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Smartness Is False And Oppresive: Zeus–Update
Aristophanes was right. He said, "Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you." In other words, no need to be smart and think when…
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Global Warming To Cause New Crisis. What Will It Be?
Seems the Arctic ice sheet has refused to do what it was told by computer models. The models "conservatively" insisted the ice would be gone entirely by 2013, yet the…
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Are There Any Arguments Against Eugenics Left?
Most, or even all, progressives say they are against eugenics. Yet most, or all, progressives were against the recent Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act which would have outlawed sex-selective abortions in these…
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Support For Abortion by Reason: Mother’s Health Tops List: Attitudes Are Inconsistent
From the General Social Survey, a picture of the support for abortion by reason from 1972 until 20061. GSS questions on abortions are asked of about 1,000 (order of magnitude)…
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Sex Selection And In Vitro Fertilization
I'm always on the lookout for remunerative ways to spend my time. There yesterday on the American Statistical Association jobs site was a situation for a Medical Statistician, which is…
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The Dismal Removing Freedoms Saves Money Argument
Here is an example of an argument which you will hear with increasing frequency. A month or so ago on the Fox News Special Report panel the participants were discussing…
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Genetic Engineering To Create New Super Moral Race: Savulescu Strikes Again
On the road, so here is a classic post from not too long ago. The appalling Julian Savulescu1 is back, this time staining the pages of the British edition of…
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We Are All Eugenicists Now: New Test Identifies 3,500 Genetic “Faults” In Fetuses — Update
See the crucial update below. I was assured, several times, that my second son was to be my first daughter. The doctors who told me this had performed certain tests,…
