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In reply to the discussion: How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]bananas
(27,509 posts)32. Modern eugenics, genetic engineering, and ethical re-evaluation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Modern_eugenics.2C_genetic_engineering.2C_and_ethical_re-evaluation
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Modern eugenics, genetic engineering, and ethical re-evaluation
Beginning in the 1980s, the history and concept of eugenics were widely discussed as knowledge about genetics advanced significantly, making practical genetic engineering, which has been widely used to produce genetically modified organisms, with genetically modified foods being most visible to the general public. Endeavors such as the Human Genome Project made the effective modification of the human species seem possible again (as did Darwin's initial theory of evolution in the 1860s, along with the rediscovery of Mendel's laws in the early 20th century). The difference at the beginning of the 21st century was the guarded attitude towards eugenics, which had become a watchword to be feared rather than embraced.[citation needed] Article 23 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities prohibits compulsory sterilization of disabled individuals and guarantees their right to adopt children.
A few scientific researchers such as psychologist Richard Lynn, psychologist Raymond Cattell, and scientist Gregory Stock have openly called for eugenic policies using modern technology, but they represent a minority opinion in current scientific and cultural circles.[174] One attempted implementation of a form of eugenics was a "genius sperm bank" (198099) created by Robert Klark Graham, from which nearly 230 children were conceived (the best-known donors were Nobel Prize winners William Shockley and J.D.Watson). After Graham passed away in 1997 funding ran out, and within two years his sperm bank had closed.[175] In the U.S. and Europe, though, these attempts have frequently been criticized as in the same spirit of classist and racist forms of eugenics of the 1930s.[citation needed] Because of its association with compulsory sterilization and the racial ideals of the Nazi Party, the word eugenics is rarely used by the advocates of such programs.[citation needed]
The Bell Curve argued that immigration from countries with low national IQ is undesirable. According to Raymond Cattell, "when a country is opening its doors to immigration from diverse countries, it is like a farmer who buys his seeds from different sources by the sack, with sacks of different average quality of contents".[176]
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Modern eugenics, genetic engineering, and ethical re-evaluation
Beginning in the 1980s, the history and concept of eugenics were widely discussed as knowledge about genetics advanced significantly, making practical genetic engineering, which has been widely used to produce genetically modified organisms, with genetically modified foods being most visible to the general public. Endeavors such as the Human Genome Project made the effective modification of the human species seem possible again (as did Darwin's initial theory of evolution in the 1860s, along with the rediscovery of Mendel's laws in the early 20th century). The difference at the beginning of the 21st century was the guarded attitude towards eugenics, which had become a watchword to be feared rather than embraced.[citation needed] Article 23 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities prohibits compulsory sterilization of disabled individuals and guarantees their right to adopt children.
A few scientific researchers such as psychologist Richard Lynn, psychologist Raymond Cattell, and scientist Gregory Stock have openly called for eugenic policies using modern technology, but they represent a minority opinion in current scientific and cultural circles.[174] One attempted implementation of a form of eugenics was a "genius sperm bank" (198099) created by Robert Klark Graham, from which nearly 230 children were conceived (the best-known donors were Nobel Prize winners William Shockley and J.D.Watson). After Graham passed away in 1997 funding ran out, and within two years his sperm bank had closed.[175] In the U.S. and Europe, though, these attempts have frequently been criticized as in the same spirit of classist and racist forms of eugenics of the 1930s.[citation needed] Because of its association with compulsory sterilization and the racial ideals of the Nazi Party, the word eugenics is rarely used by the advocates of such programs.[citation needed]
The Bell Curve argued that immigration from countries with low national IQ is undesirable. According to Raymond Cattell, "when a country is opening its doors to immigration from diverse countries, it is like a farmer who buys his seeds from different sources by the sack, with sacks of different average quality of contents".[176]
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How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]
trotsky
Apr 2012
OP
You either didn't read or didn't understand your own "rebuttal". It makes my point perfectly!
dmallind
Apr 2012
#34
Thoroughgoing religious liberalism in no way enables fundamentalism.
E_Pluribus_Unitarian
Apr 2012
#20
That's a gigantic caveat you just tried to tack on innocuously at the end there!
trotsky
Apr 2012
#43
Of course, I never said they couldn't. So bully for the brilliant dispatch of that straw man.
trotsky
Apr 2012
#46
So given the fact that groups of freethinkers/skeptics/atheists and individuals gave their open
humblebum
Apr 2012
#58
I was not aware that the Constitution had any teeth outside of the Unites States, and
humblebum
Apr 2012
#61
Christianity has been reforming for two thousand years and continues to reform
Leontius
Apr 2012
#74
Making heavy use of helicopters painted in the color black, I'm sure.
2ndAmForComputers
Apr 2012
#76