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Interview on the future of Eugenics in the postgenomic world
How did you first become interested in
eugenics?
I have always been interested in human behavior, and especially human
rationality: are we really different from other animals and how? As any young
radically minded college kid thirty-five years ago, I loved to debate issues and
I remember that I never felt comfortable with either conservatives or liberals,
not to mention the left. Like most however, I left the academic world for the
work-a-day world, and finding other people interested in subjects like race and
eugenics was difficult.
About ten years ago, as I was spending more time on the Internet, I read the now
infamous book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American
Life by the late Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The Left was so
hysterical over what I thought was an obvious observation in the book, that
intelligence is primarily genetic or heritable and that the races differed in
average intelligence, that I began to debate the issue on the Internet. But I
was ill-equipped to defend my position, so I began to study mostly academics
books that dealt with race, genetics, eugenics, and human behavior in general.
From what I read, it seemed that eugenics could be an answer to the race
problem, at least for Whites. At some point then, I decided to open up my web
site around the theme of eugenics, as well as exploring related issues important
to White nationalists.
What is your viewpoint of eugenics and the modern world? How do you define
eugenics?
For clarity, I will mention the three main phases of eugenics. Humans, for at
least 50,000 years and probably much longer, have practiced a form of eugenics,
as all animals do. In breeding, usually the female selects a male of the highest
quality she can attract. In addition, humans have in the past, and some tribes
still do today, kill children that are not seen to be viable or under
circumstances that are not conducive to having a child. Usually, the child was
killed immediately after birth before the mother became attached to it.
The first modern eugenics movement was about as modern as medicine was 150 years
ago, and it started about the same time in stutters and spurts. I won't go into
much detail as so much has been written about the early eugenics' movement, much
of it available at my web site. But just like earlier medicine, it was primitive
and based more on a value system in the West that saw a world dominated by vice
and despair. Prostitution, illiteracy, alcoholism, blindness, extreme poverty,
etc. were all to be cured by improving the human blood line. It was simplistic,
and it did not have the tools of genetics to guide it. But primarily, it was
displaced by radical environmentalism (Marxism), especially after the Second
World War when the victors were allowed to write the history. Eugenics was
linked to National Socialism and declared to be a universal evil.
In the fifties however, after the genetic code was discovered, eugenics has been
on a long march back to life. It goes by other names like genetic engineering,
stem cell research, prevention of birth defects, etc. However, these are all
eugenic applications, and they are accelerating exponentially as DNA for not
only humans, but for all kinds of animals are decoded. For example, the genetic
code for breeds of dogs was just published, and breeds of dogs look very much
like human races.
My own definition of applied eugenics is any action taken, whether due to
natural innate goals or by design, that improves the quality of genes as
determined by the agent. That is, different people may select for different
genes such as beauty, intelligence, or athletic ability. That is the same as
breeding dogs for different purposes.
Do you write? If so, what are some of your works?
All of my written articles are posted at my web site, and I try to post new
material every month. I have two books that are free for downloading that have
to do with race and eugenics: Shattering the Myth of Racism (two
volumes). I have also published in The Mankind Quarterly an article
entitled "Reproductive Perspectives: A Review of Some Recent Books on the Ethics
of Manipulating Human Genes." It is also available at my web site. It is a good
introduction to eugenics and the Marxist opposition.
Most of my other articles are reviews of academic books that are either from the
Left or provide empirical data on the application of eugenics and racialism. My
goal has always been to use a scientific approach in understanding human nature
so that any future political and/or communal systems implemented work for the
benefit Whites.
Is it difficult for you to separate fact and fantasy when you write about
eugenics?
