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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Or to hide which classes one was in so private investigators can't track down 
every classmate and conduct background interviews.  Questions like do you 
remember him, did he show up in class, did he use drugs, who did he hang out 
with, what kind of views were expressed in class (philosophical, political, 
social, etc).  Sealing the records helps keep the closet door to the skeleton 
closet shut.




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DH bought a lot of what they were selling.  I told him the only reason a 
*supposedly* highly intelligent person would seal their college records was 
because they weren't a highly intelligent person.

Now DH's is talking about "why did he seal his college records." <g>

Lynda
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From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>


.....why am I thinking about a slightly different version from Forest 
Gump.............."Stupid does as stupid is......."

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Our fault, dear Butus, ...

... is not in our stars .. and it turns out not even in ourselves.

Not directly touching on homesteading perhaps, but several of our discussions 
in the past touched on this.

To the mechanistic view that the human being is an elaborate clockwork 
mechanism generated and determined by its genes, I have always opined that 
this all pervasive faith in genetics is much akin the medieval faith in 
astrology.  As the more and more evidence comes in, turns out I haven't been 
far wrong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/health/research/13genome.html


The seminal passage in this article is:
"But with most diseases, the findings have explained only a small part of the 
risk of getting the disease. And many of the genetic variants linked to 
diseases, some scientists have begun to fear, could be statistical illusions."

The phrase "statistical illusion" is one that appears often in the writings 
that treat genetic research frankly.

The above linked article tries to soft sell the news by intimating that 
although the mapping of the human genome has yielded a plethora of insights 
only we haven't come up with any concrete cures based on them  yet, it also 
includes reference to the studies that tried to predict disease based on 
genetic makup and found (as the article puts it) "variants turned out to have 
no value in forecasting disease."

The thing I discovered was this:  when I discussed this article with 'genes 
explain everything' folks, the replies I got were "oh .. we don't see the 
connection between genetic makeup and disease (or behavior or wotnot) NOW ... 
but we WILL!"  In the face of evidence that looking for a genetic etiology to 
explain the human condition it is getting more and more clear that it is not 
a matter of incomplete understanding but rather it is following a red 
herring, being on a rum start, barking up the wrong tree ... the true genetic 
believer brushes it off as if it is not germane to the discussion,

Just exactly like the religious fundamentalists ....


Meanwhile it is beginning to appear that astrology is indeed just about as 
good a predictor of disease and a guide to cures as genetics.



James

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