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Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining (OPE alert)
Natural Society ^
Posted on 02/18/2013 6:13:51 AM PST by Perdogg
Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some experts believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But there is more to it than that.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: genetics; intelligence
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To: Perdogg
To: Perdogg
Had reproduction required 10 steps, most of the world’s problems would have been avoided. The stupid and the lazy would be extinct.
To: Perdogg
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posted on
02/18/2013 6:58:01 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: knarf
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posted on
02/18/2013 6:59:57 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: Perdogg
Well, I read the article. It really is a pathetic piece. The only rational part was the first section containing quotes from a genuine genetics scientist, then followed by two other sections of gibberish injected by the lay reporter. One of his cited sources was the “Rawstory,” a left wing lunatic rag promoting socialism, homosexuals, and other assorted perverts—truly a raw sewage journal. It was simply the old bait and switch article constructed by a reporter with a political agenda and little understanding of true science.
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:03:04 AM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
To: Perdogg
IQ (intelligence) is for the most part inherited and not equally distributed among human races.
To: broken_arrow1
Obama Voters, teachers' unions, and progressive professors.
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:08:20 AM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: EEGator
Idiocracy was not a film, it’s prophecy.
To: Perdogg
genetics yes but there is also a pronounced local environmental factor in the decline of intelligence...
(or at least, integrity)
just look at the intense concentration in WashDC
To: Perdogg
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:14:02 AM PST
by
GSWarrior
(Do you think Jack White and Jack Black get along?)
To: Perdogg
How can anybody draw any conclusions about intelligence levels when the intelligence hasn’t been allowed to develop with the indoctrination which the liberal school systems have imposed on the children during their most impressionable years, from head-start all the way through college?
Also, when people learn or decide to become dependent, their brains don’t get or need to be exercised or used as much as someone who needs to be out there in the workplace, making decisions day in and day out. What you don’t use you lose, and the brain needs “brain food”, or knowledge and daily challenges, in order to develop and remain active.
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:14:21 AM PST
by
adorno
(Y)
To: EEGator
“I got a solution, you’re a dick....South Carolina, what’s up?”
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:15:13 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Bwando! It’s what plants crave!
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:17:13 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:18:11 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: EEGator; Perdogg
I OWN that movie as an example of where our society actually is. The movie is making the point by going over the top.
It’s real. We really are living in Idiocracy. That the lunacy is propped up as reasonalbe is probably what grates on me the most.
One example: I dumped TV in 1997. When I am exposed to “local” news now in any city, they talk to me like I’m in the sixth grade. Maybe the fifth...
This will leave a mark.
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:21:00 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: dubyagee
It is instructive to read the letters of a Civil War soldier and hold them in comparison to the writings of the average American today. The infantry privates of that era, educated in simple one room schoolhouses on a diet of The Bible, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats and Sir Walter Scott displayed a degree of literacy which surpasses the vast majority of scribblings, tweets, and blogs offered up by today's typical college grad - myself, especially, included.
http://www.civilwararchive.com/LETTERS/letters.htm
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:21:24 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: dfwgator
(gunfire)”That’s what I thought!”
I would actually prefer President Camacho to Obama. At least it would be entertaining.
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02/18/2013 7:21:35 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: CodeJockey
IQ (intelligence) is for the most part inherited and not equally distributed among human races.
Well, that would be unfair, according to Obama and the democrats, therefore, to make things more equal, Obama might propose punishing those with the brighter prospects by forcing them to work harder and produce more, in order to give to the "less advantaged".
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posted on
02/18/2013 7:23:03 AM PST
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adorno
(Y)
To: Perdogg
The law of God, the law of nature is survival of the fittest. Now we have a nanny state taking care of those who would not survive without subsidizing etc. Recently I heard someone say something like “You can’t fix stupid. Though take the obvious warning labels away and stupid will fix itself by process of elimination. heehee”
To: adorno
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had a decent story called Harrison Bergeron. It’s a dystopic future story where they “handicap” people to make everyone equal.
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02/18/2013 7:29:32 AM PST
by
EEGator
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