Thanks for posting this. Heard him talking about it and wanted to listen, but I had work to do that required making noise. I said to myself “I bet Kaslin will have a post on this later...” ;)
Which makes a key point about Communist persistence: Never, ever give up, never concede you were wrong about 2 + 2 = 5, never abandon an old doctrine that worked for a while once before. Just shift your ground, shift your emphasis like a boxer going over from right- to left-hand punches, and bide your time.
Then bring out all the old b.s. all over again, and dump it on a brand-new audience of ingenues who have no idea what enormous b.s.'ers you are.
They better be careful what they wish for...
How about the stress that taxpayers have trying to hold a job, raise a family and pay taxes? What does that do for the middle class dna? Can’t be good for it.
Liberals embraced the science frauds Paul R. Ehrlich, of “The Population Bomb”, and James E. Hansen, who created MMGW out of whole cloth. So it should be of no surprise that they are now embracing Trofim Lysenko.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
“Folks, I’m not making this up. Until the last century, just about everybody in the world came from poverty. The world! Everybody in the world came from, was born into poverty. Such was the average economic circumstance for most people, I mean the vast majority. The story of humanity from the beginning of time has been one of tyranny and bondage.”
There could be some affects from drugs, toxic environment, even conceivably constant stress but Rush’s last paragraph above put the stress part in perspective (anyhow our ancestors must have been stressed competing with lions and tigers for food - toss the stress then).
This sounds nonsensical, blaming chromosome damage on poverty.
Sounds a little like Lamarckism to me... And yep, the commies loved that theory and continued to perpetuate it well after it had been debunked in the 60s.
DEVO - Mongoloid (Original Version) 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9cg-1HwhO4
actually, their comments on telomeres is correct.
it is what they did with that information that is stoopid
start watching
2 guys won a nobel prize on this, IIRC, on stopping telomere decay in cell replication
http://www.dnalc.org/view/16888-2009-Nobel-Prize-in-Medicine-or-Physiology-Telomeres.html
From a purely material standpoint, almost every single person in western countries is considerably better off than the average just a century ago.
This theory reminds me of the claim that some Indian tribes and other groups are peculiarly susceptible genetically to obesity because they have a history of intermittent starvation, so their bodies store food when available with great efficiency.
What this ignores is that until a few centuries ago, intermittent starvation was universal among humans. And a few centuries is not enough to change genetic inheritance much.
More like "People with poor-quality DNA are engaging in excessive breeding..."