{"id":3898,"date":"2013-07-11T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2014-10-09T18:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:54:40","slug":"ebook-future-human-evolution-eugenics-in-the-twenty-first-century-john-glad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2013\/07\/ebook-future-human-evolution-eugenics-in-the-twenty-first-century-john-glad\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century (John Glad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found here: http:\/\/whatwemaybe.org\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/whatwemaybe.org\/txt\/txt0000\/glad.john.2006.future_human_evolution.book.full.003k.en.pdf<\/p>\n<p>The homepage is really weird, but the book turned out to be&#8230; pretty good. At first I was not impressed, especially because he went into insufficient details with the <em>g<\/em> factor and stuff related to that. But really <em>g<\/em> factor or not, is somewhat unrelated to eugenics. It contains some interesting quotes too. Here&#8217;s two of them:<\/p>\n<p>We do our utmost to check the process of elimination;<br \/>\nwe build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the<br \/>\nsick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert<br \/>\ntheir utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last<br \/>\nmoment\u2026. Thus the weak members of civilized socie-<br \/>\nties propagate their kind. No one who has attended to<br \/>\nthe breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this<br \/>\nmust be highly injurious to the race of man. (Darwin)<\/p>\n<p>Democracy demands that all of its citizens begin the race even.<br \/>\nEgalitarianism insists that they all finish even.<br \/>\nRoger Price, \u201cThe Great Roob Revolution\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I recommend reading this book for its focus on eugenics history, and why it is not quite how we were told in Nazi Germany. There was a lot I didn&#8217;t know there. Richard Lynn&#8217;s 2001 book on the same topic is also worth reading. It is more dry, but goes more into detail about the methods.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I still think we should employ population wide, state funded (to make sure the poor can do it too), non-coercive (because I don&#8217;t trust states to do this properly) methods using not sterilization, but embryo selection, selective abortion (more than we do now), germ-line genetic engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found here: http:\/\/whatwemaybe.org\/ http:\/\/whatwemaybe.org\/txt\/txt0000\/glad.john.2006.future_human_evolution.book.full.003k.en.pdf The homepage is really weird, but the book turned out to be&#8230; pretty good. At first I was not impressed, especially because he went into insufficient details with the g factor and stuff related to that. But really g factor or not, is somewhat unrelated to eugenics. It contains some interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1691,1912,1067],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-eugenics","tag-eugenics-genetics","tag-review","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}