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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by therealdrag0 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:53PM (#23584949)
Sorry but either why is eugenics a bad word or what type of his eugenics is bad?

I don’t see anything wrong with trying to understanding genes enough to make embryo selections to improve offspring for example.

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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by bJGVygG7MQVF8c on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:02PM (#23586017)
> why is eugenics a bad word

It's not. It's purely media manipulation over the past few years that has some people conditioned to reflexively associate "eugenic" with creeping Nazism.

Consider this, from 2005:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2005/06/02/...

Herman and Chomsky describe this dynamic well in Manufacturing Consent.

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