• 17 Posts
  • 34 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: October 30th, 2023

help-circle











  • Born, unborn you name it.

    Gaza 100 days on: Stop the War on Children

    The killing of 10,000 children. Blasts leading to amputation—sometimes carried out without anaesthetics—and lifelong disabilities. Entire populations, including pregnant women and children, facing hunger, a quarter of them (576,600 people) at catastrophic levels, – that means at the risk of starvation and death. Warnings from the UN children’s agency that nearly 335,000 children under five in the Gaza are at “high risk of severe malnutrition and preventable death”. Thousands of children buried under the rubble and presumed dead.

    The balance sheet of 100 days of war on Gaza is grim. It is a dark moment in history that we see on our television screens.

    “If there is a hell on earth today, its name is northern Gaza,” in the words of one senior UN official.
    (…)






  • Article by The times of Israel (2017):

    Loathed by Jews, Germany’s far-right AfD loves the Jewish state

    Candidates for nationalist Alternative for Germany, derided as anti-Semitic, overwhelmingly profess to hold pro-Israel positions, poll shows

    But, like many far-right parties in Europe and elsewhere, the AfD presents itself as staunchly supportive of Israel.

    According to a wide-ranging poll commissioned by a group promoting German-Israeli relations, most AfD politicians profess to care deeply about Israel’s security, support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, reject unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state, and generally support a stronger relationship between Jerusalem and Berlin.
    Nearly 90% of the 35 AfD members who were surveyed totally or somewhat support Chancellor Angela Merkel’s dictum that “Israel’s security is Germany’s raison d’etre.” Two said they oppose the statement and two had no opinion.

    A quarter of those polled had been to Israel.






  • I don’t understand what you problem is. You act like we disagreed on the definition of eugenics and it’s not the case.

    Anyways if the search term is eugenics definition I get the following:

    1. The study or practice of attempting to improve the human gene pool by encouraging the reproduction of people considered to have desirable traits and discouraging or preventing the reproduction of people considered to have undesirable traits.

    2. The science of generative or procreative development; the doctrine of progress or evolution, especially in the human race, through improved conditions in the relations of the sexes.

    3. The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.

    4. A social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding.

    5. The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating).

    Also, the link I provided is from genome.gov, there one can find a very interesting Fact Sheet. It’s also visible on your screenshot.

    Eugenics and Scientific Racism



  • Eugenics is several things, including what you mention. Apart from that It looks like you missed my point which was:
    racist scientists often get in the field of the coding DNA research

    I will try using the words of the National Human Genome Research Institute with an example:

    Eugenics: Its Origin and Development (1883 - Present)

    Timeline 1994 - The Bell Curve and modern concerns about a resurgence of eugenics
    Richard Hernstein and Charles Murray published The Bell Curve which promoted historical eugenic arguments. These authors argued that genetics determined intelligence and social mobility in American society and that genetics caused African American and Europeans Americans to have different IQ scores


  • To my understanding DNA doesn’t work as it is portrayed in mass media. We have coding DNA and non-coding DNA. Scientists had the nerve to call the non-coding DNA “Junk DNA” even tho it consists of 99% of the DNA. This percentage is disputed but it’s always a huge percentage. The non-coding DNA has the crucial role to take input from the environment and decides what is going to be coded. In media when they talk about DNA they just talk about coding DNA.

    Even tho eugenics is not a department in medical schools anymore, racist scientists often get in the field of the coding DNA research, focusing heritage, undermining in anyway they can the input of the environment, the non-coding DNA.

    Here is an relevant article: Multiple sclerosis: Are there genetic causes?

    Both genetic and environmental factors play a role in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), which is an autoimmune disease.

    Some diseases are purely genetic, which means a person will get the disease if they inherit one or two copies of a specific gene. MS is not genetic in this way.