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It is unfortunate we are still misdirecting funds to fruitless endeavors like genetics. As we know, genetics has little influence on your individual biology or

It is unfortunate we are still misdirecting funds to fruitless endeavors like genetics. As we know, genetics has little influence on your individual biology or behavior, as race is a social construct and each human shares 99.9% of their DNA with each other. Further, hegemonic tools of assigning assumed traits to people, like gender and IQ, are also social constructs, so any connection they have to genetics is moot. If we are truly interested in having a diverse, equitable understanding of people, we should instead invest in efforts that actually seek to understand them as people: therapy, rehabilitation, and decolonization work. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/race-is-real-but-its-not-genetic https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/race-is-real-b... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics#Race_and_human_genetic_variation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics#Race_and_h... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fundamentally-flawed-and-using-them-alone-to-measure-intelligence-is-a-fallacy-study-finds-8425911.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fund...

ineedasername 5y ago
If you do a few basic searches on the applications of this knowledge then you will see that the vast majority of research & benefits that have built off of it have nothing to do with anything you mentioned here. Information about the benefits of genomic research are trivially easy to find. To get you started in general, checkout [1] below. For one of the most prominent examples-- the way it fundamentally transformed cancer research, checkout [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=genomic+research+applications https://www.google.com/search?q=genomic+research+application... [2] https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-features/latest-features/how-the-human-genome-project-shook-the-world-of-cancer-research https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-features/latest-features/how-the-...
astrange 5y ago
> As we know, genetics has little influence on your individual biology or behavior, as race is a social construct and each human shares 99.9% of their DNA with each other. The first part of your sentence doesn't follow from the second despite the second part being true. (well… the "99.9%" part is pop science bullshit.) Genomes do run in families, that being the whole point of them. And they certainly do have health effects whether they're shared with everyone or unique to you.

ineedasername 5y ago

If you do a few basic searches on the applications of this knowledge then you will see that the vast majority of research & benefits that have built off of it have nothing to do with anything you mentioned here. Information about the benefits of genomic research are trivially easy to find. To get you started in general, checkout [1] below. For one of the most prominent examples-- the way it fundamentally transformed cancer research, checkout [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=genomic+research+applications https://www.google.com/search?q=genomic+research+application... [2] https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-features/latest-features/how-the-human-genome-project-shook-the-world-of-cancer-research https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-features/latest-features/how-the-...

astrange 5y ago

> As we know, genetics has little influence on your individual biology or behavior, as race is a social construct and each human shares 99.9% of their DNA with each other. The first part of your sentence doesn't follow from the second despite the second part being true. (well… the "99.9%" part is pop science bullshit.) Genomes do run in families, that being the whole point of them. And they certainly do have health effects whether they're shared with everyone or unique to you.