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Eugenics and the Future of the Human Species

Sam Vaknin "It is clear that modern medicine has created a grave dilemma ... In the past, there were many children who never survived - they succumbed to various diseases ... But in a sense new medicine has put natural selection down of commission. Something that has helped one individual finished a serious illness can in the long run contribute to weakening the resistance of the whole human race to certain diseases. If we pay absolutely no attention to what is called hereditary hygiene, we could find ourselves facing a degeneration of the human race. Mankind's hereditary potential for resisting serious disease will be weakened." Jostein Gaarder in "Sophie's World", a bestselling philosophy standard for adolescents publicized in Oslo, Norway, in 1991 and, afterwards, throughout the world, having been translated to dozens of languages. The Nazis regarded the murder of the feeble-minded and the mentally insane - intended to purify the race and maintain hereditary hygiene - as a form of euthanasia. German doctors were enthusiastic proponents of an eugenics movements rooted in ordinal century social Darwinism. Luke Gormally writes, in his essay "Walton, Davies, and Boyd" (published in "Euthanasia Examined - Ethical, Clinical, and Legal Perspectives", ed. John Keown, Cambridge University Press, 1995): "When the jurist Karl Binding and the psychiatrist Alfred Hoche published their tract The Permission to Destroy Life that is Not Worth Living in 1920 ... their motive was to rid society of the 'human ballast and enormous worldly burden' of care for the mentally ill, the handicapped, retarded and unshapely children, and the incurably ill. But the reason they invoked to justify the killing of human beings who fell into these categories was that the lives of such human beings were 'not worthy living', were 'devoid of value'" It is this association with the offensive Nazi regime that gave eugenics - a term coined by a relational of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton, in 1883 - its bad name. Richard Lynn, of the University of Ulster of northwesterly Ireland, thinks that this recoil resulted in "Dysgenics - the genetic deterioration of modern (human) population", as the title of his controversial tome puts it. The crux of the argument for eugenics is that a host of technological, cultural, and social developments conspired to give rise to unfavourable selection of the weakest, least intelligent, sickest, the habitually criminal, the sexually deviant, the mentally-ill, and the least adapted. Contraception is more widely old by the rich and the educated than by the destitute and dull. Birth control as practiced in places like China crooked both the sex distribution in the cities - and increased the weight of the country-style population (rural couples in China are allowed to have two children rather than the cityfied one). Modern medicine and the welfare state collaborate in sustaining alive individuals - mainly the mentally retarded, the mentally ill, the sick, and the genetically defective - who would other have been culled by natural selection to the betterment of the whole species. Eugenics may be based on a literal perceptive of Darwin's metaphor. The 2002 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say: "Darwin's description of the process of earthy selection as the survival of the fittest in the struggle for life is a metaphor. 'Struggle' does not necessarily mean contention, strife, or combat; 'survival' does not mean that ravages of death are needed to make the selection effective; and 'fittest' is virtually never a single optimal genotype but rather an array of genotypes that collectively enhance population survival rather than extinction. complete these considerations are most apposite to consideration of earthy selection in humans. Decreasing infant and childhood mortality rates do not necessarily mean that earthy selection in the human species no longer operates. Theoretically, natural selection could be very hard-hitting if all the children born reached maturity. Two conditions are needed to make this speculative possibility realized: first, variation in the number of children per family and, second, variation related with the heritable properties of the parents. Neither of these conditions is farfetched." The eugenics debate is single the visible extremity of the Man vs. Nature conundrum. Have we truly conquered nature and extracted ourselves from its determinism? Have we graduated from natural to social evolution, from earthy to artificial selection, and from genes to memes? Does the evolutionary process culminate in a being that transcends its genetic baggage, that programs and charts its future, and that allows its weakest and sickest to survive? Supplanting the pressing of the survival of the fittest with a culturally-sensitive principle may be the hallmark of a successful evolution, rather than the beginning of an inexorable decline. The eugenics movement turns this argument on its head. They accept the premise that the contribution of natural selection to the makeup of future hominian generations is cold and negligible. But they reject the conclusion that, having ridden ourselves of its tyranny, we can now let the weak and sick among us survive and multiply. Rather, they propose to replace earthy selection with eugenics. But who, by which authority, and according to what guidelines will administer this man-made culling and decide who is to liveborn and who is to die, who is to breed and who may not? Why superior by intelligence and not by courtesy or altruism or church-going - or al of them together? It is here that eugenics fails miserably. Should the criterion be physical, like in ancient Sparta? Should it be mental? Should IQ determine one's fate - or social status or wealth? diametric answers yield different eugenic programs and target dissimilar groups in the population. Aren't eugenic criteria liable to be unduly influenced by fashion and social bias? Can we agree on a universal eugenic agenda in a international as ethnically and culturally diverse as ours? If we do get it wrong - and the chances are overwhelming - will we not damage our gene pool irreparably