Le coppie di fecondazione in vitro nel Regno Unito utilizzano una scappatoia legale per classificare gli embrioni in base al potenziale QI, altezza e salute
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/06/uk-ivf-couples-use-legal-loophole-rank-embryos-iq-height-health?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
di topotaul
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I wonder how long it’ll be until those parents try to sue if the ‘profile’ doesn’t match reality
I am jack’s complete lack of suprise that it’s a US company aiding people to do eugenics.
get what you’re given, shit situation but you’re in no position to be picky above everyone else
It’s the eventual way things will go
We already let people terminate based on the health of the baby.
Why wouldn’t you want to ensure positive traits that will improve your child’s life?
Ultimately people are only uncomfortable about it because they didn’t get it. People of the past got whatever good gave them. Babies of the future might get more and that’s upsetting to some
I have never heard any argument against pre-birth eugenics that is rational and not emotional.
Is it a bad thing? We’ve got enough idiots roaming the streets, this might balance it out a bit.
I’m just glad its an American company, so the results will probably be wrong 75% of the time.
Honestly this sounds like a good thing. Do people not want a society with more healthy intelligent citizens?
I have a really hard time believing that selecting between embryos coming from the same two genetic sources would have anything more than like a 1% impact on future intelligence.
6 IQ points for £37k is a bit fucking desperate. who gives a shit if your kid gets an A instead of an A*, if you can afford that you’re likely already paying for the best education money can buy anyway, and you’re likely well connected enough that you’ll be able to get your kid a job even if they’re thick as mince
Most evidence these days shows IQ isn’t entirely genetic too, so an increase that small could entirely be down to parents being able to afford private tutors and schools
I would encourage anyone in this thread wondering what the potential issue with a practice like this is to watch the 1997 film GATTACA. It’s pretty middling overall, but it envisions a world where this is common practice and has some really thought-provoking ideas. It’s often cited as a film which crystallised people’s viewpoint on the matter and is pretty much required viewing among geneticists if for no other reason than to understand why so many people are uneasy about it.
Since the dawn of time mankind has yearned to make Gattaca a reality
I imagine the paperwork they have to sign has about 20 thousand words of disclaimers and agreements not to sue them.
Yes your honor, I’m in court today because my son George Issac Mark Albert Michael Ernest Jones is well shit…”
We’re already balls deep into fucking up the natural order of Earth, causing a mass extinction. I don’t really see how this could make anything any worse.
When you pay for plastic surgery so your kids get a leg up to the A list (Kate Middleton, Bella Hadid, Kardashians, Blake Lively etc…)
I suppose this is just the next step in the wealthy making sure their kids have every advantage.
The IQ bit doesn’t seem to be working, I think there having people on.