There are two components to eugenics. One is the scientific, and it deals with
genetic engineering and provides the tools for genetic selection. This "fact" is
the easy partit is pursued because it is pure science, there is money to be
made, and people want to provide the very best genes for their children. The
other component is the racialist factor or even religion if you will. For me at
least, it is not fantasy nor is it utopian. It is simply the desire to see one's
own race improving itself genetically to out-compete other races. For me, it is
not enough for one's children to do well, for without the race one belongs to
the children are left alone and isolated. My genes, my race's genes, are to me
one and the same. We either collectively work to preserve those genes or they
will be lostwiped out by other competing races who wish us harm. That is a
basic premise of evolution. Individuals, races, and species all compete for
survival. The White race is under attack globally, and for me eugenics is one
way to preserveand improvea race that is worth keeping in tact.
The people I target of course are those interested in eugenics, and the
political struggles that it entails. The people are fairly diverse, including
White racialists from India, Turkey, Brazil, and many other countries where
there is an elite that is still White. They, more than many in the West,
understand racial differences quite well.
My ideas are rather diverse, but I focus both on political struggle and what we
can learn about human nature to make Whites more aware of the threats against
them. We are labeled universally as colonialists, White supremacists,
capitalists, and a race that universally has White privilege because we are
inherently evil and must be destroyed so that the oppressed everywhere can be
free. So a lot of my writings have to do with the counter arguments from a
neo-Darwinist perspective and related scientific investigations that tease apart
the ideological contradictions in the antiracist program of White vilification.
A good way to get a glimpse of this war against the West is to just do a Google
search on "White privilege" and scan the results.
Back when eugenics was an accepted science and theory, what kinds of things did
International Congresses on Eugenics do?
Very much the same programs as current political movements undertakepeople
publish reports, scientific papers, proposals on what should be done, etc. There
was a large database program that tried to keep track of family lineages, to try
and understand eugenics. There also were sterilization laws passed, information
on eugenics in textbooks, etc. But it had little real impact overall because it
was a top down program, and we have seen how ineffective these programs are like
the "War on Drugs" or the "No Child Left Behind" program now floundering in the
educational system.
Even in Nazi Germany, a late comer to the eugenics movement, it was not very
effective or even practiced. Many have equated the Holocaust with eugenics, but
quite the opposite is true. The Nazis saw the Jews as very effective
competitors, not inferior, and they were eliminated as enemies. Even the feeble
attempt at euthanasia against defective Germans was meant to free up hospital
beds for the new influx of wounded German soldiers.
Who do you see as the founding fathers of the study of eugenics?
Surprisingly, aside from Sir Francis Galton, I would have to list the real
heroes as those who undertook to turn back the Marxist radical environmentalism
that followed the earlier eugenics' movement. If you want an overview of the
earlier advocates, see my review of War Against the Weak: Eugenics and
America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black, 2003. Black
severely distorts the history of eugenics, but his book does show how Marxists
continue to distort eugenics, but also how it was made up of many different
perspectives and objectives.
When Francis Crick and James Watson, in 1953, announced "we had found the secret
of life," the eugenics program was reborn before the old one had even died. Over
the next fifty years, such giants as William Donald Hamilton and Robert Trivers
as evolutionary theorists would explain how humans could reproduce for selection
of kin and also act as selfless altruiststhey would explain morality in terms
of selection. Richard Dawkins would explain how humans are vehicles for our
"selfish genes," and E. O. Wilson would explain how ants and humans alike
followed genetic programs to fulfill the gene's goals. Arthur R. Jensen would
show us that intelligence is the most important human trait, and one that is
almost entirely genetic while William Shockley would warn us about breeding
ourselves into stupidity.
More recently, Kevin MacDonald would publish three volumes on the group
evolutionary strategies between Jews and gentiles, and show us how racial groups
compete, while J. Philippe Rushton would explain how the races differ on
numerous behavioral traits in Race, Evolution, and Behavior, 1995. In
1996 Richard Lynn would publish Dysgenics, followed in 2001 with Eugenics, A
Reassessment and in 2002 publish along with Tatu Vanhanen: IQ and the
Wealth of Nations.
