NEW HEART MEDICATION PILL DESINGED FOR BLACK CONSUMERS

There is a new heart medication pill that is to be marketed / targeted to the African American heart patients. This is very controversial to say the least. The reason being is that it implies a biological bases for race, to the degree that the pill is designed and intended for black people.

This is potentially very great and very ominous. Indeed, it’s the proverbial double edged sword that cuts both ways. It is potentially great in that science is attempting to target and cure problems acute or endemic to black people. It is ominous because if blacks can be biologically targeted with medicine to our good, we can therefore also be biologically targeted for the bad as well.

He who increases knowledge eventually increases sorry. This is always the trade off as long as there exist good and evil in the world. AIDS is already seen as a man made biological war upon black life, although its is not a disease that can only be manifested in black people. It was just released in an area and through a conduit that was calculated to cause maximum damage among black lives.

The whole issue of biology and race is a very dangerous one. There is already studies that have shown that blacks have a slightly higher levels of testosterone than do whites. Thus, some people are linking these findings to the correlation with high levels of violence committed by blacks. They argue that testosterone increases the propensity in violence as demonstrated by the difference in violence between the gender and the corresponding testosterone level differences.

The danger is that knowledge gains comes in increments. Thus, once certain findings are released concerning racial differences, no matter how slight, people are going to use it to promote the doctrine of racial superiority or inferiority or to explain variances in behavior, such as violence. This is an example of a little knowledge being very dangerous. People can and do draw very wrong conclusions prematurely.

I know that in my own profession as a system analysis, sometimes I come across a discovery while debugging some code in an attempt at problem resolution. There have been occasion that I prematurely and erroneously jumped to conclusions, simply because it was the first thing I discovered that had changed or was different. However, eventually when I continue on studying the algorithms and branching, I discover that the code I thought was in error was actually compensated for in another section of code. I think that the same is possible and probable in biological studies. Some time they may find variations, only to have those variation in the future reconciled with new information about chemicals or proteins that work to balance or offset the higher or lesser levels of another.

We are truly embarking upon levels of science and knowledge that can greatly benefit us, but simultaneously, greatly threaten our existence. As the Kenyon recent Noble Prize winner has noted, the new phase of warfare is biological.

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