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kickysnana

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1. According to a recent (2013) Discover Magazine article it is possible
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 02:59 AM
Jun 2013

Trauma expresses in the alleles attached to genes hat get handed down to offspring and do some directing of behavior even in the original victim. One part of the testing involved switching the pups of the mothers.

These alleles were chemically removed from traumatized mice, at least their offspring erasing fear and over-hightened responses. I cannot find the article tonight.

Here is one study that led to the one recently published.

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/061#.UcqOGti0RAU

This also would mean that the trauma inflicted by our governments policies and out of control intelligence agencies is genetically affecting our descendants (children) in a negative way for generations. Shock Doctrine, no-tolerance-no brains in schools, etc, etc. (We can bet that this research will shortly be defunded and smeared.)

(Also dear foreign policy leaders see "blow back&quot America should nominate itself for the Darwin award.

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