Eugenics today is not the top down hierarchical movement of the past, where
ideologues, philanthropists, and politicians drive the program. It is now a
bottom up program where thousands of researchers in evolutionary behavior,
behavior genetics, genetic engineering, computer sciences, ethology, cognitive
neuroscience, and self-organizing systems that emerge from simple programs to
complex societies, are all telling the story of eugenics, even though many of
the researchers miss the connection between human behavior and directed
evolutionary change. Just as humans tend to separate themselves naturally into
communities based on race and social status, humans are equally going about the
business of looking after their children, kin and race. We see that occurring in
Iraq, where suicide bombers are sacrificing themselves for what they see as the
higher good of their peoplethey are doing the tasks asked them by their genes
and a dose of religious indoctrination.
For these reasons, eugenics today will probably be a rather leaderless movement,
while it plays itself out in competition between individuals and races, at all
levels and in a myriad of ways. It is also why the movement is less in need of
leaders and more in need of resources to allow it to self-organize itself into
racial breeding groups. Fundamentally then, eugenics for Whites is a matter of
deprogramming ourselves from the false promises of socialism, Marxism, diversity
and egalitarian dogmas. These moralizing gods have strangled our race
into capitulating to the demands of other races for their benefit.
What do you believe was the contribution of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) to
the study of eugenics?
As the first psychologist to label human behavior as coming from our heredity,
his brilliance preceded our genetic understanding by 100 years. Galton would not
be vindicated until we had passed through our "nave environmentalism" phase,
ushered in by Marxism and ideological changes brought about by World War Two.
But his influence and his insights into forming numerous tests to determine
heritability still stand. Arthur R. Jensen, clearly the most profound researcher
in psychometrics today, and the leading theoretician showing that intelligence
must be genetic, cites Francis Galton as one of three psychologists' written
works that he reads again and again to direct new research programs.
Galton was an eclectic eccentric, jumping from one study to another without the
benefit of peer reviews or others to build upon, and yet he saw what others
could not all around hima person was the product of their breeding, not their
environments (for the most part). That was an astounding leap in knowledge and
observation before we understood any of the scientific principles that underpin
eugenics today.
Would you agree with Galton who believed that eugenics is a science, sentiment,
and policy?
Very much so. First, it is science in that we know now how organisms are
determined by their genes, humans are not exempt. Policy is society's way of
altering the local ecology in such a way that people's breeding patterns are
altered, as we can clearly see in the higher breeding rates of the underclass.
Policy such as welfare and affirmative action, international aid to third world
countries, and open borders that allow underdeveloped countries to export their
human misfits, are what Galton warned us about.
Finally, sentiment is all important in that there seems to be a natural
balancewhat scientists call an evolutionary stable strategywhere there are
people who lean towards nurturing the weak versus those who are tough minded.
Between these extremes, society indoctrinates people to shift their perspectives
in one direction or the otherfrom helping the downtrodden to letting them fend
for themselves. The pendulum has shifted back and forth for centuries. Some in
the eugenics' movement, including myself, have no problem with labeling our
sentiment a religion, one based on science but also accepting that people are to
be held accountable for their actions, and breeding more misfits should stand
squarely on the shoulders of the breeders, not on the general public. So we
definitely have a problem with "sentiment," a holdover from our evolutionary
tribal past, where we now provide services to not only to our own tribal members
in need, but to anyone who asks for help, whether they deserve it or not.
Ive read that Galton viewed wealth and urbanism as destructive forces upon a
race. Although I would tend to agree, I think that if White people are looking
for their own living space, wealth may be necessary to establish that. Wouldnt
you agree?
Galton was talking of course again about urbanism, or as we would call it today
cosmopolitanism, or the tendency towards egalitarianism. Wealth in itself is not
a problem; it is when excess wealth is used to help the underclass out-breed the
wealthier classes that problems arise. Of course, there is no direct correlation
between wealth and intelligence, but they are correlated enough for a dysgenic
effect to take hold when the wealthy stop breeding while the underclass
undertakes breeding as a way of life, as long as the larger society provides for
their basic needs. It is really the tragedy of the commons problem.
