kellyramsey + eugenics   35

Animals > People: An HSUS Legal Fantasy (Berman & Company @ HumaneWatch)
" In a paper titled “Procreation, Harm, and the Constitution,” published in the Northwestern University Law Review, Carter Dillard argues that there is (or should be) a constitutional limit on an American’s right to have kids if—wait for it—the kid’s life won’t be “worth living” "
animal-rights  eugenics 
september 2010 by kellyramsey
Too Soon to Write the “History” of Eugenics? (Helen M. Alvaré @ Culture of Life Foundation)
deployment of the "eugenics" frame (loosely) toward a mostly-secular anti-abortion argument
abortion  eugenics  bioethics 
september 2009 by kellyramsey
Towards a coercive utopia (Bill Muehlenberg @ Mercator.net)
Savulescu: "But we should embrace the selection of such non-disease traits, if they contribute to a child having better chance of a better life."
religion  eugenics 
november 2008 by kellyramsey
Neo-con logic: Designer babies for all (Marcy Darnovsky, Center for Genetics and Society)
Frum: "It is probable that the trend to inequality will grow even stronger in the years ahead, if new genetic techniques offer those with sufficient resources the possibility of enhancing the intelligence, health, beauty and strength of children in the womb. How should conservatives respond to such new technologies? The anti-abortion instincts of many conservatives naturally incline them to look at such techniques with suspicion — and indeed it is certainly easy to imagine how they might be abused. Yet in an important address delivered as long ago as 1983, Pope John Paul II argued that genetic enhancement was permissible — indeed, laudable — even from a Catholic point of view, as long as it met certain basic moral rules. Among those rules: that these therapies be available to all. Ensuring equality of care may become inseparable from ensuring equality of opportunity."
transhumanism  eugenics 
september 2008 by kellyramsey
Eugenics Watch: I, For One, Welcome Our New Genetic Overlords (Cheryl Miller @ The New Atlantis)
Dondorp: "In pre-test counselling it should be explained that if no non-affected embryos are available, the only options are trying a new cycle or being advised to reconsider one's reproductive plans"
eugenics  IVF 
july 2008 by kellyramsey
Michael Medved Mismeasures Man: The Myth of an American Gene (Mike O'Risal @ Hyphoid Logic)
"unless... those who possess it can somehow recognize one another, find that trait attractive and be more likely to partner and produce offspring who themselves survive to reproductive maturity, this whole argument quickly becomes meaningless."
eugenics  pseudoscience  cranks  DNR  race-ethnicity 
june 2008 by kellyramsey
Cosmotheism: Our Destiny Is Godhood
"The Rune of Life ties together for us the past and the future of our people. And it signifies our radical and implacable opposition to the contraveners of the Creators Purpose and the enemies of our people."
eugenics  religion  transhumanism  race-supremacists 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
The Temple of Prometheus: Prometheism, Prometheans and Prometheanism
"it became clear that the people of the world needed a new religion, one not founded in myth, egalitarianism and superstition, but instead, fact, science, reason, objectivism, spirituality and empiricism."
cranks  eugenics  transhumanism  religion 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Millennium
"This website serves as an online presence for the religion of Millennium, which was founded in 2001 AD by Sherman Hawk. ... Because intelligence is important in applying the Method, Seekers support eugenics as a means of improving human intelligence."
cranks  eugenics  religion  gaaaah 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
The NeoEugenics' Web Site: breeding brighter humans through purposely directed evolution.
The link to one article pretty much says it all: "An interview on my eugenic perspective published in Resistance magazine, Summer, 2005."
cranks  eugenics  race-supremacists 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
MajorityRights.com: A site for the discussion of issues affecting Western societies
"This website discusses various issues related to the preservation of Western culture and the ethnic genetic interests (EGI) of people of European ancestry." Severe doses of the crazy from "Constantin von Hoffmeister" et al.
cranks  eugenics  race-supremacists 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Future Generations
links to monographs by Charles Murray, Daniel Seligman, Richard Lynn, J. Philippe Rushton, the Occidental Quarterly web site, etc.
cranks  eugenics  race-supremacists 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Eugenics Watch
"since they are professors, journalists, economists, gynecologists, psychiatrists and sociologists and since they have been left in place, they have continued to mold society. ... their goal is the destruction of democracy and the creation of an elite."
cranks  eugenics 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Statistical Provocation (the nonist)
"In any case having come across the mother load of visual material that is The Eugenics Archive I thought I’d draw your attention to just a few representative items in their collection for your offense, amusement, repulsion and engagement"
eugenics 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Future Human Evolution
"The Most Widely Read Book On Eugenics Ever Written"... "Eugenics, which can be thought of as human ecology, is thus part and parcel of the environmental movement."