and, with it, the prospective of our species? And even if many will avoid a slippery slope leading from eugenics to active extermination of "inferior" groups in the overall population - can we guarantee that everyone will? How to prevent eugenics from being taken by an intrusive, authoritarian, or equal murderous state? Modern eugenicists distance themselves from the unanalyzed methods adopted at the beginning of the last century by 29 countries, including Germany, The United States, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk active free contraceptives for low-IQ women, vasectomies or tubal ligations for criminals, sperm banks with contributions from high achievers, and incentives for college students to procreate. Modern heritable engineering and biotechnology are readily relevant to eugenic projects. Cloning can serve to preserve the genes of the fittest. Embryo selection and prenatal diagnosis of genetically unhealthy embryos can reduce the number of the unfit. But even these harmless variants of eugenics fly in the face of liberalism. Inequality, claim the proponents of heritable amelioration, is genetic, not environmental. complete men are created unequal and as much subject to the natural laws of heredity as are cows and bees. Inferior people give birth to inferior offspring and, thus, propagate their inferiority. Even if this were genuine - which is at best questionable - the question is whether the inferior specimen of our species possess the inalienable far to reproduce? If society is to bear the costs of over-population - social welfare, medical care, daycare centers - then society has the far to regulate procreation. But does it have the far to act discriminately in doing so? Another dilemma is whether we have the moral far - let uncomparable the necessary knowledge - to interfere with natural as well as ethnic and demographic trends. Eugenicists counter that contraception and indiscriminating medicine already do just that. Yet, studies show that the more rich and educated a population becomes - the less fertile it is. Birth rates throughout the world have born dramatically already. Instead of culling the great unwashed and the unworthy - wouldn't it be a better idea to educate them (or their off-spring) and provide them with economic opportunities (euthenics rather than eugenics)? Human populations seem to self-regulate. A gentle and persistent nudge in the right direction - of multiplied affluence and healthier schooling - might achieve more than a hundred eugenic programs, voluntary or compulsory. That eugenics presents itself not merely as a biological-social agenda, but as a panacea, ought to arouse suspicion. The regular eugenics text reads more like a catechism than a reasoned argument. past all-encompassing and omnicompetent plans tended to end traumatically - especially when they contrasted a hominian elite with a dispensable underclass of persons. Above all, eugenics is active human hubris. To presume to know better than the lottery of life is haughty. new medicine largely obviates the need for eugenics in that it allows equal genetically defective people to lead beautiful normal lives. Of course, Man himself - being part of Nature - may be regarded as nothing much than an agent of natural selection. Still, many of the arguments later in favor of eugenics can be turned against it with embarrassing ease. Consider sick children. True, they are a burden to society and a probable menace to the gene pool of the species. But they also inhibit further reproduction in their family by consuming the financial and psychological resources of the parents. Their genes - however imperfect - contribute to genetic diversity. equal a badly mutated phenotype sometimes yields precious scientific knowledge and an absorbing genotype. The underlying Weltbild of eugenics is static - but the realistic world is dynamic. There is no such thing as a "correct" heritable makeup towards which we must complete strive. A combination of genes may be perfectly convertible to one environment - but woefully inadequate in another. It is therefore prudent to encourage genetic diversity or polymorphism. The much rapidly the international changes, the greater the value of mutations of complete sorts. One never knows whether today's maladaptation will not prove to be tomorrow's winner. Ecosystems are invariably comprised of niches and different genes - even mutated ones - may suited different niches. In the 18th century most peppered moths in Britain were silvery gray, same from lichen-covered trunks of silver birches - their habitat. Darker moths were gobbled up by rapacious birds. Their mutated genes tested to be lethal. As soot from sprouting factories smoky these trunks - the very unvarying genes, hitherto fatal, became an utter blessing. The blacker specimen survived while their hitherto perfectly adapted fairer brethren perished ("industrial melanism"). This mode of natural selection is called directional. Moreover, "bad" genes are often connected to "desirable genes" (pleitropy). Sickle cell anemia protects certain African tribes against malaria. This is titled "diversifying or unquiet natural selection". stylized selection can thus fast deteriorate into adverse selection repayable to ignorance. Modern eugenics relies on statistics. It is no longer haunted with causes - but with phenomena and the promising effects of intervention. If the unfavorable traits of off-spring and parents are strongly correlated - then preventing parents with certain ineligible qualities from multiplying will surely reduce the incidence of said dispositions in the general population. Yet, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. The manipulation of one parameter of the correlation does not inevitably alter it - or the incidence of the outcome. Eugenicists often hark back to wisdom garnered by generations of breeders and farmers. But the unequivocal lesson of thousands of years of artificial selection is that cross-breeding (hybridization) - equal of two lines of inferior heritable stock - yields valuable genotypes. Inter-marriage between races, groups in the population, ethnic groups, and clans is thus bound to improve the species' chances of survival much than any eugenic scheme. About The Author
	 	 

