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Taohumor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No they acknowledge that the technology could be used that way. But there’s a lot of actual medical problems we can catch this way. Imagine you carry the Huntington’s gene. How much would you pay to make sure you don’t pass that down to your kids?

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, but nobody here is suggesting racial criteria. This article is specifically about screening for health issues. Reading more into it, it seems like they’ve paired big data with genetic screening to lay odds on health problems that aren’t just a single gene going the wrong way.

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This isn’t Eugenics.

        There’s a debate about that ongoing, whether the word and basic idea can be divorced from its start in scientific racism. I don’t really have a skin in the game but would like to point out that psychiatry didn’t cease to be called psychiatry when we stopped physically abusing inmates, showing them off to gawkers, whatnot, got rid of phrenology, etc. You can make arguments both for “we must start from a clean slate” as well as “let’s own the bullshit of the past to have something to teach students to not do”.

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  • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s still eugenics, you just used more words to describe it.

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eugenics isn’t inherently bad, but humans suck and will make it bad.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. Eugenics is race theory as much as it’s anything scientific. It was about making sure the “correct” races had children. I don’t know what the name this is in science but Eugenics isn’t about making kids healthier, it’s about making them whiter.

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      • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No that’s literally what it means:

        The practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the populations’ genetic composition

        Science that deals with the improvement of inherited qualities of a race or breed and especially of human beings

        The practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the populations’ genetic composition

        www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eugenics

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• Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They literally say “Word beginning with ‘eu’ and ends with ‘genics’” inside the article pimping them out.

  With a side ‘Orchid doesn’t like us to use that word’ as if ‘Nazis do not like to be called Nazis’ is a valid complaint.

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