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With the development of the genomic knowledge, we know more and more about gene related disease. Except single gene disease, which means you have 100% chance to get the disease if you had the gene, most diseases are multi-genes correlated, such as diabetes, colon cancer. There are already biocompanies helping you to exam your genes to see if you are at risk for any genetic disease…..so, do you want to know if you are at risk or not?

I don’t have the gene, then I will not care about my life style…these people may increased their risks…I have the gene, I am depressed in the beginning, then I change my life style, I may get better chance to escape the disease, but with the painful constrain on eating, drinking, working…life could be changed, everyone want to get their idea life, health is only one of them, maybe it’s not everyone’s choice….

I am curious, so I want to know what’s in this Pandora’s box… 

在加拿大听到四川大地震的消息，甚是震惊；几万生命在瞬间消失，如此灾难让人悲痛不已。我们回来时，波士顿的募捐活动已经全面展开，与家里通过电话也说国内全国都在关心帮助灾民。我们只能在此尽一点微薄之力，表达我们的一点爱心。。。唱一句“死去何所道，托体同山阿”。。。

国家地理杂志报道此次大地震在一年前的一篇学术论文中已经被准确预测，让人想起二十多年前的唐山大地震也被预测到的故事，不禁唏嘘。。。科学已然发展到可以帮助人类防灾的地步，但是人类自身的进化却还停留在几千年前。。。

We spent 7 days in Canada, waiting for the visa issued…not so bad as expected, we got the visa at last on Friday afternoon, end the check-in, check-out games in hotels…of course we also enjoyed the spring in Montreal and Ottawa, interesting cultural and political cities…what did I remember is many histories and maple trees…also Vitnam noodles and Chinese porridge….

流浪汉，蹒跚
呕吐着寒气
圈出一串串咖啡香来

教授，缓慢
咀嚼着术语
荡出一波波掌声来 

父亲，尴尬
吞咽着威严
冻出一片片喧嚣来 

我， 讷讷
抚摸着魂魄
飘出一滴滴悲哀来

I heard the recent news from China and Austria on clinical trials with moral stains. It seems both cases broke the Belmont Principles at least for "respect for persons" .  In this principle, the researcher should tell the patients in simple words to let them know what’s going to be done to them regarding their treatments, and the patients have absolute right to decide to attend the treatments or not, and the doctors or researchers cannot cover any information to the patients, so called "Inform Consent".

Science is a double-face sword, could be evil without human moral control, so a scientist should always be retrospective about their research to excluse any inhuman events.

"Selfish punishers can invade the population when rare but then limit each other, preventing the altruists from being completely eliminated.Individuals who behave altruistically are vulnerable to exploitation by more selfish individuals within their own group, but groups of altruists can robustly out-compete more selfish groups. Altruism can therefore evolve by natural selection as long as its collective advantage outweighs its more local disadvantage."

"Altruists ‘pay’ the selfish punishers by allowing themselves to be exploited, while the selfish punishers return the favor with their second-order altruism. “That way, no one needs to pay the double cost required of an altruist who also punishes others,” says Eldakar. “If so, then the best groups might be those that include a few devils along with the angels.” "

——————from  Science daily

想起小时候，小学里的班长虽然没有人喜欢，我们称他为“奸懒馋猾坏”五毒俱全，但是老师还是喜欢他做班长，大概就是这个原因。 一个集体对外竞争既需要好人，也需要坏蛋。 一个国家既需要忠臣也许要奸臣；这种组合是因也是果。经济学家认为是减少损耗的双赢。