| Medical professionals and researchers, for | | | | or their well-being. |
| self-serving reasons of their own, confine their | | | | They must know that the ideas they are |
| thinking and investigations to asking questions such | | | | marketing are false. |
| as, | | | | If Nature or genes caused behavior, then every |
| "Is our behavior caused by Nature or Nurture?" | | | | pair of identical twins (who have identical genes |
| "How much is behavior or personality influencedby | | | | and chromosomes) should behave the same. Yet, |
| Nature and how much by Nurture?" | | | | identical twins never behave the same. |
| There are serious problems associated with this | | | | If Nurture or the environment caused behavior, |
| kind of narrow thinking. | | | | then in a typical family with three children who |
| Firstly, the assumption that behavior is caused by | | | | experience the same two parents growing up, live |
| Nature and/or Nurture is entirely false. The | | | | in the same neighborhoods, go to the same |
| essential cause of how a person behaves is to be | | | | schools, and attend the same church, synagogue, |
| found in the nature of his or her choices, not in | | | | or mosque, should behave the same. Yet, as any |
| the physical body or physical environment. | | | | parent knows, children in the same family never |
| The huge amounts of money, time, talent, and | | | | behave the same. |
| energy invested to determine whether the cause | | | | During the past 40 years, as evidence |
| of behavior is Nature or Nurture are bound to | | | | accumulated that neither Nature or Nurture |
| yield nothing but false speculations. They are | | | | caused behavior, scientists and medical |
| costly and misdirected shams. | | | | professionals came out with a new theory that |
| The effort is similar to a person attempting to | | | | combined the two ideas. It goes something like |
| find the essential cause of a beautiful symphony | | | | "Behavior is caused by a complex combination of |
| by looking everywhere but at the symphony's | | | | biological and environmental factors." |
| composer. The search is directed to investigating | | | | Well, two wrongs have never made a right and |
| the sheet music, members of the orchestra and | | | | they do not in this instance. The public is being |
| audience, musical instruments, and the seating and | | | | sold a "bill of goods" for very dubious medical |
| physical structure of the music hall. | | | | reasons. Most people buy it for selfish and |
| Medical researchers are confining their | | | | irresponsible reasons of their own. |
| investigations to genes and DNA, brain chemicals | | | | The true cause of behavior is and always has |
| and brain tissue, patient's relatives, virus', vitamin | | | | been "CHOICE." If a person makes right choices, |
| deficiencies, and the like. Behavior is caused by | | | | his or her behavior will be positive and nurturing. |
| psychology-by the nature of a person's | | | | When a person is making wrong (selfish) choices, |
| choices-not by biology. | | | | his or her behavior will be negative and |
| Medical professionals doggedly insist the cause is | | | | destructive. |
| "biological" because that idea enables the | | | | Since we all have innate free choice and the ability |
| pharmaceutical companies that manufacture | | | | to be aware of what is truly right, positive (loving) |
| psychiatric drugs and the doctors who write drug | | | | change is always possible, anytime we are |
| prescriptions to get rich. Money and greed underlie | | | | sincerely willing to change. |
| the "biological push," not true concern for patients | | | | |