Critiquing the wildly popular 1994 eugenicist book, which purported to link IQ and race, by reviewing the supposed genetic evidence. The post Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 3...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/03/bad-science-bell-curve/
The psychiatric genetics field is historically based in eugenics and diverts our attention from evidence-backed causes of human suffering and dysfunction. The post Psychiatric and Behavioral Ge...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/06/mary-boyle-interviews-jay-joseph/
The “genetics of mental disorders” story told in Kolker's "Hidden Valley Road" involves omission and misrepresentation of genetic research. The post “Hidden Valley Road” and Schizophren...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/01/hidden-valley-road-schizophrenia-genes/
This is the schizophrenia game. It has been played for over a century, and it’s time to stop. The post The Schizophrenia Genetics Illusion—A Century of Failure and Hype appeared first on M...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/12/schizophrenia-genetics-illusion/
A more detailed critical evaluation of molecular genetic studies, which have failed to discover genes shown to cause depression. The post Major Depression: The “Chemical Imbalance” Pillar I...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/08/depression-genetics-pillar/
Behavioral genetic “discoveries” are a mirage, a house of cards that ignores contradictory evidence from countless real-world examples and research findings from other fields, that collapses ...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/02/left-wing-behavioral-genetics/
Although Mitchell and Murray cited twin studies as the main source of evidence in support of their claims, these studies are based on a long-controversial assumption which they were unable to def...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/05/indefensible-equal-environment-assumption/
Supporters of the nature (genetic) side of the “nature versus nurture” debate often cite studies of “reared-apart” or “separated” MZ twin pairs (identical, monozygotic) in support of ...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/02/exploding-twin-study-myth/
Siddhartha Mukherjee clearly knew little about the evidence supporting his claim that schizophrenia is a “genetic disease,” yet he thought he knew enough to reach strong conclusions in favor ...
Robert Plomin's Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are was seen as a "declaration of victory of nature over nurture." Plomin has a 40-year track record of unfulfilled gene discovery claims and pr...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/09/blueprint-genetic-determinism/
Three Identical Strangers is a riveting film describing the story of identical triplets separated at six months of age and reunited in early adulthood. Their story provides no evidence in suppor...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/06/three-identical-strangers-nature-nurture-debate/
Assessing the validity of psychiatric twin research is important because it relates to the question of whether the main causes of psychological distress and dysfunction are located inside of th...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/12/twin-studies-prove-nothing-genetics-psychiatric-disorders/
The huge impact of the MISTRA, in addition to the harmful and regressive social and political policy implications that flow from it, necessitates a detailed analysis of the “science” behind t...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/11/bad-science-minnesota-study-twins-reared-apart/
Leon Kamin should be remembered for his role as an intellectual nemesis of the purveyors of the false ideologies of scientific racism and genetic determinism. The Science and Politics of I.Q., No...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/04/leon-j-kamin-nemesis-genetic-determinism/
Contrary to popular belief, science is not immune to the corrupting influences of the society it operates in. When false results produced by p-hacked research have social, scientific, and politic...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/11/bias-deception-behavioral-research/
The time has come to halt the massive failure that has characterized schizophrenia molecular genetic research, and to thoroughly reassess what critics have always said are the severely flawed fam...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/10/schizophrenia-genetic-research-running-on-empty/
In his 2016 book The Gene: An Intimate History, cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee chronicled the initial idea of the gene, taking readers through the history of genetics up to ...
In Part One, we saw that the “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (MISTRA) of Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. and colleagues was a behavioral genetic twin study conducted between 1979 and 2000, wi...
The latest endorsement of claims from research on twins reared apart comes from cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, who published an article in the May 2, 2016 edition of The Ne...
The wealthy, and the institutions they finance and promote, look favorably upon research whose authors claim that economic disparities are rooted in biology, and are not harmful to humanity as a ...