Twins? Dopplegangers?

Twin Studies are big with Schizophrenia Researchers these days. They were big with Dr. Josef Mengele too. If you’ve got a weak stomach, or you want to sleep at night for the next 20 years, Don’t, go look up Mengele.
With due deference to the guy on the left, I preferred my Groucho Marx straight, no chaser. But at least MASH’s Dr. Hawkeye Pierce wasn’t taking money from poison manufacturers, who laugh all the way to the bank while they’re killing and crippling everyone from your newborn infant to your great grand parents. Hawkeye’s doppleganger to the right, according to Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon Krimsky, IS, taking that money.

The DSM-IV-TR panel tasked with defining who gets their throat slashed and torn out as a schizophrenic is comprised of 7 of these bribed, psychic, Cotton Mathers.

So far we’ve only taken a brief, between the fingers peek at 3 of these flippin’ witch hunters. You didn’t actually think I had even the vaguest intention of letting Any of these financially conflicted investigators just slink off to go investigate another few Million bucks of everybody else’s grant and award money, did you?
Let’s see what we’re getting in return for our taxes: each and every finessed, misappropriated, filched, stolen, and pissed down a rat hole damn dime of our taxes.

Here’s contestant #4, Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler: from his 2005 compost pile of excuses for pissing away $24.25 Million of your tax money since 1981.
‘Psychiatric Genetics: A Methodologic Critique’
American Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 162:3-11

Now I’m not going to go quoting long chunks of this – why the methodology underpinning Ken’s research [on your money] isn’t worth a structural bean - verbatim, because it’s windy enough to slap the Cutty Sark herself from Charleston to Liverpoole.
However, the KEY words [read weasel speak] to center on are CAPITALIZED.
Ken’s a guy with a very prolific pen, and it could pretty much ALL be similarly capitalized.

“MOLECULAR GENETICS ALSO HAS ONE NOTEWORTHY WEAKNESS: MANY PRACTICAL PROBLEMS STAND IN THE WAY OF CLARIFYING WHAT MAY BE THE EXTRAORDINARILY COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS FROM DNA VARIATION TO PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS.

This question can be framed in more philosophical language as, DO GENETIC RISK FACTORS REDUCE TO SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES?

THIS CENTRAL QUESTION MUST BE EVALUATED WITH GREAT CARE, BECAUSE IT CAN BE ADDRESSED ON TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS WITH DIVERGENT ANSWERS. [so vote yes on no, and no on yes] ON A THEORETICAL LEVEL, THE RESULTS OF TWIN AND ADOPTION STUDIES, IF PROPERLY CONDUCTED, SHOULD REFLECT THE DISTAL EFFECTS OF GENETIC VARIATION CODED IN DNA.
(NO ONE ACTIVELY WORKING IN PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS ARGUES SERIOUSLY THAT HERITABILITY AS ASSESSED IN TWIN OR ADOPTION STUDIES EMERGES FROM A VITALISTIC FORCE, ALTHOUGH THIS WAS ADVOCATED IN THE PAST IN BOTH BIOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CIRCLES.) [like the ‘hereditary defects’ the 60,000 Reichmark fellow in the last post’s header was suffering from?]
AT THIS THEORETICAL LEVEL, THEREFORE, THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS CLEAR – [yes, send more money] - GENETIC RISK FACTORS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN SIGNALS OF SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES.”

Gee, What boxes of secret wisdom might our next $24.25 Million worth of Eugenics twin studies open up for us?

Okay, let’s say that someday Kendler or someone else actually dredges up some genetic locus hocus pocus which predicts schizophrenia. Then What? Will genetic testing be done, in the womb, and potential schizophrenics be aborted wholesale as ‘life unworthy of living’? Even if we’re stupid enough to trust anyone’s BS promises of ‘we’ll fix that bridge when we get to it’ and even if the promisers Don’t turn out to be the same, tax sucking theoretical philosophizers they’ve already proven themselves [all show, no go] to be, and the hand of the God they refute actually intervenes and makes the in womb gene splice a reality, Then What?
We’ve gene spliced 99% of the truly gifted, creative talent right out of the gene pool. And without that creative talent to become future Hemingways, Van Goghs and Einsteins, life will get pretty God Damn boring for the rest of us, with a concomitant rise in the national ‘Depression’ index: Which, of course, is what these mental illness hucksters are all about anyway.
They’re plague rats, spreading non-existent illnesses, along with the all too existent legal and physical miseries that go along with all of their non-existent illnesses.

Face it, Some folks, like Van Gogh, Hemingway, Einstein and others just plain Have to live life with their ‘Mental Hair on Fire’. And Thank God for the rest of us that they did.
You Morlocks, on the other hand, won’t be satisfied until you’ve dragged each and every one of us down to your own, knuckle dragging, simian, unimaginative [except for when it comes to sticking us into the pot, and with the bill] existences.

Just WTF is it that you create anyway, besides mountains of funding covering, research paperwork?
You spend your lives and our money inflicting brain damage, misery and murder upon the rest of us solely to prevent our creating any strange thoughts, or any thoughts at all.
We finally got beyond Cotton Mather and spectral evidence being admitted in Court to hang witches with, and we’re long, long overdue, to similarly eject you and your spectral evidence from Courts of Law, to say nothing of the public trough.