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What-If no Mendel (science revisionism incl.DNA?
If 2 blue-eyed persons get kids, they are almost always blue-eyed.
Of one parent is brown-eyed, chance of brown eyes is little more than 50% 
in Scandinavia, much more in brown-eye countries.
If both have brown eyes, chance of brown eyes is more than 75% in 
Scandinavia, almost 100% in brown eye countries(where both parents are 
likely to have this dominant trait, from both grandparents).

Such tendency to "laws" has been felt and known and even described for 
centuries - but not described in a scientific language.

Last century genetics became fashionable. This was felt by the monk 
Mendel, and he improved his findings (it seems) about color of plants and 
made some pretty laws about dominant genes(like brown eyes) and recessive 
genes(like blue eyes) and eventually they got famous and medical 
specialists in genetic conditions used them to boost their speciality and 
claim that they might prevent hereditary suffering, if they were given 
more funds
(As so many scientists Mendel was a bit dishonest, since it could not be 
checked - his results seem too good to be true, in light of modern 
knowledge).

The very few responsible couples that fear their kid getting a disease 
already in the family, was helped a bit by the clever classification, 
since in case of the condition being dominant, it may only be one of the 
parents that is responsible.

Much more important was the contribution of this science to eugenics by 
forced sterilisation of dumb people, in many parts of Europe and USA, 
even earlier than Hitler used the ideas.

The Darwin and Mendel knowledge was easily distorted as a support for 
biological racism.

Much biological research has had the hidden aggenda to fight vitalism - 
the idea of a spritual life force.
Finding DNA-molecules as being a decisive agent of passing qualities from 
parent to offspring, has been grossly abused as an argument of genetical 
determinism, thus contradicting  religion.
That something may be measured exactly, overshadows that most disease is 
partly caused by psychological conditions.
Except for few types of fetusses being killed off by provoked abortion 
after prenatal diagnosis, some of which uses DNA-tecknology,the progress 
due to DNA insight is little, and this is misrepresented by journalists 
to make people believe that genetics has improved health.
Even forensics has not been improved very much. As in the case of hyping 
Einstein, the misinformation cause exagerated respect of some educated 
elite and thus higher taxes, but the medias wisely keep quiet about how 
little the disease pattern of modern society is influenced.
Even as larger parts  of our cromosomes are being "mapped", it will not 
make big difference, ever.
The increase in life expectancy is small now and will not become bigger.
Even the  improvement of livestock is mostly done by traditonal methods, 
and the entertaining insights given by Darwin, Mendel etc had made little 
difference.

About psychosomatic disease and medical diagnosis: 

