and no...an 'apathy pill' is not always going to be better"
And there you have the problem with this new treatment in a nutshell. It will go, like antidepressants, from "here's a drug that we don't really understand how it works or exactly what conditions to prescribe it under, but it may help you if you have these specific symptoms" to "Oh! You feel bad! Poor thing...here take these!" (family or ER doctor scribbles prescription and thrusts a handful of samples at the patient)
Can't find my source, but I thought the idea of learned characteristics being passed on genetically was what set Soviet genetics back four decades. FTA: "Indeed, one of the studies found that a boost in the brain's ability to rewire itself and a corresponding improvement in memory could be passed on." Wow.
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and no...an 'apathy pill' is not always going to be better"
And there you have the problem with this new treatment in a nutshell. It will go, like antidepressants, from "here's a drug that we don't really understand how it works or exactly what conditions to prescribe it under, but it may help you if you have these specific symptoms" to "Oh! You feel bad! Poor thing...here take these!" (family or ER doctor scribbles prescription and thrusts a handful of samples at the patient)
No thanks.
Can't find my source, but I thought the idea of learned characteristics being passed on genetically was what set Soviet genetics back four decades. FTA: "Indeed, one of the studies found that a boost in the brain's ability to rewire itself and a corresponding improvement in memory could be passed on." Wow.
to help the candidate determine that he or she wouldn't want to work at a place run by the kind of idiots that think this test is a good idea.