Socialist governments collect money from the producers, and then redistribute it
to those who lobby for it. The needy always have advocates that plead on their
behalf, as well as the general public preferring not to be confronted with
beggars, thieves, and hungry children.
That is one reason that I believe that racialists should not run away to
isolated rural compounds, but rather stay in urban environments where wealth is
easier to accumulate. Wealth is what will give us the means to set up our own
schools, communities, and alternative ways of living, as well as providing for
more children. I think this can be done right in the midst or our enemies with
secure communities working together. Besides, there is nothing like a constant
reminder of why we want to separate ourselves from other races to help us bind
together into our own enclaves. Niche building is easier when there are
resources and motivation.
What comes to mind when I say William Shockley? From what I have read,
Shockley (1910-1989) concerned himself with the population quality problem,
rather than the quantity problem. Are these two distinct issues in your view?
Aside from resurrecting the eugenics movement to some degree, he helped to focus
society's attention on the fertility of those with low IQs. He also did this
during the height of the civil rights movement, so he was quite a thorn to the
egalitarians as he was also very outspoken on intelligence and race. Since
Shockley and Jensen, the eugenics movement has been primarily focused on raising
intelligence, whereas before that time eugenics attempted to solve too many
problems. Intelligence, it was shown, made the difference for many of our social
problems. An intelligent alcoholic is far better off and better able to control
the problem than an alcoholic of low intelligence. So he focused the movement on
trying to raise intelligence, and not other behavioral conditions that we may
not want to part withsuch as individualism or ethnocentrismthat may turn out
to be very necessary in a changing world. Intelligence however is one trait that
everyone wants. Has anyone ever wished for a stupid child rather than an
intelligent one? Yet, the Left continues to deny its importance.
Shockley was just one of those rare gems that comes along every once in a while
and challenges the status quo, with intelligence and determination. Many others
have contributed to the research, but he preached the necessary message. He was
shouted down, but he kept eugenics alive by his efforts. No one else stood up
and stated the obvious like he did. And his recommendations for sterilizing
those with low intelligence by offering them monetary incentives is still one
the best ways of implementing eugenics while not being coercive.
As to the quality versus quantity problem, they are definitely distinct issues.
If we make sure that the average White intelligence is increasing over time, but
there are very few Whites left, it is all rather pointless. On the other hand,
to just increase the size of the White race, without making sure that we are
more creative, intelligent and productive than other races is likewise not very
promising for a our future generations.
I think separating them as issues is important, and fighting for each
independently is necessary because we do not know what lies ahead. We can try to
stop open immigration to preserve our environments as we work to remake our
political system into one that is conducive to eugenics. But if that fails, we
may have to rely on a cohesive racial community to keep our race alive.
Whichever fight one focuses on, they are both important.
As men who studied human intelligence a phenomenon very concrete to some, and
so very abstract to others what was it about Arthur Jensen and J. Philippe
Rushton that made them be despised as they were and still are?
Yes, both men are often mentioned by the Left, but they are very different types
of people. Jensen has been around for much longer, and has been attacked
relentlessly for over 35 years, and yet he has never changed his research agenda
or his politics in the face of the hatred and physical abuse he has had to
endure. In fact, Jensen just plain does not have any politics, he just does
research and publishes the results. This probably bothers the Left more than
anything else, because he has shown for 35 years that Blacks are less
intelligence than Whites, the gap is substantial (about 15 IQ points), and it is
primarily genetic.
The whole science of psychometrics, or testing for mental ability and behavioral
traits, has called this observation Jensenism, and it basically stands
alone, unchallenged. All the Left can do is attack Jensenism and Jensen
himself, because they have been unable to provide any research that shows that
the gap is because of environmental causes.
