander, one of the leading contributors to understanding the implications of the …
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