6. And even if we could do all of the above, the environment itself can influence your genes. For example, children growing up in famine conditions alters their genes and pass those same changes on to their children. This is epigenetics.pic.twitter.com/U0torfOw1b
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7. In studies on the “heritability” of many traits, environment plays the biggest part. IQ for example is heavily influenced by resources in childhood, jumping by as much as 20 points from low-resource homes to high-resource homes.
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8. And what are the “outcomes” eugenics is trying to achieve? Many of the “traits” we are talking about are difficult to measure properly, e.g IQ. What about “strength”? That is as much about training and environment as genes?pic.twitter.com/1LALlevNxM
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9. Why stop there? What about compassion? Or emotional intelligence? Or maybe we should ‘breed’ natural rhythm?pic.twitter.com/gSN8WPe9ed
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10. And what we are aiming for? What is a "good height" for example? Should we save money on trouser materials?pic.twitter.com/iWE3rsV4HT
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11. And ultimately what is the point of eugenics? To build a better society? If that were the case the easiest way to improve the “performance” of society would be to adjust the environment: poverty, starvation, poor nutrition.
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12. But the extreme measures proposed by eugenicists seem only to focus on race, which has no basis in actual genetics at all and far more on culture. It’s not about societal wellbeing at all, it’s about racism. Here’s a diagram.pic.twitter.com/Jg5nDiuPsg
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13. So just to summarise - apart from being immoral and inhumane, traits are hundreds of genes, some good some bad, constantly mutating, subject to the environment, has no obvious goal or societal benefit and is completely dissociated from race.
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14. Tl:dr - eugenics is total bullshit.pic.twitter.com/b8TVHshyqk
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15. No. 10 appointing eugenicists to the highest seat of power in the land is not only repugnant, amoral, and racist; it’s plain stupid. Perhaps they should get themselves an IQ test. /end
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16. Abortion for Down's is normalised. It is performed solely on the basis of genetics.
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It also illustrates how short-sighted it is to look only at genetics - 3 Chr. Nr. 21 - instead of the other 2 factors: development during Embryo stage; & enviromental factors. How much the Aberration is expressed = how much it Impacts the child varies wildly.
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