Medical Fascism alert

Fascism is alive and well, and telling you how to live.


Thinking twice about Health Checkups.

yes, those "remember your yearly health checkup" propaganda we have listened to for years is now being questioned. Why? Maybe to save the government money.

the problem? The study is a Cochrane "garbage in/garbage out" study.

Here is another garbage study in the NYTimes: If Intelligence is the norm, stupidity gets more interesting.

this is talking about finding the genome for intelligence, but says instead we should be looking for the genome for stupidity. 

Actually, the world's IQ is getting better, because we are now better nourished and no longer have low IQ's due to protein malnutrition starving children's growing brains.

But the study implies scientists are trying to find what genes to screen for, presumably so they can stop those with the wrong genes from being born.

Then we have article says that we need the government to "help us chose" a good diet, or we'll all be fat.

In the Fight against obesity, drink size matters.

ah, but what if obesity is due to plastics in our diet? Why not regulate big business instead? Or Gaia's way to get us fat so we don't starve to death in a future famine?
 
full rant on my XangaBlog.

but if you really want to worry, try this one:

Two modern "ethicists" who believe in infanticide etc. are now penning books saying they want to teach us ethics.

Our knowledge of human biology – in particular of genetics and neurobiology – is beginning to enable us to directly affect the biological or physiological bases of human motivation, either through drugs, or through genetic selection or engineering, or by using external devices that affect the brain or the learning process. We could use these techniques to overcome the moral and psychological shortcomings that imperil the human species. We are at the early stages of such research, but there are few cogent philosophical or moral objections to the use of specifically biomedical moral enhancement – or moral bioenhancement. In fact, the risks we face are so serious that it is imperative we explore every possibility of developing moral bioenhancement technologies – not to replace traditional moral education, but to complement it.

Ah, brave new world that has such people in it!