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Title: Scientists Find Gene for Sociability - was this really published? Post by: leatherebel on June 11, 2008, 10:06:15 PM Found this in a "fiction" book with supposedly a big element of truth.
Does anyone know if this was really published in Business Online or the NY Times? From Business Online: Scientists Find Gene for Sociability Is the tendency for sociability inherited? Scientists at the Morecomb Laboratories, at Columbia University, believe that it is. They report they have found the gene that regulates it, and they have applied for a patent on that gene... Op-Ed Commentary from the New York Times: A "Sociability Gene"? When Will the Nonsense Stop? Columbia University researchers now claim to have found a sociability gene. What's next? The shyness gene? The reclusive gene? The monastic gene? The get-off-my-back gene? In truth, the researchers are taking advantage, of the public's lack of knowledge of how genes actually operate. No single gene controls any behavioral trait. Unfortunately, the public doesn't know that. There think there's a gene for eye color, for height, and for hair curliness, so why not one for sociability? Geneticists will not speak out. They all sit on the boards of private companies, and are in a race to identify genes they can patent for their own profit. Will this ever stop? Evidently not. |