10 Steps To Detoxification

Dr. Janet Starr Hull, PhD., CN Technology. We liveborn in a noble time of scientific development. Computers, the Internet, cell phones, digital cameras and DVDs. But the human body has not 'kept up' with technology. hominian beings certainly shouldn't eat technology! But that is on today as a result of the onslaught of chemicals in our foods and environments, and with the close threat of chemical warfare. This very second, your physical body is mysteriously functioning internally exactly the way human bodies functioned 10,000 years ago. Because our bodies today are the same as in the past, it is critical to eat, drink, and live the unvarying as in years past - centuries past. But new societies are adopting one of the most unnatural lifestyles known to mankind. Cancer rates and cardiovascular disease in the United States alone are among the highest in the world as a result of technology interfering with our food supply and living environments. SO WHY DETOX? Have you ever washed unclean dishes without tropical water or dish soap? The dishes don't get clean, do they? When toxic metals and chemical food additives get inside your body, it takes a strong "cleanser" to scrub your body clean from the inside out. The combination of vitamins and minerals through detoxification work in this fashion to remove toxins from your body tissues and body organs, from your water stores, greasy deposits, and within your bloodstream. earthy cleansing is important to remove body toxins, and protects from re-depositing them somewhere else in the body. Toxins such as lead, mercury, and the side effects of aspartame's by-products of formic unpleasant and formaldehyde, block nutrients from getting into normal body cells in the same fashion a lead shield blocks radiation during an x-ray. If toxins are attending within your body, oxygen and the body's "food supply" cannot get inner your cells to supply needed nutrients, nor can the cells' waste products get out. Diseases, such as cancer, now have an environment in which to form. When these body toxins are removed, your body can past restore a well-preserved balance. IDENTIFY, REMOVE, AND RESTORE The basic philosophy down any effective detox program is to identify, remove, and restore. Identify what toxins are at the root of your health problems. Identify = hair analysis Remove the toxins by purifying your body. Remove = detoxification Restore lost nutrients. Restore = nutritional supplements Like pealing the layers off an onion, as each layer is removed finished detoxification, the implicit layers reveal what's really behind disease symptoms. The deeper you go toward removing the 'core' of the problem, healing becomes long reality. TEN STEPS TO DETOXIFICATION Begin with detoxing your body of all residual chemical toxins and see if any unfavorable health symptoms remain. Try these steps for yourself, and within 30 days your symptoms should improve if not completely disappear. The Ten Steps:
  1. Remove complete chemicals from your diet.
  2. Learn to 'read' your body. Begin recording some health changes.
  3. Get a hair analysis.
  4. Be happy with yourself.
  5. Detoxify.
  6. Restore depleted nutrients.
  7. Exercise and get plenty of rest.
  8. Eat 75% raw foods at every meal.
  9. Drink water, water, water.
  10. Get control of your life.
Do not overlook the fact that healing from disease and illness takes faith, own strength, and perseverance. Curing illness and degenerative diseases with a mind-body approach might be thoughtful old-fashioned and useless when compared to today's high tech prescriptions, but it's essential that hominian beings remember that the roots of disease and their cures are as old-fashioned as the body itself, and healing begins with SELF. WHAT IS A HAIR ANALYSIS? A hair analysis determines exactly what chemicals are inside of you, including radiation. nonproprietary medical lab tests don't identify wakeless tissue toxins nor nutrient depletions the same way a hair analysis does. The protein in hair fiber holds the composition of the body tissues for a permanent period. By analyzing your hair fiber composition, you can tell what toxins have concentrated in the body tissues and what vitamins and minerals are depleted or too abundant causing imbalances in body function. By detoxifying unnatural chemicals and by replacing special vitamins individual to your needs, prissy health can be restored using nutrition. The human hair analysis points down these levels, making the hair analysis the BEST tool out there. The link below provides a sample hair analysis report of a twenty-year-old male toxic in mercury. Andy has been a vegetarian all of his life, and ate canned tuna most every day. His over-all toxins were low and his nutrients were fairly balanced, but his mercury level was dangerously high which, in turn, exhausted his lithium stores. Lithium is a critical element that supports emotional and hormonal development. rational he was on a 'healthy' diet, Andy would never have known the potential health dangers within his tissues and bloodstream without having a hair analysis performed. He is relieved to know he prevented future health problems, and now knows how to adjust his diet and supplement program to achieve optimum health. Andy's Hair Analysis: http://www.hairanalysisprogram.com/sample-hair-analysis.php Good nutrition works.
  • Take the time to determine at which point you may have gotten off track nutritionally and what 'poisons' you have been exposed to.
  • Detox your body of all environmental and food chemicals you have been exposed to throughout your lifetime.
  • Restore depleted nutrients finished proper supplements and whole foods.
Toxins are at the root of most diseases, and once they are removed, health and well being return. An hard-hitting detoxification plan removes the source of disease symptoms, much as aspartame or radiation poisoning, detoxifies toxic residue from the body, and replaces specific nutrients to regain a state of wellness. Detoxing the body removes toxins from chemicals quickly and can actually remove most chemical toxins from your body tissues and body organs, from your water stores, and from fat stores within your bloodstream, along with assisting in the elimination of those toxins via the bowels and pores of the body. For more information active Dr. Hull's Detox Program, visit the link below: http://www.detoxprogram.net/ About The Author
	 	 

