>this sounds like an effort to drive up the value of Celera's stock (if it
>is a "public" company). Scientists aren't supposed to announce results
>before they have them.
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
There's something more insidious going on here besides insider trading.
The San Francisco Chronicle AUGUST 1, 1992:
A controversial notion that biology, not social factors, is to blame for
criminal behavior has ignited a debate among scholars and led a federal
agency to freeze money for a symposium dealing with the subject.
The idea that humans may have a genetic predisposition to lawlessness has
disturbed researchers who say that the theories may provide a modern-day
underpinning for old racist beliefs and be used as a new form of control
for blacks and members of other minority groups.
A conference planned for October at the Institute for Philosophy and Public
Policy at the University of Maryland was supposed to bring together
scholars and government officials to look at the genetic influences on
crime. The conference is sponsored by the Human Genome Project, a $ 3
billion government research project designed to identify 100,000 human genes.
But the proposed gathering has come under fire for seeming to dismiss an
entire body of research that says that criminal behavior has its roots in
personality and socioeconomic background, as well as family influences.
Louis Proyect
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