Genetic Research Lacks Science – Political Social Control is Genetics Agenda

Over the last twenty years, human genetic research has convinced the public that genetic factors often underlie disease and human behavior. Yet the genomic research project, which is one of the most expensive science programs ever conceived, has almost entirely failed to identify the important genes that geneticists predicted, or to account for the occurrence of human illness. Thus the BRCA1 equals breast cancer example, which remains the most cited example of a genetic contribution to common disease, plays a role in less than 10% of all breast cancer cases. This contrast between the hype of genetics and the meagre reality exposes, first a failure of geneticists to honestly report their results, and second a failure of the science media. It also brings into focus the disturbing historical fact that human disease genetics first attained prominence with money from the tobacco industry. The tobacco industry had decided it urgently needed to find alternative explanations for lung cancer and tobacco addiction that were capable of dissipating public opprobrium and derailing potential legal actions. Genetics research receives billions of dollars in government funding, and its agenda has become very clear. In the absence of solid scientific data, its is being used politically for social control and to protect invested interests such as the pharmaceutical industry. Genetics is NOT a blueprint for disease or intelligence, as the public has been misled to believe.