Re: Re: genome news

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> A Marxist sociologist Steve Rosenthal replies to those who think
> that there is no problem
> with studying genome.
>
>
> Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
> PhD Student
> Department of Political Science
> SUNY at Albany
> Nelson A. Rockefeller College
> 135 Western Ave.; Milne 102
> Albany, NY 12222

>  Because of these sharp critiques, Wilson reinvented himself as an
>  environmentalist concerned about bio-diversity.

Serious critics of Wilson don't make such an accusation because it is
false. One can be--and Wilson always has been--both a sociobiologist
and an environmentalist concerned about bio-diversity.

And a critique of sociobiology is not an argument against trying to
use knowledge about our genes to cure and prevent diseases...


Brad DeLong