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by dalke
4602 days ago
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Genetics was most certainly known before Crick. Indeed, the terms "genetics" and "gene" were coined over a decade before Crick was born, and the first research was by Mendel about 50 years before Crick's birth. I have not heard of a specifically Swedish addict gene, and I've lived in Sweden for over 6 years. Searching now, I found no mention of that concept, including searching for "missbrukare gen". Surely some may have said it, but it's not a widely held belief that's part of the debate on substance abuse. And of course this part of the thread started because you made a statement about puritanical Swedish religious beliefs of the 1800s, when it appears that religious beliefs in Sweden during that time were decidedly anti-pietism/anti-puritanical. What I conclude from all this is that you feel that your generalizations are correct, even though your details are not, and you make statements without worrying about checking those facts, or feeling that you need to explain the reasoning behind your generalizations. Perfectly fine for you do to that, but it's not the conversation I wanted, or want, to have. |
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I guess you didn't do much searching if you couldn't find this study[1] from Lund University or this study[2] from Gothenburg University.
From your sophmoric questioning and pedantic ramblings it seems your mind was made up before you even heard the answer.
> Perfectly fine for you do to that, but it's not the conversation I wanted, or want, to have.
Well to be fair I wasn't trying to have a conversation with you, and again, to be fair, you didn't do anything to add something to the general conversation besides your mild nationalism. Classy.
[1] http://www.research.med.lu.se/en_projektdetaljer.php?Proj=65...
[2] http://www.psy.gu.se/english/current/news/newsdetail//gene-i...