"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease 
than what sort of a disease a patient has""William Osler
"Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female 
nature. It's the big female weapon, and the test of a man is his ability 
to cope with it.""Tennessee Williams
"Det er ikke hovedsagen (s� underligt er det med mennesket), at et s�r 
l�ges, men at det holdes rent!  Et �bent s�r er en stadig begivenhed. 
""Vilhelm Ekelund
"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire  within itself, 
may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual 
part.""Hawthorne (1804-1864) American Novelist and Short Story Writer 
"An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.""Yiddish proverbs
"Biting nails is still the most preferred form of suicide in this 
country.""Benny Andersen
"If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.""Ben Jonson
"It is love that causes the neuroticism of the day.  It is love  that is 
the prime cause of tuberuculosis�A ghastly disease, love.""DH Lawrence
"PanikkenEr v�rre end pesten""
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"En sund sj�l i et sundt legeme. ""Juvenal
"Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another 
is the stage of the disease at which he lives.""George Bernard Shaw
"Det tungeste slaveri er at v�re slave af sig selv. ""Seneca
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.""Bible proverbs.
"Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand 
miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.""Coleridge (1772-
1834)English Poet, Critic, and Philosopher 
"Sandhed er indre harmoni.""Walther Rathenau
"A high percentage of persons over sixty commit suicide.""Newsweek 
Magazine
"As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only 
one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work""Charles Baudelaire.
"Sygdom er hver mands herre.""Danske Ordsprog
"Sygdom er ingen hindring; tv�rtimod, den g�r mennesket til 
t�nker.""Platon
"When a man is ill, his very goodness is sickly.""Nietzsche
"When you win, nothing hurts.""Joe Namath
"Neurotic subjects are perhaps less addicted than any, despite the 
timehonoured phrase, to 'listening to their insides': they can hear so 
many things going on inside themselves, by which they realize later that 
they did wrong to let themselves be alarmed, that they end by paying no 
attention to any of them""Marcel Proust
"Et fredfyldt, rent og forfinet liv f�rer til en rolig og uforstyrret 
alderdom.""
"Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts 
Life itself remains a very effective therapist."" Karen Horney
"We are more sensible of one little touch of a surgeon's lancet than of 
twenty wounds with a sword in the heat of fight. ""Montaigne
"Sj�lsstyrke og -svaghed er gale udtryk; de er i virkeligheden kun den 
gode eller slette tilstand hos legemets organer. ""La Rochefoucauld
"The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest 
would gladly part with all their money for health.""Charles   Colton 
(1780-1832) English Sportsman and Writer
"Kristendommen beh�ver sygdom, n�sten i samme grad som den gr�ske kultur 
beh�ver et overskud af sundhed - at g�re syg er den egentlige, 
bagvedliggende hensigt med hele kirkens frelse - procedure - 
system.""Nietzsche
"The diseases of the mind are more destructive than those of the 
body.""Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The sick woman opressing, tyrannising especially;no one surpasses her in 
refinements for ruling,""Nietzsch e
"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it 
just as they die of any other disease. ""Oscar Wilde
"Det sker ofte, at et menneske har mere menneskelige forbindelser med en 
kat eller en hund end med noget menneskeligt v�sen""Henry David Thoreau
"Every invalid is a physician.""
"Hjertet har sine grunde, som forstanden ikke kender til.""Blaise Pasca 
"It seems that without exception the experience and behaviour that gets 
labelled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in 
order to live in an unlivable situation.""
"Lystighed er good mod sygdom.""Danske Ordsprog
"Man ved mere, end man t�nker. Man t�nker mere, end man ved. Man ved 
mindre, end man aner.""Wolfdietrich Schnurff
"Show him death, and he'll be content with fever.""Persian Proverb
"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get 
interested in someone else's.""Goodman Ace
"Tiden l�ger alle s�r.""Danske ordsprog
"Vi ved intent om motivation Alt hvad vi kan g�re er at skrive b�ger om 
den."" Peter Drucker
"Man b�r beherske sin sk�bne som sit helbred: nyde det gode, v�re 
t�lmodig med et d�rlige og ikke anvende st�rke l�gemidler uden i yderste 
n�dstilf�lde. ""La Rochefoucauld
"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist 
of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of 
life, which must be understood before they may be guided.""Paracelsus 
(1493-1541)Swiss Medical Philosopher 
"Every time doctors cure a disease, they produce ten new ones, by 
creating a virus, that is thousand times more dangerous than any microbe: 
the ideas that you are sick"."Marcel Proust
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.""Ed Howe
"De tabte forbindelser: individualitet, mening og lokalsamfund - 
Helbredelsen kommer fra l�gekunsten og l�gekunsten  udspringer af 
n�stek�rlighed. Alts� er det ikke troens v�rk at man helbredes, men 
medf�lelsens. L�gekunstens sande grundvold er k�rlighed""PARACELSUS
"Placebos magt: tro, forventninger og selvopfyldende  profetier Da jeg 
spurgte dr. Albert Schweitzer, hvordan han ville forklare det faktum, at 
nogen overhovedet med rimelighed kunne forvente at bliverask efter at 
v�re blevet behandlet af en heksedoktor, svarede han,at det, jeg bad ham 
om, var at r�be en hemmelighed, som l�ger havde b�ret p� lige siden 
Hippocrates' dage. "Men jeg skal alligevel fort�lle Dem det," sagde han, 
mens hans ansigt oplystes af et sk�vt smil: "Heksedoktoren klarer det af 
samme grund, som vi alle klarer det. Enhver patient g�r rundt med sin 
egen doktor indeni. N�r de kommer til os, er det fordi de ikke kender den 
sandhed. De bedste resultater opn�r vi, n�r vi giver den l�ge, der bor i 
enhver patient, en chance for at gribe ind." lacebo er den l�ge, der bor 
inden i os.""Norman Cousins
