Curing Obesity through Sterility: California 's Controversial Program Under the Microscope

Pacific Northwest Medical Association ^ | March 2005 | Joseph Williams

[dread78645]

Brave New World, indeed.

[steveo]

This is a repost of an earlier hoax

[struggle]

>>Brave New World, indeed.

But a vasectomy makes one wonderfully pneumatic.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Hoax:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373830/posts?page=26#26

[Servant of the 9]

Eugenics can be a good thing.

It's voluntary.........this week anyway

So9

[Hodar]

This hoax may be visited at this link:

http://www.pnmj.org/0032205_curing_obesity.asp

Do you have any evidence to support your hoax allegation?

[thoughtomator]

Had to be a joke... but I won't be all that surprised to see this in a decade or so. Anyone whose genes are incompatible with looking good on TV, snip snip.

[Betis70]

The whole thing is a hoax. Follow the FR thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373830/posts?page=26#26

Or read about it on their own website.

http://www.pnmj.org/last.asp

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Do you have any evidence to support your hoax allegation?

Go here, and scroll down to "A Big Fat Hoax".

[BenLurkin]

I'd like to see voluntary sterilization for the poor. A $1,000 bonus would be appropriate in addition to making the procedure free for the volunteers.

[donmeaker]

you know what engineers use for birth control?









Their personalities.

[thoughtomator]

I would guess the tip-off is that the "Pacific Northwest Medical Journal" isn't cited anywhere, and the only thing that comes up on Google is that it's a sponsored link on Broken Newz.

[walden]

This is total b.s.. Compare the average weight/height of Americans today versus anytime in the past-- when people knew that gluttony was a sin, and when most jobs required hard physical work-- and you'll quickly see that the so-called genetic basis of obesity is hogwash. It's a character issue, pure and simple. And character is something that we're all of us, all the time, working on-- either in a positive or a negative direction.

There is NO character issue, no matter how severe, that we cannot change about ourselves, with our own hard work and help from God. None.

[noblejones]

>>
you know what engineers use for birth control?

Their personalities.
<<

* rim shot *

Thank you ladies and gentlemen; Don will be here all week. Please remember to tip your waiters and waitresses; they're working hard for you.

[Hodar]

Thanks.

Interesting comment is that this article was placed for the sole purpose of humiliating 'journalists' who would use this story without checking the facts out.

The site looks well done, the name sounds real, and I for one was fooled. < Yup, I'll admit when I make a mistake; and I believed this one>

[charleywhiskey]

Bill Doty and Joe Peacock are staff writers on Broken Newz. They must be having a real laugh because this bogus story has been picked up on a lot of forums lately.

[Hodar]

I'd like to see voluntary sterilization for the poor. A $1,000 bonus would be appropriate in addition to making the procedure free for the volunteers.

Bingo!! I can't think of a better use for my tax dollars.

I'm aware of numerous working families who want to have more kids, but simply can't afford to. The medical bills from their last child will be with them for years; and that was an uncomplicated birth of a healthy baby. Meanwhile, the poorest and most uneducated are having children without the accompanying medical bills, free food and free clothing.

[walden]

AH, I see. Thanks!

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Somewhere, Der Fuhrer is smiling.

[rellimpank]

Efforts to overcome the irreversibility of vasectomy have also led to experimentation with the implantation of faucetlike devices that can be made to open

---this would no doubt be a ball valve---