Check out this TED talk from Jim Fallon.
My take: pretty dicey stuff to kinda just throw out there. Definitely needs a longer talk!
Probably not likely that you can “spot bad news” reliably in the family tree using these methods. Also, by the mere suggestion of “bad news” you alter the course of things.
and is this something we actually want to do? This is a question not only in murder and violence, but for all of genetic profiling.
Jim Fallon weighs in on the TED page in a comment:
I’m with my family right now on vacation in Cabo and they are asking me the same question; if I thought one of them had the requisite genetic, developmental, brain trauma, exposure to 3D violence and it began to show prodromally, that is before the pathological behavior would be expressed (especially in their teens), would I tell them? We have the same potential problem with Alzheimer’s disease. And they all say they want to know, but when I say everything is OK, they say “but how do we know you’re just not protecting us from the truth?” How do you get around THAT problem?
