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 Adam & Responsibility
Why Adam would be more credible if he was honest about his role in the creation of Geomex mutants
“When Genomex was conceived, we saw ourselves as pioneers in a new frontier of knowledge, men and women with the power to remake the world, the power to play God with the genetic code. All of us at Genomex feel enormous guilt at the harm we have caused in manipulating DNA against the laws of nature.”
~Paul Breedlove
Paul Breedlove required decades to realize creation of the Genomex mutants was a mistake. Understanding the error he had made, Breedlove made no attempt to deny his part in the program or to avoid responsibility.
Breedlove’s protégé and chosen successor Adam has never been so honest or honorable.
Adam’s denial of responsibility by making the claim of being unaware of the application of his research is absurd. Researchers at Adam’s level are not pushed off into a corner and left to work alone, cranking out summaries of their labors, but never being told what becomes of them. People actively involved in research work in groups with formal and informal discussion of their work in the lab and over lunch. Everyone has a good idea what everyone else is doing. Ideas are exchanged. Suggestions are made.
In a typical group, Adam would be deeply involved in th planning and execution of research from the time he began in 1978 until he left twenty years later. He would not only know about he technical work, but about how money was budgeted, an indication of how important particular lines of research were considered.
Adam knew. Adam knew everything, from the beginning.
The creation of Genomex mutants was fraught with problems from the start, beginning with Gabriel Ashlocke in 1968, and continuing with the creation of stealth mutants like Danielle Hartman circa 1972. Individuals such as these, with significant physical and mental problems, indicated the deep flaws in the Genomex program.
However, Breedlove and Adam kept making more mutants, in greater numbers after Adam’s arrival at Genomex based upon the relatively young age of the mutants we see. Each was as flawed and doomed to eventual immunological breakdown and an early death. In the world of real science, the stratagem of repeating the same work over and over yielding failure after failure is considered worthless and witless.
Most of the Genomex mutants we’ve seen appear well over 25 years of age, meaning they were created prior to 1982. Adam’s attempts to shift blame to Mason Eckhart is absurd considering that Eckhart was only 20 in 1982, and mostly likely had not yet graduated from West Point. The absurdity deepens when one considers that Eckhart is not trained in the sciences; his specialty is military law.
Adam also attempts to spread the blame around to unnamed associates, claiming that he was only one of many researchers. This claim falls apart when one learns Breedlove had chosen Adam as his successor.
Just what is Adam doing to mutants physically? In continuing to tamper with them, isn’t he actively still carrying on his research? We have only Adam’s word that he is doing no harm, but even Adam admits that he is unsure what will happen next to the health of mutants.
What was Adam doing in the 9 years between leaving Genomex and recruiting Mutant X? Did he field other teams, now gone? Why has he been less than honest with Mutant X, about the invention of the subdermal governors and stasis pods? What happens to people in the underground? We never hear from them again.
The portrait of Adam that emerges is far from flattering. He dodges responsibility, heaps insult upon the undeserving, and indulges heavily in the Lie of Omission. Even now, it is unclear whether he ever had the best interests of mutants as his chief motivation.
Dark Mirage
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