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	[quote name="blackwater"][quote name="saltlord"]The difference between a chinese liver and a russian one, or between my brain and yours, are all potential facts according to academics. It's of interest to prescribers what your metabolism's gonna do and if it can be predicted in a way that saves people suffering on the wrong drugs, it should and policy should reflect it. With cheap testing. Like the pharmacogenomic testing I took.[/quote] Actually, there are already activists working on trying to stop hospitals from using race to give better medical treatment. A few weeks ago I found a twitter post from one of them bragging about causing some hospital or other to stop considering race when treating liver issues. Sorry, I can't find the link now. [quote name="saltlord"]Not all doctors believe in the testing, but then some doctors are fucking cranks that believe prozac doesn't have side effects (my personal experience) or that they should marry their kids or whatever the fuck.[/quote] As I recall, Scott's position was that genetic testing wasn't that helpful when prescribing anti-depressants. I think the reason boiled down to the testing being only moderately accurate, and also expensive. Keep in mind that the alternative, just trying different courses of anti-depressants on a patient until one "clicks," is pretty easy to do. [quote name="saltlord"]The debate about policy needing to be driven by modern day genetic research is gonna go on long after they disprove the bell curve once and for all (now THAT'S racist shit). This guy had a dumb, premature notion - I'll wait until I have evidence to judge how it materially affected his patient-oriented behavior as a clinician.[/quote] Debate? There is no debate. If you breathe a word about genetic differences in IQ in public, you will lose your job and be cancelled. You're allowed to talk about genetic differences in liver function or whatever for now, but that may soon be unacceptable as well. There is a huge amount of evidence for genetic variation in intelligence, but it certainly doesn't matter in the current political climate. What is in the process of happening is that we're going to stop doing any kind of standardized testing in order to sweep the gaps under the rug. The process started in the 1970s with <a href="https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-dead-end-of-disparate-impact">Griggs v. Duke Power</a>. It's going to finish soon with <a href="https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/a-special-announcement-about-sat-subject-tests/">the end of the SATs, ACTs, for admissions to college.</a>[/quote]