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Comment author: drethelin 07 January 2014 08:29:18PM 1 point [-]

I think it's less a curiosity stopper and more a controversy stopper? The idea being that if there's an environmental cause of something bad AND a genetic cause, we can more easily and with less controversy start with addressing the environmental cause and still do a lot of good.