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...have hit at the heart of the controversy: if Laetrile is legalized as a cancer cure without any evidence of its effectiveness, where will the line on such "cures" ever be drawn? Only the helpless and desperate will suffer, while the promoters of these unproven remedies will money. continue to count their...
...sense, most, if not all, of the many thousands of loci in the human genome are concerned with behavior." 7 Rather, the distinction between behavioral and non-behavioral traits reflects a naive, dichotomous perception of mind and body. Thus the contention of Wilson's critics that it is "an unproven assumption that genes for behavior exist" is not only incorrect by conventional standards of scientific demonstration, but also reflects an uncritical assumption that mind and body, structure and process, can be clearly distinguished...
Bupp, the lead-off witness, termed nuclear power "the most important attempt to modernize society since the railroad," but he stressed that it depends on several unproven assumptions...
...Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and a leader of Science for The People, attacked the XYY study, and "much of human behavioral genetics," as a pseudo-science, which attempted to perpetuate unproven ideas in the public mind...