Rushton on the other hand is political, and unabashed about stating his position
and telling the world. In Canada, where he is a professor at the University of
Western Ontario, they tried to go after him in the courts under hate crime laws
for his book Race, Evolution, and Behavior. He then turned around and
published an abridged edition and sent it free to other professors. So unlike
Jensen, he is political as well as a brilliant researcher. Political or not
however, if anyone steps out of line when it comes to discussing the genetic
difference in the average intelligence of different races, they will be
attacked. By the way, any one who states that Jews are more intelligent than
Whites will be attacked as a racist just as surely as those who point out that
Whites are more intelligent than Blacks. Jews, primarily Ashkenazi Jews, are
VERY touchy about this issue.
Looking at the current social policies of the USA, what do you see as our
nations trajectory twenty or forty years from now?
A lot of people make predictions on trending, but of course that requires
ignoring any future changessuch as the trend that Whites will be a minority in
America in fifty years. I prefer to look at trends and combine them with human
nature, advancements in science, and the rest is just chance.
With regards to eugenics, the science no doubt will progress in about a decade
to the point where we can identify the 10 or 20 genes that are responsible for
intelligence. At that point, any couple with a few thousands dollars can have a
dozen or so eggs harvested, fertilized, and tested for the intelligence genes,
along with tests for any genetic diseases, and implant the most intelligent and
disease free fertilized egg of the lot. This will advance selective breeding by
ten fold or more. The really beautiful thing however is it will happen within a
free market economy. Eugenics, without any help from advocates, will be advanced
by the desire of parents for intelligent children and for a marketplace to
deliver the services for a fee. Countries will try to stop it, but it will win
out in the end as labs will just be set up off-shore and couples on vacation
just happen to avail themselves of genetic engineering services while relaxing
at the beach.
On the political side, it will be the end of race deniers and radical
environmentalism. People will no longer be willing to pour billions of dollars
into trying to wipe out racism so that little Black kids can finally learn. The
true reason, genes, will be finally conclusive, and people will stop believing
the nave environmentalist's position. Even President Bush's No Child Left
Behind is a remnant of this cultural ignorance of the impact of genes. So
denying the genetic basis of intelligence is embraced by both the Left and
conservatives alike. They need it to control the fractious results of racial
diversity. No where in the world are diverse races, with significant differences
of innate intelligence, living in peace without government coercion to keep it
that way. In the United States, all racial problems are blamed on White
privilegeend of discussion.
However, we may have an ally in radical Islam. As the war on terrorism drags on,
it will also be glaringly evident to Western culture that we are different from
Semitic tribalism and fanaticism. These differences are also genetic, and we may
see some realignment in existing factions. If Islam wants us out of the Middle
Eastfineas long as we can remove Semites from the West. So radical Islam may
be just what the radical right needs to make the case that other races are
indeed dangerous and should be considered so until proven otherwise. It may be
the reality check that has been needed for a very long time: humans are
naturally tribal and will take advantage of another's weakness.
Although we both know that eugenics is highly desirable in this increasingly
dysgenic country (and world), do you see it as feasible in contemporary
America? Is it even plausible in modern times?
As I stated above, once the political forces start moving to the empirical
right, as I think they have been, eugenics will evolve on its own much faster
than we can anticipate by the current mood and media messages we are surrounded
by. A few months ago one of the leading eugenics advocates called for a meeting
to discuss eugenics among those involved in the movement. There was no response
however, and I think I know why. Eugenics is not the stand-alone program it was
100 years ago. Then, it was a program to "save us from decadency." Today, every
eugenicist I know of (except for one) is tied to what I can only describe as the
empirical racialist right for lack of a better term. We are not one group
but we are inserted within many other groups.
Eugenics is not only feasible, it is in fact here, but it is denied. When
welfare reform placed a five year limit on benefits, the welfare state was
rolled back; When the No Child Left Behind program collects tests scores, we
will be able to show how it is all in the genes; As we incarcerate more
criminals we keep them from breeding; People are now going to labs to screen
their fetuses for genetic diseases. All of these changes are eugenics without
official imprimaturbut they eugenics none the less.
