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2023-02-19 Science & Technology

Poll: 40% of Americans Support Selecting IVF Embryos Based on ‘Intellectual Aptitude'

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-19 02:11|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Was the poll conducted in Lake Wobegone, where I remember all the children were above average?

Posted by Tom 2023-02-19 07:00|| 2023-02-19 07:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Flash to the opening of Idiocracy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-19 10:53|| 2023-02-19 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Thirty-eight percent said they would be willing to screen their embryos during IVF for likely intelligence levels

The other 60-some percent of us are wondering how you screen embryos for intelligence. It's not like the moist little dears can hold a #2 pencil.

Posted by SteveS 2023-02-19 11:01|| 2023-02-19 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 The other 60-some percent of us are wondering how you screen embryos for intelligence. It's not like the moist little dears can hold a #2 pencil.

Done by the same sort of speculative, witch doctor "science" that brings weekly NASA announcements of the discovery of another "habitable planet" 600 million light years away.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-19 11:13|| 2023-02-19 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ or the temperature a million yeas ago or a hundred years from now; or tomorrow.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Posted by AlanC 2023-02-19 11:21|| 2023-02-19 11:21|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not like the moist little dears can hold a #2 pencil.

C’mon, SteveS! It’s IVF — they just hold up a little blackboard in front of the test tube, and the darling thing points to the answer it thinks correct.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-19 11:28|| 2023-02-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Why don't we subject immigrants to an IQ test? That would certainly eliminate a lot of problems.

Posted by Regular joe 2023-02-19 14:46|| 2023-02-19 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 ^^^^^------- THATS RACIST! ! ! !

(/snarc)

Posted by CrazyFool 2023-02-19 16:11|| 2023-02-19 16:11|| Front Page Top

#9 If you believe in God, embryonic Hunger Games is a bad idea for so many reasons. From an agnostic stand point, the Covid vax has proved that science is not always very good. We might end up selecting the exact opposite of what we intend.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-19 19:26|| 2023-02-19 19:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Equity: schools eliminate honors classes

Posted by KBK 2023-02-19 19:27|| 2023-02-19 19:27|| Front Page Top

#11 In turnaround, finally the West
Pays attention to feelings of guests:
Shamefaced nations to nose
Out supremacist woes
With new IMMIGRANT racism test!

Posted by Goober Gliter5684 2023-02-19 19:36|| 2023-02-19 19:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Release the microexpression expert hounds! [Hanna-Barbera TSA spot here]

Posted by Goober Gliter5684 2023-02-19 19:45|| 2023-02-19 19:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Fleagle or Scooby?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-19 20:45|| 2023-02-19 20:45|| Front Page Top

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