Unless I was a Nobel Prize winner who could summon funding for my research with minimal to no interference from the funders, I wouldn’t like to be a researcher at this time. Although many scientists still claim to be objective (at least publicly), funders can and do directly or indirectly influence researchers. That’s simply human nature.
Even so, as the numbers of costly tests associated with diseases that have some genetic component in purebred dogs continues to grow (and seriously, is there any disease that doesn’t if we really think about it?), it seems like we need to get a more comprehensive view…
Especially when the result of a “positive” test is often reproductive death via spay or neuter. How long can we keep eliminating dogs from the purebred breeding population for an increasing array of reasons before we realize that the result won’t be a perfect dog?
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