History of Zyprexa

T.Going Since the beginning of mankind, mental illness has played a role in our society. Victims of much illnesses have been outcast, stereotyped and often ridiculed. However, over time, medical and psychiatric science advanced and the medical community became more knowledgeable of these conditions. It wasn’t until the 20th century when scientists began to experiment with definite chemicals that would alleviate symptoms caused by neurological disorders such as schizophrenia. These drugs are called antipsychotics and they block definite chemical receptors in the brain. At first these drugs were praised in the medical community, however case studies began to show that long term effects of these drugs caused patients to develop grave coordination problems. Since the benefits often times outweighed the risks, doctors continuing to prescribe these drugs to their patients. A creation of a spic-and-span drug with ablated side effects was created in 1989. This drug was called Cloarzil a so called ‘atypical’ antipsychotic. Unlike past drugs, Cloarzil was designed to block certain chemicals, while leaving others alone. While it was a breakthrough in the medical community, the drug caused an elevated light-colored blood cell count which interferes with proper immunological functions. It wasn’t until the mid 90’s that a spic-and-span drug was introduced. This drug was proven in objective studies to have the same number of reduced broadside effects without incorporative the patient’s light-colored blood cell count. This new abnormal antipsychotic drug titled Zyprexa® and was approved by the FDA in 1996. Eli Lily (the drug manufacturer) seasoned great financial success with Zyprexa® as sales doubled to $8 billion in 2002-2003. Even though the drug restricted the number of side effects much as impaired coordination and motor skills it showed an unexpected increase in diabetes mellitus type II. This type of diabetes has proven to be fatal in a number of patients. About The Author
	 	 

