--Confronting Bad Seed Theory and Research-- Research Fraud. Interpretation of the Data -- Gregory Mendels model of genetics is nowhere to be found in genetic research for personality. This is explained as incomplete penetrance. Incomplete penetrance is a hypothesis that is not proven. It is a circular argument used to explain research failures to achieve significance. Incomplete penetrance implies that scientists failed to completely penetrate the genetic code that presumably existed because it was simply not completely penetrated. By its use it is assumed to be valid. Even biogeneticists say this concept is over-used. Its an explanation or rationalization that is thought to offer proof where there is lack of proof. -- If parents, the pharmaceutical industry, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association and genetic researchers didnt have so much invested in psychopathology being a medical problem, their research techniques and results would be either deemed clearly bogus, fraudulent or comical. -- The more biologists have difficulty isolating the gene, the more they modify their tune like a shell game. They introduce new concepts like the Diathesis-Stress Model. This model has no evidence behind it other than that it is an explanation for failure to achieve evidence of genetic causation. Evidence produced for environmental causes by pro-child scientists continues to be ignored by geneticists. So the Diathesis-Stress Model proposes that some people have stronger genetic constitutions and others have weaker constitutions, thus some are more susceptible to injury than others. Of course, this hangs out to dry the children whose parents need education and correction. This allegedly humanitarian model fails to consider very early attachment trauma as a cause for fragility; rather, it explains pathology in terms of genetic weakness. Most people introduced to the model appear to believe it is actual science. It is not; it is an unproven theory. The Causal Theory states that early childhood trauma, especially failure to attach or premature separation, accounts for fragility, and likewise, early healthy childhoods account for resilience. -- Another new shell-game theory of terminology is the epigenetic model in which it is proposed that genes may be modified by the environment. Epigenes modify the genetic expression without changing the nucleotide sequence (DNA). However there are no epigenes, per se. Once you wade through the double talk you will find out that the environment simply remains the determinant. Nevertheless, the geneticists try to interpret the data to mean that if genes are not the determinants, then at least the epigenes are, only they are called epigenetic factors. Epigenetic factors are not part of our makeup. They are introduced from the outside into the organism. Even mother love has now been said to be an epigenetic factor. Epigenetic factors are environment. The only value in reframing environment in terminology using the root word gene is that the reader or listener assumes genes are involved in causation that is nothing else but environment. Thats the general and intended idea. -- While there are mounds of evidence which have been replicated ad nauseum for environmental causes of behavior, there has been no such evidence for genetic causes. Yet the environmental research is essentially ignored. ~Faye Snyder, PsyD
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