If you think it is, do you agree with Galton when he said that It is above all
things needful for the successful program of eugenics that its advocates should
move discreetly and claim no more efficacy on its behalf than the future will
confirm; otherwise a reaction will be invited (1909)?
The early advocates of eugenics should have taken note of his warning. They
claimed too much, and when it didn't materialize, and when the Marxists linked
eugenics to the Nazis, eugenics was pushed aside. Now that we have another
chance at making a real difference, we should not overstate our case or promise
a utopia. There is no way to prove that a world filled with intelligent people
will be a better world than one filled with stupid people. But all of the
research seems to indicate that a highly intelligent nation could move towards
direct democracy and more freedom.
Aside from a long term vision, it is possible and preferable that any eugenics
community that is based on racial separatism, shroud themselves in discretion as
Galton advised, and establish themselves within a religious community. I am no
legal expert on the separation of church and state, but a religious community
seems like the best way to form a racial community without running into legal
problems. Religious organizations have many tax and legal advantages, as well as
being allowed to establish doctrine without state intervention. As long as the
eugenic religious group does not provoke others, they should be able to go about
practicing eugenics very effectively just as Galton advised. I am somewhat
disappointed that we have not been able to establish any eugenic groups as yet
based on Galton's advice, but many are trying to promote the idea and get one
formed, somewhere, somehow.
How can eugenics play a role for those of us who are interested in ensuring the
future of our race? Without getting involved in biotechnology, what can we do
aside from chose a mate who is of good racial stock and high intelligence?
My April, 2004 article entitled "Niche Construction," taken from recent
research, is probably the best I have to offer for mechanisms to racial
formation of solidarity groups. In short, we all have to find others like us,
make sure they are sincere and not joiners for short term goals, and keep the
movement going. There has to be a certain number of people in a location to
start the process, some organization, and IT HAS TO BE REWARDING. The reason we
have so many race traitors is because humans want to be liked and they will buy
into the latest social norms to be safe and feel like they are doing the right
thing. And of course, Whites fall into this indoctrinability easier than other
races because of our tendency towards universal moralism and censoring our own
for not abiding by the ruleslike pandering to minorities every time they demand
action from us in their favor. Whites evolved in an ecological niche that was
free of tribalism but a hard life in terms of climate. So we are easy prey for
more tribalist races.
The Internet is a great place to talk over ideas and contact people, but it is a
difficult forum for sustaining a growing movement. However, a group of
like-minded people, working together to build a life of racial separation, a
goal of not just a community but making money to sustain and expand the group
and to provide for things like home schooling, is all it really takes. But the
most important part is an ability to eject disruptive members who do not put in
the necessary effort to understand the complexities of human nature, or have
egos that need to be fed by group members. It seems that charismatic leaders are
often necessary but also dangerous. Don't become a cult, become a community that
enjoys the process as well as the goal.
There are many Whites who want to separate themselves from other races, but they
belong to communities where that attitude is shunned. And a final note, humans
usually belong to many groups with a common interest. It is quite easy then to
have a racial community but go to work in a multicultural environment. I am able
to juggle this very effectively depending on what group I am among. When
necessary I am a liberal, a humanist, a libertarian, a racist, whatever. Then
when I get the opportunity with certain people I try to get them to discuss
issues that will break down their dogmatic ways of thinkingbut gently so they
don't dig in even more in being a self-hating White.
What do you see as the social and racial values of birth control?
Birth control methods have been invented, they are now available everywhere, and
they will be used. There are many eugenicists that preach having more
childrenbut human nature as it is has been unhinged from procreation. The goals
that drive humans evolved under conditions where birth control was not an
option. As a result, nature has equipped us more with sexual desire that
procreation desire. This is a problem that can't be solved by preaching alone.