cranks  eugenics 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
OneLife: A Relationship Between Evolution, Genetics, Morality, Ethics, Psychology, Education, and Culture
"Make copies for your friends. Extract what you want. Email it to anyone. At about 2mb it doesn't take much room. Have it available without need for the internet. Stick it in a keychain thumb memory and have it always available for study or discussion."
cranks  eugenics  gaaaah 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
"“I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life researching how much genetic variability there is between populations,” said Dr. Altshuler... it is so clear that the economic and social and educational differences have so much more influence than genes.""
cult-of-intelligence  overconfident-amateurism  eugenics  race-ethnicity 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Runnin' Scared: Hate Funder, Dog Lover Quietly Dies (Maria Luisa Tucker, Village Voice)
"the Pioneer Fund may be slowly losing its hard-fought place in New York. Its Lexington Avenue address is a bit of a hoax—the "Suite 211" on Pioneer Fund Paperwork is actually "Box 211" at a Mail Boxes, Etc."
eugenics 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Flew's Eugenic Leanings (John Lynch @ Stranger Fruit)
"[Intelligent design promoter] Flew manages to write a three column entry on eugenics without actually offering any opinion except to diss the work of a distinguished historian of science and replace it with the work of a eugenicist psychologist."
creationism  eugenics 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Racism, science, politics, and James Watson (William Saletan @ Slate)
"No, the reason I don't want to let Watson go quietly is that he didn't really clean up his original comments. ... His revisions... Scientifically, they say nothing and retract nothing. All they do is make racism harder to identify, scrutinize, and test."
cult-of-intelligence  eugenics  pseudoscience  race-ethnicity 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
g, a Statistical Myth (Cosma Shalizi)
"factor analysis can give the appearance of a general factor when there are actually many thousands of completely independent and equally strong causes at work. Heritability doesn't distinguish these alternatives either."
cult-of-intelligence  eugenics  race-ethnicity 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
A shameful history (Johnjoe McFadden @ Guardian)
"Popular support for eugenics among the...intelligentsia had very little to do with its dubious scientific credentials. Its wellsprings were linked to middle- and upper-class anxiety concerning burgeoning populations of the poor and waves of immigration."
eugenics  pseudoscience  race-ethnicity 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
The Eugenics Temptation (Michael Gerson @ Washington Post)
"But progressives, at their best, have a special concern for the different, the struggling and the weak. When it comes to eugenics, they face not only a tension but a choice -- and they should choose human equality over the pursuit of human perfection."
bioethics  eugenics 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
DNA pioneer's lecture cancelled after comments on race (AP)
"In 2000 Watson shocked an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, when he advanced his theory about a link between skin colour and sex drive. ... "That's why you have Latin lovers," he said, according to people who attended the lecture."
pseudoscience  overconfident-amateurism  DNR  race-ethnicity  cult-of-intelligence  eugenics 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims (Helen Nugent, Times)
"[Watson] said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”."
pseudoscience  overconfident-amateurism  DNR  race-ethnicity  cult-of-intelligence  eugenics 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
There are no marching morons (PZ Myers @ Pharyngula)
"Genes flow fluidly - if you sneer at the underclass and think your line is superior, I suspect you won't have to go back very many generations to find your stock comes out of that same seething mob."
eugenics 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Haunting Echoes of Eugenics (Andrew J. Imparato and Anne C. Sommers, Washington Post)
"Though society may be inclined to regard Holmes's detestable opinion in Buck v. Bell as a relic of a time past, eerie similarities exist in contemporary remarks of the well-respected."
eugenics 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist (Andrea Bottaro, The Panda's Thumb)
"Thus, on the eve of the Apollo moon landing, the Secretary of the preeminent Creationist organization in the US was denouncing the teaching of evolution as immoral, but thought sterilization on the “feeble-minded” was A-OK."
eugenics  creationism 
may 2007 by kellyramsey
Racism Resurgent: [1995 Jan/Feb] (Jim Naureckas, FAIR Extra!)
"Nearly all the research that Murray & Herrnstein relied on for their central claims... was funded by the Pioneer Fund, [whose] mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy... that "genetically unfit" individuals or races are a threat to society."
eugenics 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Review of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve [1995] David Lethbridge @ People's Voice)
"Many of the scientists referred to by Herrnstein as authorities have been connected to a journal called Mankind Quarterly. The founder and editor of this journal, Robert Gayre, was a champion of apartheid and has stated... that blacks are worthless."
eugenics 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Education [1971 excerpt] (Richard Herrnstein @ The Atlantic)
The old new old eugenics: "By removing arbitrary barriers between classes, society has encouraged the creation of biological barriers."
eugenics 
october 2006 by kellyramsey

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