"Vor fornuft g�r os undertiden lige s� ulykkelige som vore lidenskaber; 
og man kan sige om mennesket i et s�dant tilf�lde, at det et er syg, det 
bliver forgiftet af sin l�ge. ""S�bastian Chamfort
"Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes 
and wanes.""Otto Friedrich
"Hvad V�gt ligger der p�, om L�gen selv tror p� de Midler han 
foreskriver, n�r den Lidende har Tillid til dem og til ham, og virkelig 
bedres igjennem sin Tro? Hvorfor ikke gj�re Mennesker lykkeligere gjennem 
en Illusion""Edvard Brandes
"Living-would that mean to continually eliminate from ourselves what is 
about to die; to be cruel to all that becomes weak and old; to be without 
pity toward the wretched?"Nietzsche 
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"En gunstig fejldiagnose har altid v�ret mere virksom end den bedste 
medicin.""Markus M. Ronner
"Han var s� l�rd, at han kunne sige hat p� ni sprogg,men s� uvidende, at 
han k�bte en ko til at ride p�.""Benjamin Franklin
"Hvis man som syg hjemme havde det lige s� uroligt som p� et hospital, 
ville l�gen sige: "Dette her g�r ikke, De m� indl�gges!"""K.K. Steincke
"Jeg d�r med hj�lp af for mange l�ger.""Alexander den Store
"L�gerne har den lykke, at solen skinner over deres helbredelser og deres 
fejl skjules af tre favne jord,""Sokrates
"L�gerne vil i den kommende verden blive gjort ansvarlig for flere liv 
end selv vi generaler""Napoleon
"Mange kokke forsalte suppen, og mangge l�ger f�rer snart til 
graven.""Danske Ordsprog
"My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of 
doctors in general""Mignon McLaughlin
"N�sten enhver l�ge har sin yndlinggssygdom.""Henry Fielding
"N�r l�gerne ikke kan helbrede en sygdom, giver de den i hvert fald et 
smukt navn""Voltaire
"Operationen gik godt - men patienten d�de.""Anonym
"Sandheden g�r ikke s� megen Gavn i Verden, som dens Skin g�r 
Skade.""Arthur Christensen
"Statistik er en stor l�gn, der best�r af lutter sm� sandheder.""Lionel 
Strachey
"Statistik kan ikke erstatte d�mmekraft. patient while nature cures the 
disease.  (On the other hand, if there was no such thing as tennis, 
cardiologists would have had to invent it.)""Voltaire
"Vist er det rigtigt, at alkohol aldrig har helbredt en mand hans 
fork�lelse, men det har en l�ge heller aldrig for.""Winston Churchill
"Den der hj�lper hurtigt, hj�lper dobbelt.""
"Hvilken velgerning og hvilken n�dvendighed for menneskeheden l�gnen er - 
det ved kun l�gerne og kvinderne""Anatole France
"Hvis en l�ge helbreder, ser solen det,hvis han dr�ber, skjuler jorden 
det.""James Kelly
"One of the things the average doctor doesn't have time to do is catch up 
vith the thigs he didn't learn in school and one of the things he didn't 
learn in school is the nature of human society, its purpose, its history, 
and its needs... If  medicine is necessarily a mystery to the average 
man, nearly everything else is necessarily a mystery to the average 
doctor.""Milton Mayer
"Pain is unjust, and all the arguments that can not soothe it only rouse 
suspicion. ""Racine
"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the 
medical profession""George Bernard Shaw
"You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasnn't taken in by superstitions like 
science and medicine.""George Bernard Shaw
"As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician 
will be made fun of, but he will be paid. ""La Bruy�re
"God heals and the doctor takes the fees.  ""Benjamin Franklin.
"Da vi har gjort l�gerne til k�bm�nd, tvinger vi dem ti at l�re 
handelsknebene.""George Bernard Shaw
"De fleste af mine patienter begynder med at fort�lle mig, n�jagtig hvad 
de fejler, og hvad jeg skal g�re ved det""Thomas Stearns Eliot
"Dend sidste kuur for sygdommen er d�den.""Danske Ordsprog
"Der gives forskellige Slags Videbeg�rlighed, en Slags, der skyldes 
Interesse, og som f�r os til at �nske at l�re noget, der kan v�re til 
Nytte, og en anden Slags, der skyldes Hovmod, og som stammer fra �nsket 
om at vide noget, som de andre ikke ved""La Rochefoucauld
"Do not put your faith in statistics say until you have carefully 
considered what they do not say.""William W. Watt
"En dokter og en bonde vide mere end en dokter aldene.""Danske Ordsprog
"En god l�ge redder, om ikke altid fra sygdommen, s� dog fra en d�rlig 
l�ge""Jean Paul
"Engang da Einstein, relativitetsteoriens fader, skulle rejse fra 
Princetown til New York, spurgte han togf�reren Standser New York ved 
dette tog""Johannes Hohlenberg
"Enhver l�ge og enhver politiker har sin yndlingsdiagnose.""Benjamin 
Disraeli
"Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.""Henry Fielding
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.""William W. 
Watt
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you 
please.""
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is 
the greatest innovator.""Francis Bacon
"Hvis vise M�nd ikke tog fejl, m�tte Narrene fortvivle.""Goethe
"Hvor fornuften sparker troen ud, smutter overtroen ind ad 
bagd�ren.""Ingeborg Buhl
"Intelligens er den �ndelige egenskab, takket v�re hvilken vi omsider 
begriber, at alt er ubegribeligt.""Emile Picard
"Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?""Stanislaw J. Lec
"Jeg har opgivet l�geprofessionen, fordi jeg - selv om det kan lyde 
kynisk - ville have en profession, i hvilken man skulle t�nke sig mere 
om""Esther Vilar
"De syge har vi f�et, for at vi kan l�re ydmyghed og 
k�rlighed.""Bodelschwing
"Det er let at g�re sig lystig over l�gekunsten, s� l�nge man er 
rask.""Moliere
"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.""Benjamin Franklin
"Gud helbreder, og l�gen indkasserer honoraret.""Benjamin Franklin
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and 
diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, 
or in some contrivance to raise prices.""Adam Smith
"Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American 
disease.""RoulTurle y
"Den enkelte l�ge er meget anst�ndig l�gestanden som kollektiv er meget 
uanst�ndig""Konrad Lorenz
"Den l�ge, der taler neds�ttende om sine kolleger, deklasser sig selv og 
sin kunst.""Christoph W. Hufeland
"Naturen gj�r det beste, men l�gen tager l�nnen.""Danske Ordsprog
"Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguisefrom 
the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.""George Bernard 
Shaw