Probing Equality and Similarity

Equality is fine as a political or a spiritual concept but not so hot as a scientific generality. We look pretty much alike but it is likely that the new protein synthesizers will reveal a lot of subsets, then more sets within sets, as time goes by. This makes scientific generalities so difficult.

Take drug reactions. 5.4% of the population is sensitive to sulfa drugs, that is they will react to sulfa as an allergen with varying degrees of severity depending upon the relationship in their blood between the various constituents of reaction. But there is an interesting subset of people from malarial geographies that have developed a genetically different structure of their blood, called G6PD, that makes them less likely to be infected by malaria, so that genetic advantage is handed down. That advantage, when exposed to sulfa, becomes a disadvantage and the blood cell breaks down, causing hemolytic anemia. This advantage-turned-defect is present in 10% of black American males.
So this specialized sub-set has vastly different results.

Imagine such sub-sets throughout our diverse species in countless ways.

Makes you wonder about the placebo.