Genetic Inequality and Inevitable Eugenics

[Da6s]

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14742737

Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience, and it will become public knowledge in 2010. The crisis has depressing health implications and alarming political ones. In a nutshell: the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, ethnicities and races.

In 2010, GWAS (genome wide association studies) fever will reach its peak. Dozens of papers will report specific genes associated with almost every imaginable trait—intelligence, personality, religiosity, sexuality, longevity, economic risk-taking, consumer preferences, leisure interests and political attitudes.

Is it Gattaca yet?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In 2010, geneticists will reveal that high intelligence is genetically linked to being a neurotic motherfucker. Insurance companies will deny insurance to  people they deem to have "high achievement potential" because they are at higher risk for melancholy and ill humors.

[Freeky]

Dang.

[Requia ☣]

Clearly there is no such thing as nurture.   

[Elder Iptuous]

Clearly there is no such thing as nurture.   

only if your parents were genetically predisposed to it. 

[Reginald Ret]

Clearly there is no such thing as nurture.   

In 2010, GWAS (genome wide association studies) fever will reach its peak. Dozens of papers will report specific genes associated with almost every imaginable trait—intelligence, personality, religiosity, sexuality, longevity, economic risk-taking, consumer preferences, leisure interests and political attitudes.

Does it say determining?
No?
How strange, that must mean the writer made an error.
Yes thats it, that must be it.
It couldn't possibly be that the scientists were good scientists, that would just be silly.

[Requia ☣]

I never said the scientists weren't good, just the idiot that wrote this article.

[Reginald Ret]

hmmm maybe i should read the actual article before opening my big mouth,
I have no idea if it is any good.


i mean


YOU STUPID SUCKMONGER! BOOOO!

[Kai]

  This is hilarious. Probably the same people trying this stuff are the ones who think you can imput a human genome into a computer and pop out a human simulation. Just fucking funny. 

[Cainad (dec.)]

But once we can simply tell people who and what they are based on their genes, it'll be so much easier than considering them as whole human beings. We need better ways of stuffing people into their boxes, and if we can do it right from birth it'll be much more efficient.

[Golden Applesauce]

Note that this article appeared in the Economist, as opposed to the "People Who Know Anything About A Subject Vaguely Related To Biology" journal.

I see a lot of very definite predictions being made in that article, especially in the area of what they expect to find.  If anything, genomic diversity between different ethnic groups has been wildly overestimated, not the other way around.

[Requia ☣]

Note that this article appeared in the Economist, as opposed to the "People Who Know Anything About A Subject Vaguely Related To Biology" journal.

I see a lot of very definite predictions being made in that article, especially in the area of what they expect to find.  If anything, genomic diversity between different ethnic groups has been wildly overestimated, not the other way around.

It's basically nonexistant.  The genetic variation is very tiny.  So tiny that humans (all of us) are less genetically diverse than any two regionally distinct groups of chimps.

[Requia ☣]

I just saw the byline.  George Miller, an evolutionary psychologist.  I think I cited him once.   

[Kai]

But once we can simply tell people who and what they are based on their genes, it'll be so much easier than considering them as whole human beings. We need better ways of stuffing people into their boxes, and if we can do it right from birth it'll be much more efficient.

Come on, Cainad, you gotta laugh. Monkeys who think they understand shit when they absolutely understand nothing at all are so funny. 

I can feel the backslide into plato's cave as we speak. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

But once we can simply tell people who and what they are based on their genes, it'll be so much easier than considering them as whole human beings. We need better ways of stuffing people into their boxes, and if we can do it right from birth it'll be much more efficient.