Comments on: Outlie This: Breaking Research Reveals Talent Gene?

By: Greg Pritchard

Greg Pritchard — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:43:39 +0000

I can’t believe that a gene could make you talented. Although your genetics can make stuff happen easyer but the impact from the surroundings is as important.

By: Steve - Integrated Marketing

Steve - Integrated Marketing — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:08:40 +0000

Let’s say talent is genetic. Does that imply a person sitting on the couch watching television is going to become a success? Probably not.

Talent might make success easier, but it’s not a guarantee. If you watch football, there are plenty of extremely physically-gifted players who wash out and moderately physically-gifted players who’ve made the Hall of Fame.

Genetics has to give you a headstart, that’s just the way evolution works. But you have to put in the effort.

By: Elizabeth Rogers

Elizabeth Rogers — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:52:16 +0000

Young Mozart composed symphonies by the time he was eight years old. Try to chalk this up to ‘hard work’…

The main problem is that of envy, our refusal to accept that some people can be effortlessly excellent at something the rest of us cannot be merely adequate in with countless hours of practice, the problem not of a Mozart but of a Salieri (watch ‘Amadeus’ for details).

As far as I know, however, no ‘gene therapy’ is on offer, so far, to exterminate envy…

By: Paul Sunstone

Paul Sunstone — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:18:27 +0000

I’m under the impression that genes play a varying role in talents. They might account for 80% of some talents and only 50% of others. I think how much they contribute to a talent must be studied on a case by case basis.

By: Justin, Airsoft Rifles

Justin, Airsoft Rifles — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:53:48 +0000

I only think gene therapy should be used to fix inheritable diseases, which are truly devastating. Going beyond that is going too far in my opinion.

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:36:54 +0000

If it’s an amino acid in a protein this implies that it can be impacted through diet. If so this makes for interesting implications…

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:21:52 +0000

Wow. This would truly be something. It does freak me out a little bit, but once you take a step back and realize that there are pro’s and con’s to everything… Then it starts to excite me.

It could bring very good things into many different areas of life, but on the flipside, it would be something that could be abused.

Either way… it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.

By: Rachel Burkot

Rachel Burkot — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:08:05 +0000

I think the potential for abusing this would likely come in the sports arena. If we’re worried now about athletes on steroids, imagine would they could possibly do with these genes. I think this area involves probing into things that probably should not be probed. Just let nature take its course.

By: Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome

Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:10:51 +0000

My first reaction to the idea was “Idiots” – because nothing happens in isolation – it’s all interrelated and we ignore that at our peril. Look at the environment – we add frogs to Australia and they create an environmental catastrophe. We can’t change just one thing and expect nothing else to change.

The idea mainly scares me because with the way our culture is so success-driven (in that the only “winners” are the people who make bazillions of dollars) people are going to shoot up their unborn kids with this gene therapy without knowing the true side effects or consequences. Same with HGH – what side effects are there? We can’t know.