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Justin Nussbaum

Justin Nussbaum

Dr. Justin Nussbaum is a Department Chair and Professor of Biology at Lakeland Community College in Ohio, specializing in neuroscience and behavioral genetics.

Jul 21, 2026

19:19
So when you even have some of the top experts in the world ignore the genetic component, I think it does a lot of damage to survivors.
19:27
I agree, and I think, like, this is-- it all gets very contentious, but I, uh, I find it fascinating.
19:34
So if, um, there are, there are a handful of wonderful books on this.
19:37
Um, the, the history of medicine is filled with examples of doctors, physicians being very, very confident that they know what treatments work, what don't, what causes this, what doesn't.
19:49
And in the, the 20th century, so throughout the mid 1900s when clinical science, clinical trials, actually doing experiments and using controls and placebos came about, a very, very large number of people were proved very, very wrong [chuckles] because the hard truth is, if you follow your intuition, psychologists, if anyone, should know that humans are just-- we are pattern-seeking creatures.
20:13
We want to explain things.
20:14
And so when you see an outcome and you think you see a pattern, it is so easy to say, "This must be causing that." And there is just a never-ending list of false correlations, correlations that are not causation.
23:29
What traits do you think tend to be more stable over time?

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