Under The Guise Of ‘Preventative Medicine’ For IVF, Eugenics Is Back

The Federalist ^ | June 06, 2025 | John Daniel Davidson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The libertarian tech bros creating neo-eugenics startups seem totally unaware of the moral monstrosities they are conjuring up.

Most people are familiar with eugenics as a disturbing and morally repugnant artifact from the past, something we associate with Nazi experiments and racial pseudo-science. But it’s making a comeback in our time thanks to new branding and new technology. Call it neo-eugenics, coming soon to an IVF clinic near you.

The old eugenics was of course the study and practice of shaping a population through selective breeding based on heritable traits deemed desirable, and the sterilization or prohibition on reproduction for those deemed undesirable. In the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, eugenics produced a nasty set of policies, both in the United States and Europe. These policies were eventually discredited and discarded in part because Nazi Germany was big on eugenics. It was official Nazi policy, for example, to identify various groups of German citizens deemed “unfit” and then systematically kill them with poison gas — a practice that turned out to be a precursor to the Holocaust.

But now eugenics is making a comeback thanks to Peter Thiel-inspired libertarian tech-bros who have, no kidding, rebranded it “preventative medicine.” This week, a company called Nucleus Genomics, a genetics testing startup founded by a 25-year-old named Kian Sadeghi, unveiled a new product called Nucleus Embryo that allows parents to screen embryos created through IVF by projected IQ, height, eye color, and hundreds of other traits before deciding which to implant and which to discard.

The company is marketing this new product, which costs $5,999, as “preventative medicine,” a hi-tech health tool that delivers what the company calls “polygenic risk scores,” meant to predict the likelihood of things like Alzheimer’s, heart disease and...

[algore]

Surely this is all for good, Right ?

like bananas we should all want to genetically normalized so a single virus could wipe us out, or possibly maybe just want designer babies to conform to whatever hollywood or bollywood believes is the current beauty ideal should be.

In this rare case, the randomness of diversity/natural selection is actually a strength.

[teeman8r]

have they identified the “gay” gene, so parents can customize their families.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[PGalt]

Interesting. BUMP

[darth]

I am not buying that this is some new push for eugenics.

All of the previous atrocities such as extermination camps, forced sterilization, etc were coercive.

Anybody who selects a mate practices a form of eugenics favoring intelligence, lack of mutations, personality traits, etc.

Some find notsees behind every bush

Of course, I would not waste money on such trivial characteristics. I married an had children with a woman from a family of intelligence and character. Kids turned out great!

[ViLaLuz]

Most people are familiar with eugenics as a disturbing and morally repugnant artifact from the past,
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BALONEY! It never went away, thriving to this day in Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood. PP promotes black genocide.