It is often assumed that some mysterious conditions such as eating disorders, mental illness and homosexuality are genetically inherited. The basis is psuedo-scientific correlation studies.

While there are definitely biochemical elements to such problems, they are seldom inherited; and while some elements are sometimes inherited, that result can not be determined by correlation studies.

Correlation studies are corrupted applications of statistics. They are the equivalent of astrology.

An astrologer can show a correlation between the stars and any personal or social situation. The reason why is because there are always an infinite number of relationships between all realities. There are always some coincidences that can be picked out and given a false significance.

Astrologers demonstrate why correlation studies are an improper use of statistics. They show that coincidences do not indicate causation. Yet the purpose of correlation studies is to indicate causation through coincidences.

Supposedly, a low probability of randomness indicates causation. There are numerous reasons why that assumption is a fallacy. The most common error is to assume the wrong reason for the result. Another error is that low probability relationships are often random, but the statistics are misapplied.

A typical junk science procedure is do a CAT scan on the brains of ten persons looking for differences. About six or seven will invariably show a dark area, while the others do not. The dark areas are then correlated with homosexuality or schizophrenia.

About half of the time, the correlation will be the reverse of the desired result. But when dozens of such "studies" are conducted, about half of them will show correlations in the desired direction. The psuedo-scientists then run to the media saying they found the disease in the brain. The media reports it as science. Later, other scientists show that the results are not valid, but the media never reports the corrections.

Genetic inheritance is studied through statistical analysis because of the impossibility of following genes from person to person. Nowdays, genes are followed more easily, but it is still impossible to say what manifestations should be observed for most genes.

Statistical studies work good for the simplest mendelian inheritance, where there are only a few variations and no unknowns in the outward manifestations of the results. A study of green peas and yellow peas is where it all began.

But most genetic questions involve large amounts of unknown complexity and are influenced by factors which are not genetic. It is almost impossible to apply statistics in a valid manner to those questions.

Such questions include eating disorders, mental illness and homosexuality. When someone says those conditions are genetically inherited, they are being duped. Science cannot make such determinations, not the least reason being that no one can agree upon ninety percent of the subject matter.

Those subjects are extremely complex. They include values and subjective concerns in addition to infinite objective relationships. To reduce the subject to a supposed scientific test and genetic cause is to say none of the complexity matters. It's too slick of a weapon for erasing the arguments of opponents. But the supposed science is not science at all.

One of the hallmarks of corrupt science is conflicts in logic. For example, it is more logical that homosexuality is caused by birth control pills than by genetic inheritance. Sexuality is controlled by hormones during embryonic development, while birth control pills contain such hormones. It might be assumed that the mothers do not have such hormones in them during embryonic development, but they often would, because the chemicals are stored in fat and released later. However, there are a wide variety of causes for homosexuality.

Mental illness is even more complex and subjective. One person's mental illness is another person's logic. A genetic basis for mental illness is promoted by persons who do not separate values from molecules. They claim the mind is the brain, and molecules control everything in it. Why then do so many conservative Christians promote that line when they claim thought is a product of the spirit rather than molecules? They say the drugs work. Whether something works is a value statement. The death camps worked for the Nazis. The first question is whether something should work and by what criteria.

Some persons say eating disorders are not about food—they are genetically inherited. It seems that genetics is about molecules, molecules are about eating and eating is about food. Genetics and food are not separable concepts.

A link between genetics and food is demonstrated by heroin addiction. All of the reactions of heroin addiction occur naturally in everyone at a lower level. Nature's purpose with those reactions is to create positive reinforcements for the psychological control of behavior. Control of eating is one of the purposes.

Positive reinforcements create conditioned reactions in the mind. Molecules influence the mind in crude ways. Knowledge and experience influence the mind in more complex ways. That's the difference between humans and ants.

Humans determine their results through complex decisions which interact with and override molecular influences on the mind. To reduce actions to a molecular level is to say humans are no different than ants. There are often laws requiring humans to operate above the molecular level in avoiding crime and meeting responsibilities, regardless of what their molecules want them to do.