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The causes of autism are in the news these days. In my 2006 book "The Missing Gene," I assessed the evidence that autism has a genetic basis. The evidence usually cited came from twin and DNA-based research. I concluded that the genetic evidence was weak. Chapters: drive.google.com/file/d/1voc_...

Good news. The key point is to differentiate true genetic diseases like Huntington's from major psychiatric conditions, which are not diseases and are not genetic. In psychiatry, there can be no gene therapy because there are no genes to therapize. Just "psychiatric yetis," using EF Torrey's term.

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin. It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

My new article: “The 110-Year ‘Schizophrenia Genetic Research’ Train Wreck.” "The schizophrenia/psychosis causality puzzle pieces will fit together much better once we knock the ‘genetics’ pieces off the table.” www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/the-...

Psychiatric Genetics founder Ernst Rüdin co-wrote the 1934 book promoting and explaining the 1933 Nazi forced sterilization law. Rüdin showed doctors how to perform the procedure. The law was based on eugenic junk science, and about 6,000 people died as a direct result of the procedure.

This massively and openly p-hacked schizophrenia adoption study was published 50 years ago, and is still cited in most psychiatry textbooks. If p-hacking and relying on faulty assumptions are "highly heritable traits," this would explain most psychiatric genetic research "findings."

Joseph is always worth reading

The Freedom Flotilla is once again setting sail: Dozens of boats from 44 countries are carrying aid, food, medicine, and doctors to Gaza, aiming to break through 18 years of Israeli siege.

My new article: “The 110-Year ‘Schizophrenia Genetic Research’ Train Wreck.” "The schizophrenia/psychosis causality puzzle pieces will fit together much better once we knock the ‘genetics’ pieces off the table.” www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/the-...

Kety's Danish schizophrenia adoption study and Bouchard's Minn. "reared apart" twin IQ study are world famous. In both studies, no genetic influences vs. the control group were found. The first study's author changed the control group. The author of the second study hid the control group data.

NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

The U.S. government sends troops to cities allegedly to "fight crime." One reason is the regime's belief that criminal behavior is "in the genes." In this 2001 article, I showed that there is no valid evidence supporting this old belief. There still isn't. jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/is-crime-i...

Interesting article. If the NY Times approached behavioral and psychiatric genetic research publications with the same level of scrutiny, as opposed to its usual practice of reporting them as examples of solid science, both fields might collapse.

Patrick Sullivan is a leading psychiatric genetic researcher. Yet his website states, "...specific genes that have a causal role in [schizophrenia] have yet to be identified." 50 years of failed searches for what EF Torrey called a "psychiatric yeti." www.med.unc.edu/genetics/dir...

As Jews who know our history, we know what threats of forced relocation lead to.

“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

The consent issue is real. But another issue is that 50 years of failed causal gene discovery attempts based on mistakenly accepting twin studies as gospel have shown, most likely, that there are no genetic influences on psychiatric disorders to be found in these blood samples.

Someone should ask the author why she and her colleagues failed to publish their 1990 @science.org control group IQ correlations. jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/a-reevalua... jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-1990-m...

I wrote last year about the un-seriousness with which Nucleus approached their IQ product and the damage it could do to genetic prediction and research more broadly (theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/genomic-pr...). This appears to have been a broader pattern beyond IQ, extending even to rare disease.

A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵

Earlier today, police arrested mass numbers of Jews and people of conscience at the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand in New York City as they chanted, "Let Gaza Live," "End The Siege, and "Let Aid In Now."

"As professional bioethicists, we would have those same concerns—if Nucleus Embryo actually did what it claims. But it doesn’t. The cinematic analogy to Nucleus Embryo isn’t GATTACA. It’s The Dropout—the 2022 miniseries about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos."

Jaakko Seikkula joins Robert Whitaker on the Mad in America #podcast to discuss how Open Dialogue came to be, the research that shows its positive outcomes, how psychiatry has failed to learn from Open Dialogue practice and more. #psychology www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/is-d...

THIS IS A RED ALERT: THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT IS STARVING GAZA TO DEATH uscpract.org/powerhour

@booker.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social @warnock.senate.gov Please ban this AI from government contracts! This can’t be allowed to use govt funds.

this is why scientists and scholars of every stripe cannot be silent or stay on the sidelines. There are no more sidelines. Huge swaths of people put their faith in "Grok" and related "AI" for basic knowledge. If there is not a tsunami of resistance then this BS becomes baseline "knowledge."

“85% of Gaza’s population have entered the ‘fifth stage’ of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future,” says Palestinian reporter Anas al-Sharif.

Over at X, "Grok" now cites Arthur Jensen and JP Rushton in favor of genetic "root causes" of racial differences in IQ scores.

A tweet from Ori Goldberg who has been consistently critical of the Palestinian Genocide.

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like. And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

Between June 29th and July 6th, 2025, Grok was reprogrammed on the "racial differences in IQ scores" topic. In June, the "scientific consensus" strongly supported environmental causes. By July 6th, citing twin studies, Grok was claiming "largely genetic" causes while endorsing "The Bell Curve."

Steven Rose was a neuroscientist and critic of genetic determinist views of human behaviour; he was also a founder member of the now defunct British Society for Social Responsbility in Science (which perhaps needs to be resurrected…) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

A leading anti-hereditarian thinker and writer has passed away. A great man who will be missed. His work lives on, such as the classic 1984 book he co-wrote which influenced me greatly, "Not in Our Genes."

Ten days ago, "Grok" said that group differences in IQ scores were caused by non-genetic factors (the "scientific consensus"). Now, after a well-documented recent pro-fascism algorithm adjustment, it cites twin studies and "The Bell Curve" as supporting "largely genetic" causes.

Important to note that the "Cindy Steinberg" account on Twitter(now suspended) that prompted Grok's "Hitler is good" replies was a fake account created by nazis to seed posts they could shriek at. It matters b/c nearly all the anti-SJW stuff a decade ago was based on posts created using this tactic.

Ten days ago, "Grok" said that group differences in IQ scores were caused by non-genetic factors (the "scientific consensus"). Now, after a well-documented recent pro-fascism algorithm adjustment, it cites twin studies and "The Bell Curve" as supporting "largely genetic" causes.

Between June 29th and July 6th, 2025, Grok was reprogrammed on the "racial differences in IQ scores" topic. In June, the "scientific consensus" strongly supported environmental causes. By July 6th, citing twin studies, Grok was claiming "largely genetic" causes while endorsing "The Bell Curve."

Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd

My new Substack post: "The Missing Heritability Problem is a Twin Study Misinterpretation Problem: Comments on Scott Alexander’s 'Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know.'" jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-missin...

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

We should keep in mind that the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart 1990 IQ Science Magazine publication is the main study cited by race scientists, HBDers, and IQ hereditarians in support of their positions. Also the main "IQ heritability" study cited in "The Bell Curve." osf.io/preprints/ps...

The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/

Another Jordan Lasker connection that @awinston.bsky.social and I reported on last year: Last June an organization called Lightcone Infrastructure--an outgrowth of Effective Altruism--hosted a conference called Manifest at a former hotel in Berkeley, CA (1/3) www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

🧵 1/ Eugenics isn’t ancient history @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social traces how the 19th-century idea of “improving” humanity through selective breeding keeps mutating - and why it never stopped threatening human rights 👇

The shocking thing about Trump tossing off a “shylock” slur is he pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories, said he needs accountants with “funny little hats,” does dual loyalty smears, openly speaks of Good Jews and Bad Jews, hired neo-Nazis, and more, and media still says he’s opposing antisemitism.

Jonathan Greenblatt is busy smearing leftists, students, and Palestinians.