The gene illusion
by Jay Joseph
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by Jay Joseph
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I'd advice reading a book like "The Gene Illusion" by Jay Joseph as a similar pop-science book taking the opposite position.
on “I write a parenting advice column (or how I became famous in my neighborhood)” ↗…science figures out exactly why and how some people with a given genetic predisposition for an illness will develop that illness, whilst others do not. As discussed in this article about the 2003 book The Gene Illusion [1], the 50% rate of identitical twin concordance for schizophrenia is widely cited as evidence that it is a genetically deterministic condition. But whether or not the figure is really 50% or something…
on “Schizophrenia, Hubris and Science” ↗