Rubbish. Eugenics is the science of improving human characteristics through selective breeding. That it is immoral and cruel doesn’t take away from that fact.

When people talk about Science like it’s an inherent good. This.

Right? 10% estimated effectiveness. Last year’s effectiveness was also pretty low for what they estimated. Pharma companies pimp their flu vaccine with vigor and using sales tactics and marketing to do so. Everyone follows along and says “Yes! We must do this!” Yet any other product that would be so ineffective at…

Shut the fuck up. You Gizmodo armchair experts keep spewing this bullshit. You ACTUALLY think EVERY single person getting the flu is because someone else didn’t get the shot? The shot that works at best 10% of the time. Wise up.

At 10% effectiveness, there is literally no population coverage percentage that will provide any herd immunity to the flu.

She didn’t select the embryo because it was 24 years old, she selected it because it had the biological profile they wanted. The fact that it was 24 years old and was a medical record did not matter in the decision making process.

How many actual children could that money have saved?

There was a ton of money, research, resources and risk to make sure you could get a boner on command with a single blue pill.

Yes exactly. There is no way that this pioneering medical breakthrough could ever have any significance to a wider population.

with several prior live births having successfully taken place at Sweden’s Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. Transplant surgeon Liza Johannesson, who was part of the Baylor Scott & White team, was involved in the first womb transplants in Sweden.

Except for the fact that almost every new type of procedure helps other procedures get developed more. This is a fairly complex procedure that helps strengthen medicine as a whole, too. As continued successes are had it gets cheaper and medical knowledge gets stronger on transplants, women’s reproduction, etc.

For me what worked was understanding when it starts. When start to feel pain behind an eyeball, it’s time for common over the counter pain medicine (also, not all work). When pain has spread to half of the head, it’s too late.

History is my bag, and it requires that you develop a thick skin to the unpleasant. Massacres, tortures, raping and pillaging, there is not a corner of this world untouched by such horrors.

But there is something about the Nazis. Something so clean and simple and efficient. A polished machine for the extermination of…

It’s not just that they knew. The Holocaust didn’t happen against the will of the Germans; it was the will of the German people. It was the Volk who turned on their neighbors, beat them and looted their stores, preached about the evil of Jews in Sunday services and classrooms, even before Hitler had authoritarian…

So why does Germany have the second-largest Jewish population in Europe, and eighth-largest in the world, today? Yes, of course the German people were in on the Holocaust, but so would have been the people of any other country if it had happened there. You can tell because similar things have happened, with various…

the fact that a lot of the population (who weren’t necessarily nazi supporters but didn’t want to die by speaking up) were unaware

We don’t say that the Great War was merely a war instigated and lead by Royal Germany. 

If you study your history properly you will learn that first people to be sent to Auschwitz were Polish.

I’m not entirely sure I understand what your point is here. On the one hand, yes, it’s important to remember that the entire country pretty much knew what the Nazis were doing and they were fine with it, despite what certain bullshit retellings would have you believe. These retellings, notably, are rarely German,…