The nature-nurture discussion seems to get into a new round with this article on genes explaining test results. Do bear in mind that the source,The Spectator is rather conservative. But as I wrote a couple of days ago maybe genes are the new neurology and for this it’s worth reading:

“Just try starting an excited conversation about gene therapy, or about the young Chinese genius Zhao Bowen, who is, right now, hunting down the genes for intelligence. Faces will fall, there’ll be talk of eugenics, perhaps a sudden burst of inexplicable fury. This I know because I’ve felt it myself.

I felt it first with a friend who tried to tell me about the research being done by Professor Robert Plomin — who I’m now here waiting to meet. Professor Plomin is one of the world’s leading behavioural geneticists, which means he studies genes; not down a microscope, but by looking at the population and how we behave.”