It's Not All in the Genes

While genetic studies appear to be "the mythical guise of pure science and objective knowledge about nature," they turn out "underneath, to be political, economic, and social ideology."¹⁵

Richard Lewontin
Harvard Professor
Author, Biology as Ideology

• ADHD and mental problems are not inherited. They are not based on your genes or how your brain works. They are not a physical disease. You can't look at them under a microscope or by using a brain scan or x-ray.

• Harvard professor Richard Lewontin, author of Biology as Ideology, says, "The fact is, not a single study of personality traits in human populations successfully disentangles similarity because of shared family experience and similarity because of genes..."¹⁶

• David Kaiser, a practicing psychiatrist in Chicago and affiliated with Northwestern University Hospital, states, "…modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness..."¹⁷