Hedging Life

April 19, 2009 by  

The recent results on ongoing genome studies, report that they have far less predictive value than believed, or as one geneticist commented “The information has little or in many cases no clinical relevance.”

So this is my layperson’s oversimplified, reading between the lines interpretation: the genome race is largely based on building complex risk models using shaky data. The industries and businesses that use these models make their revenue and profit by selling products and services that hedge health risks that probably don’t exist because the models are bogus.

For me, as I read this, there’s an eerie sense of similarity to the hubris-driven financial industries that pushed the global economy off a cliff “because we can”. One can imagine a human DNA Ponzi scheme.

Bill Clinton eloquently warns us “Don’t bet against America.” We need to go further. We need to stop betting against nature with our scientific and technological advancements and use these gifts with reverence to advance our civilization.

Many would shoot down reverent capitalism as an oxymoron. I’m not buying it, and neither is nature.

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