Carl Sagan's Warning 25 years ago

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[–]Vrepit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

eugenics, which was later proven to be unscientific.

What is "Selective Breeding"? Why is it extensively used in animal husbandry and in agriculture?

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https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-019-0109-y

“Race” is far more than ancestral/inherited DNA and is far more than geographically patterned morphological variation like skin color. But because the analogy between races and dog breeds incorrectly privileges biology over the social and historical factors that have led to the development of racial constructs, ...genetic data fails to substantiate the racial categorizations used in the U.S. today and their equivalence to dog breeds.

[–]Vrepit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You poor dear. Did you actually read the article? It essentially said that humans are more complex than dogs, therefore breeds/race/ethnicity is a social construct. They leaned heavily on nurture as opposed to nature to further obfuscate their forgone conclusion. Their politically motivated cobbled together conclusion did not proffer any detailed studies of selectively breeding homosapiens and they made it clear that it was a desperate attempt to discredit some scary racist boogeyman hiding in the closet.

What is Genetic Engineering of Humans and why would these 'authors' claim that it would not work?

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You've obviously not understood the essay. Again:

the analogy between races and dog breeds incorrectly privileges biology over the social and historical factors that have led to the development of racial constructs, ...genetic data fails to substantiate the racial categorizations used in the U.S. today and their equivalence to dog breeds.

[–]Vrepit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, little padwan. Race and ethnicity is a scientific/biological construct, anything else is an imaginative abstraction. There are proven genetic "clusters" with common traits, including physical and psychological similarities/propensities. This concludes that either through intentional reproductive strategy (eugenics) or genetic engineering, that this will enhance and bring these common traits to dominant expression. Why are you anti-science?

For example my little simpleton friend: If a group of people with a genetic proclivity for being a.) tall b.) musically gifted c.) tendency for obsessive compulsive disorder are intentionally preferred and then promoted via reproduction through 3-ish + generations, then their offspring will exhibit a greater than 50+ % tendency toward dominant expression of these 3 traits. You know this. Don't be so fking stupid and don't play me or anyone else for being as stupid as you're feigning to be.

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OK - silly billy - I think we're done