Jon_C_memo_8


 * Peopling a Project **

Funding opportunities Increased scientific credibility || Epigenetics scientists || Lack of new research options Disappearance of funds Epigenetics not as influential on development as scientists believe || Money from new drugs || Drug company scientists || Drugs that have already been produced showing signs of extreme toxicity Lack of profits in research || New drugs are only helpful for certain types of cancer || Lack of research and research funding Lack of governmental support || "cleaning the genome" through epigenetic control || Eugenicists || Minute effects of epigenetics on the gene pool and reproductive ability || Overstatement of epigeneticists' claims [This definitely needs expanding] || Apathy ||
 * Catalysts || Types/Groups of People || Corrosions ||
 * Promise of epigenetics research
 * The production of new drugs
 * Concerns over regulation of environmental toxins || Regulatory bodies (FDA, NIH) || Lobbying of plastic companies reduces the strength of legislation ||
 * Hope for new treatment options || Cancer patients || Inavailability or inaccessibility of drugs due to their toxicity and teratogenicity ||
 * Hope for new treatment options || Elderly cancer patients || Extreme toxicity of drugs (already coming to bear on them)
 * Concerns over environmental toxins || Environmental toxicity activists || Counterproductive (for activists) lobbying by plastic companies
 * New ways of controlling the diet to promote well-being, longevity and health || Dieticians || Claims of the helpfulness of epigenetics are overstated by scientists and themselves ||
 * New methods of treatment and enhancement || Alternative medicine practicioners || Claims of the helpfulness of epigenetics are overstated by scientists and themselves ||
 * Better breeding through dietary control
 * The ability to ascribe culture to biological sources, and vice versa || Biological determinists || Resistance from other groups (who?)
 * Epigenetic research shows that maternal diet effects health later in life || Poverty activists || Overstating of epigeneticists' claims