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Designer Baby Given Go-ahead
An anonymous reader writes "A couple in the Australian city of Melbourne has been given the legal go ahead to breed a genetically modified 'designer' baby to cure their terminally ill child."
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Yeah, damn straight. The world would definitely be a better place if people with an IQ below 80 were legally required to be sterilized so they can't have stupid children.
As a side note, it has been conclusively proven that there is a very high correlation between genetics and intelligence, even though the number of genes involved is far too complicated to isolate any specific culprits thus far. Studies have shown that identical twins almost always have an IQ within 5 points of each other. The variation among fraternal twins is a bit larger, and among siblings it's a bit larger, and among unrelated people it is even larger. The identical twins statistic alone proves nothing because of the confounding variable of the environment, but the dramatic progression from identical to fraternal to regular siblings is incontrovertible evidence for my point.
Repeal the DMCA!