Can’t wait to see the pearl clutching from the boomers with their “But the media told us that IQ is not genetic and the media would never lie to me!”
Maybe embryos can vote in elections already.
I’ve heard you can get more than a 6 pt jump, which doesn’t sound worth it, thru infant education. An old boyfriend married and went to the Better Baby Bureau with his first child. They said babies could initially crawl and had him build a ramp from the bed to a leather channel that ran around the bed and had the newborn crawl with gravity down the ramp and “crawl” around the channel. Don’t remember that it worked well.
But he also had signs on EVERYTHING, including people, in the house so that the infant could learn to sightread at an ungodly age. So much enjoyed his stories. Actually, his entire family was composed of geniuses, so all the extra work was probably useless. Major professors at major universities, sculptors, computer scientists, symphony orchestra members, doctors, etc. Fascinating family.
I don’t like IVF reduction anyway, so think this is a bit of a garbage article.
Is there a relationship between IQ and happiness? I’d bet people with higher than average IQ commit suicide at greater rates than those below average. Ignorance is bliss as they say. I could be wrong.
For $50k, you too could bring another Charlie Manson into the world!
If the kid becomes a leftist or a Springsteen fan, do you get your money back?
In future, he speculated, the offering might be extended to include personality types, including providing scores for what he called the “dark triad” traits. Dark triad is normally a reference to machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. Christensen said it might also be possible to develop scores for depression and creativity. “Beauty is something lots of people actually ask about,” he added.
When contacted for comment, Heliospect said it would not condone industrial-scale egg or embryo production or elite selection and that it did not plan to offer testing for “dark triad” traits or beauty.
Among the firm’s senior staff is the academic Jonathan Anomaly, who has caused controversy after defending what he describes as “liberal eugenics”. A former Oxford University fellow who left an academic post in Ecuador last year to work full-time at Heliospect, Anomaly says he has advised the company on media strategy and helped recruit investors and clients based in the US and Europe.
Anomaly is a well-known figure in a growing transatlantic movement that promotes development of genetic selection and enhancement tools, which he says should not be confused with coercive state-sponsored eugenics. “All we mean by [liberal eugenics] is that parents should be free and maybe even encouraged to use technology to improve their children’s prospects once it’s available,” he told the podcast The Dissenter.
There is a crescendoing set of triplets echoing through heaven as The Boss has His patience pushed to the limit.
The Coyote always used acne, and wound up screwed when he tried to catch the Road Runner. /rimshot
Ummmm - IQ is determined by testing of mental acuity and knowledge...even identical twins can have a significant gap in IQ based on a number of other factors...
Socialists self selecting out of gene pool.
Cool!
Hey, if the Demoncrats want abortion on demand why should this shock anyone? This reminds me of the tactic the Nazis would have used to ensure their “Master Race”.
Not to worry ... they'll find an "ethicist" to say it's all peachy-keen.