A eugenics' community then must structure itself technologically and politically
to overcome this ecological change. Birth control can be used to reduce the
number of misfits a society has to toleratethose who destroy more than they
build. Resources can also be used either by the state or a racial community to
produce more children. Perhaps, through the correct breeding program, we can
give our offspring a greater desire to have children than humans have now. In
the short term we must use incentives that people feel are fair and equitable. I
will never accept the premise that it is the women's "duty" to have more
children for the benefit of the race. Men have to do their part in providing the
conditions where the burden of children is equally shared between men and women.
When the rewards of having children are greater than the burden, we will have
more children.
To some, this may seem like an obvious answer, but Ill ask anywayHow do you
view the relationship between health and eugenics? I see this relationship as
one in which an increase in health will lead to an increase in ones chances for
a eugenic mate, as well as a decrease in crime and ignorance. Would you agree?
Genes don't act alone, but work on a planned development from the fetus to old
age, where genes interact with the environment in making us what we are. Health
of course is important, keeping children safe, free of disease, etc. But in
addition, we must be very aware of the developmental stages that children go
through, when to guide them, when to prod them, but more importantly when to
leave them alone to learn at their own pace. Recent studies are showing that
pushing children too hard does little to improve their progress in school,
sports, music, what have you. However, it can increase anxiety. It can also push
children into areas that they are not innately talented for. Most children find
their own niches, so we must understand their developmental projectiles, and
assist, not deter what they are good at and where they want to go as they grow.
The old model, that children are empty vessels that we just pour knowledge and
values into is being replaced with the model that they come into the world
already equipped to learn language, social interaction, abstract reasoning,
fairness, etc. An understanding of how the genes interact with the environment
to mold the child is all important. It also has a great deal to do with how we
keep our children attached to the value systems that are important, and this
definitely has a great deal to do with how they behave and how it affects their
health.
The problem with value systems however is that children can take on one set of
values while in the home, and another set of values from their friends, from
school, etc. These different sets of values will change expression as they enter
the home or go out with their friends. We need to learn a lot more about how we
can influence our children's values, which areas of their behavior will be
primarily genetically determined, and what areas are more flexible. For example,
a massive thirteen year study of adolescents funded by NIMH, supported by five
universities, showed that sociability and autonomy could be influenced by the
home environment (see my web site for a review of The Relationship Code:
Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development). We can
beat the Left at their own game of relying only on the environment, but focusing
our resources where they can alter for the better our children's future, while
understanding where genes dominate. Our social and health care system today is
not as effective as it could be because genes and genetic differences are more
often than not totally ignored.
What are some good references or sources for people who are interested in
learning more about eugenics?
Some of the books I cited above are good starters, and I have reviewed many of
the books on eugenics, both pro and con, at my web site. Another good eugenics'
site is Future Generations at http://www.eugenics.net. The Internet is a great
source for all kinds of perspectives, but like abortion or civil rights it is
extremely emotion laden. The science however is moving at an incredible pace,
and almost daily in the news you will hear something pertaining to eugenics,
without the word being used of course. In areas like cloning, human engineering,
health care based on racial differences, new genes being discovered, better
screening for genetic disease, stem cell researchthese are all part of
eugenics. So to learn about eugenics, keep an open mind, and look at the data
that is all around us as well as buried in academic books and research.
If you are a dog lover and familiar with breeding, recent research has shown
that breeds of dogs are exactly the same as human races. Almost all the genes
are the same between breeds of dogs, but a few genes tweaked here and there by
selection have allowed us to alter the temperament, looks, health, and
intelligence of the different breeds. Dogs are a good model of what eugenics can
do for those who love dogs. Humans and dogs coevolved together over the last
10,000 years, and recent research is showing that they have an astounding sense
of our mental states, much more so than our closest relatives the chimpanzees.
Gazing into your mutt's mind, he his gazing likewise back at yours. Wolves can't
do thatwe have bred our dogs to interact with us mentally just by being so
closely bound with our pets for such a long period of time.
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