Official: Philip is not a fool

[David Horne]

At 06:06 PM 8/16/1999 EDT, you wrote:
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>"Charles Brown" wrote:
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>>Seems to me the sinister, deeper message is something like "see, we even
say 
>the Royal >family has genes for lower intelligence in its history. So, the 
>notion of genetic determination >of intelligence is not elitist or racist, 
>otherwise why would we say it impacts the Royals ?"
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>I agree -- and it certainly helps that any Royals who might be impacted are 
>dead or obscure enough that it won't be considered important.  
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>>Leaving aside the false theory of genetic determination of intelligence
for 
>a moment...
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>And what a theory!  Have you heard of this supposed "link" mentioned in the 
>article before?
>Or what the "treatment" of the Japanese man was?
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>(From the original Sunday Times article):
><<The link between genetics and IQ scores was found only four years ago,
when 
>the primary differences between a group of American children with IQs of 130 
>and another group with IQs of 82 was a single gene, EST00083.  <snip>
>Mark Thomas, a genetics lecturer at University College London, said there
was 
>hope for anyone who had the gene. A Japanese man treated for a similar 
>condition saw his IQ immediately increase by 20 points. >>
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>This sounds completely off-the-wall to me.
>K.Mickey

Right. Has anyone considered the possibility that this whole thing might be
some kind of elaborate joke?

David Horne
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