Showing posts with label genetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genetics. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

Dr. Frankenstein & Stem Cell Science & Geneticists & Civil Rights Protection

Here's a question that maybe not many have asked? Given that stem cell research around the world may come up with wonder drugs that can delay aging, enhance face lifts,lessen the chance of contracting a deadly disease or a disease that can horribly alter a persons ability to live a normal life.Does that treatment or drug etc enjoy an immediate right of equal prescription benefit? Does the Civil Rights Act cover people who elect to try this stem cell alchemy? What if there are side effects that make the person odd? Odd in the sense of looks, way of thinking, habits etc?Can casual observers legally comment or deny a relationship with odd individuals because of Civil Rights Protection? More odd than already entitled transgender freaks. Can odd or Frankenstein- stem-cell- fiddled people marry and have their alchemical-stem-cell-fiddled-offspring-be entitled to new race protected status and a new culture beyond same sex marriage?You might say odd people already marry and may be both hetero or homosexual baseline. That's true but I was asking about drug related homos or hetero stem cell altered individuals.Because labs can produce infinitely more variety of odd balls/monsters.Did LBJ and Congress ask this question before producing the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Friday, August 15, 2008

Rare Consensus On African Americans

Yesterday Jack O' Connell , California Superintendant Of Public Instruction declared, "The education of African-American students has reached a crisis stage. Scores of that group remained well below [for years] those of White, Asian-American and Latino."

Mr. O'Connell makes it unanimous. He is joined by white supremacists, bigots and black demagogues and everyone in between. They all agree on this sorry fact. It's actually a rare example of consensus in America. But the reasons for that fact differs widely when one asks a supremacist or one asks a black demagogue. The former blames genetics while the latter blames everthing else but genetics.

But the opinions of the reasons are really beside the point. The question should be what do we do about the fact. Facts can't be ignored. Or better put, facts can be ignored but only at great risk. I think that people who can't learn or wont learn should lose privileges. In this case students who chronically fall behind and stay there should be expelled from school . Serious and capable students should not be distracted by students who just take up space or worse in the classroom. The expelled students can then seek work or break the law. That's their choice. But at least the classroom will be safe from their negative pollution.