I was googling terms related to social science and genetics, and I happened on TCD’s research website, where they have a theme for “Genetics and Society“, selling their research in the area. Mostly anodyne boosterism but I tripped up at what they had to say about sociology:

In Trinity, multi-disciplinary teams work together to address key questions;

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In Sociology: how will individuals and society benefit from this information?

Such weak sauce. They obviously didn’t talk to any knowledgeable sociologists.

It triggered a rant (though to be fair, about points I’d been thinking about already, relative to the relationship between the social sciences and the new biology, so this isn’t all really at TCD’s expense). Continue reading Genetics and Sociology →