Backache - Cause, Cure & Natural Remedies

M.Leonard Alexander The modern world that's before us, offers us the access to anything That we would same to, hence we no longer need to walk daylong distances, nor do we need to spend the unvarying amount of energy that our parents or grand parents would have tired to do a job, for motors and machines have occupied the position and have replaced manual work… This site is votive to some of the common ailments that have started affecting the MANKIND just because of these developments that has happened to the human race… The first ailment, which I have preferred to discuss, is about BACKACHE. Days are absent when only people above 40 old to have the chances of getting BACKACHE, Now No matter you are young or old, BACKACHE can attack you, that to when you expect it the least…it comes to you without any warning. so Beware…a miniscule act like crooked and taking your dropped possession can cause backache. The reason I chose BACKACHE, as the first topic for discussion is that, BACKACHE is the chief reasons for absence from work. Several million man-hours are lost repayable to BACKACHE. The reason for this is the sedentary life style that the human race has started to adopt. (Modern developments) To look at the clinical reasons, as we get older the changes that occur in the spine too can cause BACKACHE. We get a little shorter, from bone shrinkage, there is a lot of thinning of the discs and spine develops unhealthy spurs. About The Author
	 	 

Digging Up Earthnuts (Conopodium Majus)

Simon Mitchell The custom of grubbing for Earthnuts, or Pignuts is as ancient as mankind itself. Although these tasty tubers are beloved of pigs (hence the name) they are a most unusual and rewarding woodland snack and there was a time when they were a popular nibble for country children on their way to and from school. The fern same leaves appear along with the small Celandine in the spring. During May and July they develop umbellifer heads with white flowers not unlike Cow Parsley. According to Gerard and others the Dutch once ate them 'boiled and buttered, as we do parseneps and carrots'. Unearthing a pignut is a delicate operation. The root disconnects from the tuber very easily, which can be single inches from where the stem appears above ground. Follow the stem low the earth using careful scraping with a twig, fingernail or knife. Eventually you will reach the pignut which is covered with a chestnut dark-coloured skin. If you can wash the nut at this stage it avoids getting muddy fingernails while peeling. As soon as I found the cardinal shown in the picture, an earthworm appeared and dived into the hole it left! Scrape off the papery outer coating to reveal the Earthnut. The old name for Earthnuts is 'Earth Chestnuts' and this gives you a clue to their taste - a chromatic texture but with a more indecent taste. There's nothing like carefully digging one of these up during a walk in the woods. Do it with your fingernails. As the indecent taste hits the senses you are drawn more completely into contact with the nature around you. A genuine 'pomme de terre'. Gerard's Herbal mentions that 'There is a Plaister ready-made of the seeds hereof, whereof to write in this place were spirited to our historie'....Probably witches again! Earthnuts get a mention in Shakespeare's 'Tempest', from Caliban as he promises: "I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
	 	 

History of Zyprexa - FDA recalled drug

The History of Zyprexa Since the beginning of mankind, mental illness has played a role in our society. Victims of much illnesses have been outcast, stereotyped and often ridiculed. However, over time, medical and psychiatric science advanced and the medical community became more knowledgeable of these conditions. It wasn’t until the 20th century when scientists began to experiment with definite chemicals that would alleviate symptoms caused by neurological disorders such as schizophrenia. These drugs are called antipsychotics and they block definite chemical receptors in the brain. At first these drugs were praised in the medical community, however case studies began to show that long term effects of these drugs caused patients to develop grave coordination problems. Since the benefits often times outweighed the risks, doctors continuing to prescribe these drugs to their patients.
	 	 

Hailed as "The Queen of Green" by the New York Times, Debra

If you are reading this article, chances are that you or someone you care about has cancer right now! Cancer is the uncontrolled growth and spread of defective cells. Normally, cells grow and divide to produce much cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy. Sometimes, however, this orderly process goes wrong. spic-and-span cells form equal when the body does not need them, and antediluvian cells do not die when they should. The unnecessary cells form a mass of tissue called a growth or a tumor. Not all tumors are cancerous; tumors can be cancerous (cancerous) or kind (non-cancerous). Cancer has been around as long as mankind. In the second half of the 20th century, the number of reported cancer cases exploded. Due in part to the overload of toxins, pollutants, stress, dietary changes, lifestyle changes with people being less physical active, increasing numbers of pathogens, electromagnetic stress, artificial lighting and thousands of things that were not around 100 years ago. All of these combine to weaken your exempt system and alter internal bodily functions, thus clearing the way for cancer to develop.
	 	 
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