The Sins of the Father
Political correctness is somewhat akin to a plague which imposes a blanket of silence on society and which in turn enables those with an agenda to impose their will on society while screened from scrutiny.
(Dr Ben Carson).
The statement is very apposite at the present time because it reflects so accurately recent events in the academic world which have sought to silence and shut down discussion and publication of the results obtained from recent research into the subject of epigenetics. A case in point in this regard is that of research carried out by Sidhartha Mukherjee at Columbia university. Similar reactions have been felt in the UK where students even attempted to organise a petition to stop further research and prevent publication of further results with which they did not agree.
These examples clearly reflect the politically correct bias held by many both inside and outside the academic world by those who wish to preserve the mythology of “equality” and preserve the fiction that “equal to” means “the same as” when experience clearly shows that this is not the case.
Part of the reason for this dogma still holding sway is due to unfortunate experiments and publications in the past which embraced Lamarckian and Mendelian theories of inheritance and resulted in clumsy or uninformed attempts by proponents from various political hues to change the course of human inheritance without fully understanding underlying genetic processes.
However the fact remains that the underlying processes of genetics and evolution are subject to the influence of environmental and behavioural processes and that genetic coding which is unique to every individual can be permanently and irrevocably altered and modified by events.
(Dr Ben Carson).
The statement is very apposite at the present time because it reflects so accurately recent events in the academic world which have sought to silence and shut down discussion and publication of the results obtained from recent research into the subject of epigenetics. A case in point in this regard is that of research carried out by Sidhartha Mukherjee at Columbia university. Similar reactions have been felt in the UK where students even attempted to organise a petition to stop further research and prevent publication of further results with which they did not agree.
These examples clearly reflect the politically correct bias held by many both inside and outside the academic world by those who wish to preserve the mythology of “equality” and preserve the fiction that “equal to” means “the same as” when experience clearly shows that this is not the case.
Part of the reason for this dogma still holding sway is due to unfortunate experiments and publications in the past which embraced Lamarckian and Mendelian theories of inheritance and resulted in clumsy or uninformed attempts by proponents from various political hues to change the course of human inheritance without fully understanding underlying genetic processes.
However the fact remains that the underlying processes of genetics and evolution are subject to the influence of environmental and behavioural processes and that genetic coding which is unique to every individual can be permanently and irrevocably altered and modified by events.
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This is all my own work and I would appreciate it if you did not copy it. Thank you.
Sins of the Father.pdf
This is all my own work and I would appreciate it if you did not copy it. Thank you.
Sins of the Father.pdf
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