It also found significant evidence of association with variation on chromosomes 11 and 18 that could help account for the thinking and memory deficits of schizophrenia.
Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities.
Her critique of the lameness of many public-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.
Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first lamb—mice, cats, cows and, most recently, a dog—and it's becoming increasingly clear that they are all, in one way or another, defective.