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DNA Vaccine Sterilizes Mice, Could Lead To One-Shot Birth Control For Cats, Dogs
sciencehabit writes: Animal birth control could soon be just a shot away. A new injection makes male and female mice infertile by tricking their muscles into producing hormone-blocking antibodies. If the approach works in dogs and cats, researchers say, it could be used to neuter and spay pets and to control reproduction in feral animal populations. A similar approach could one day spur the development of long-term birth control options for humans.
"think of the harbles!"
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...cats and dogs... why do i suddenly have flashbacks to the "vaccine" guns from X-Men: The last stand...?
Next up: Cure for overpopulation found...
I am endowed like a stallion.
What could possible go wrong? Did some government police state / apocalyptic scenarios run through anyone else's minds when they read that?
This should be given to all welfare recipients and their dependents. Immediately.
Wasn't it the dream of a certain South African doctor to create a virus that could sterilize the entire black population?
Reminds me of the virus in Mass Effect that sterilizes the planet of warrior race.
When the smart machines and robots take away the human jobs and we won't need billions of humans, would this be used?
Seems there is a few humans that could do with similar treatment.
Liberals! ... Conservatives! ... (depending on which koolaid drinking faction you ask the response will change)
Short form: instant castration and spaying
Long form: Just have a mass-injection program to implement a dictator's "final solution."
A similar approach could one day spur the development of long-term birth control options for humans.
tricking their muscles into producing hormone-blocking antibodies
Hormone-inhibiting? Sounds like this one is literally for the dogs.
Let's hope Israel employs it ASAP in self-defense...
They need it.
> A new injection makes male and female mice infertile by tricking their muscles into producing hormone-blocking antibodies [...] control reproduction in feral animal populations [...] similar approach could one day spur the development of long-term birth control options for humans [...]
Not sure how I feel about that. Part of me is going hey cool, technology! Part of me is going, wait, didn't I see that movie in the 1970's? I seem to recall it didn't end well.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Because what good is being rich if there aren't plenty of poor for you to enjoy. Hell, look at the Scandinavian countries, they're doing public service announcements begging their population to breed. They've tried everything except paying people enough to raise a family on comfort...
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They see women as good for only wombs and want to force them at the threat of prison to have babies. That is the way of their kind. They hate us and want us to die. Want us to die.
Humans...
shot away shot away
"Aschen Vaccine Causes...causes...what does this word mean?"
"Sterility."
"Oh, shit...not again..."
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The White Plague.
From TFA: "engineered a piece of DNA that - when packaged inside inactive virus shells and injected..."
I swear the scientists said almost the exact same thing in the movie "I am Legend"... and it caused the zombie apocalypse.
Two things seem to always come back around:
Malthus and eugenics.
Now that technology has advanced, where important revolutionaries can be dispatched easily, combined with the attitude of people about not giving a rat's ass about anyone else, I wouldn't be surprised to see a nation starting a sterilization/euthanization plan for their populace. With modern technology (i.e. some planes with Sarin gas containers and some "soldiers" with some basic small arms), the chance of a people's revolution would be zilch.
With all this in place, I'm not going to be surprised to see this happen. Perhaps it is some gene that shows someone to be of a certain race, so the entire population of a country has to go through a medical office, get DNA tested, then walk through one of three doors: The exit (if no DNA exists), the room with a nurse injecting sterilization drugs, or the room with the euthanization cocktails that feeds into a nearby retort.
No doubt certain racist groups will jump up and down and clap their hands in glee at the thought of being able to permanently sterilize certain peoples with just a simple injection. Theoretically a dart gun could be used.
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"A similar approach could one day spur the development of long-term birth control options for humans." Oh, wouldn't Margaret Sanger have loved this when she started that abortion milling organization. She could have single handed wiped out the black population, as she wanted, in a couple generations. On blacks, immigrants and indigents: "...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people On sterilization & racial purification: Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech. On the right of married couples to bear children: Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932 On the purpose of birth control: The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2) On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities: "More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
Oh, well in that case, I'll stop looking into Vasalgel & RISUG then...
Thanks but no thanks, I'd rather not be actually infertile
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It's effortless to get the snip, then you don't have to worry if the doc does it right where it's non reversible. I.E. he snaps the vas, seals the ends then folds them back 1/2 an inch back on themselves and uses basically a surgical ziptie to hold them there. there is ZERO chance of the Vas reconnecting.
Real men get their Vas snipped. You do not "need" to have any more kids.
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Let's hope Israel employs it ASAP in self-defense...
They already try to induce abortions in heavily pregnant Palestinian women by keeping them in hot cars at checkpoints for several hours at a stretch.
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The scientists who devised this are fucking morons. Releasing this into the wild without the thought of what could happen if it got into some other vector could be disastrous for all forms of life. An infertility plague. The scientists need a swift kick in the their tender bits followed by an afternoon of electro-convulsive therapy. There are way simpler ways to sterilize a pet without the risk of a catastrophe. Furthermore you will have some politician thinking its a good idea to infect the general population with it. If they can justify radiation experiments and those syphilis experiments they would absolutely look into doing this. Many governments are top heavy with sociopaths.
The thing with spading and neutering is that, especially in male animals, their normal aggressive behavior goes away immediately after the procedure. I've watched neutered lions and bears playing with a woman that owns an animal sanctuary before. I couldn't believe how docile they were but then I realized it was largely because they had no balls--literally (although the dangers are still always present).
I would just wonder if this "shot" would also result in the same behavior modifications, or no?
Eugenicist psychopaths could dispense special flu vaccines with this sterilant mixed in to targeted neighborhoods
Nothing else to say... It's bad.
we will likely face starvation. While all the sci-fi apocalypses referenced by others are real possibilities due to gene jumping through common bacteria, a more immediate issue may be the food supply. It seems likely that all animal husbandry will fail, and that there will be virtually no supply of beef, pork, chicken, milk, eggs, butter. etc. Feeding our sterile species and dealing with the plagues of BILLIONS of dead animals world wide won't be pretty.
So arm up some guys with dart guns and run around shooting stray cats. Obviously they would get shirts that say "professional pussy hunter." You can actually get those on ebay already.
I think this is a good premise for a new scifi film like "Children of Men" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt02....
You know, virus gets out, most of the world loses the ability to have children.
Come on, what could possibly go wrong?
The real fun begins when some of that DNA gets picked up by an E. Coli.
... Does it work on muslims?
At the present rate of Islamic Invasion into Europe, it sure looks like the Christians gonna be wiped out!
Yes, I am aware that pigeons are birds and therefor a different domain as mammals, and that there might be some differences in the biochemistry here, but I hope they work something out to get those flying rats under control.
Time to stop democrats from breeding and spewing their nonsense of globalism and fairness among idiots.
Invoking autoimmune disorders sounds like a poor idea in pets, and a nightmare in humans. That's what this is. And that's before you get to the possibility that you could absolutely have a future organization that has the desire to eliminate human births, but doesn't have the will to kill humans (and also, that would get them stopped faster), so they use a tech like this. The fact that it's being developed doesn't mean that will happen, but the fact that it's possible should be at least a bit scary.
For humans, you say? I think Captain Reynolds said it best, so I'll just leave it to him...
That means catching all the animals and injecting them. If one is going to spend that much effort, why not just kill them? This immediately reduces the pressure on the food supply, the environment, and the damage to man-made objects. When this is available in oral form, it may be an effective control for feral animal populations.
Where do many feral animals come from? Irresponsible owners. I was involved in animal rescue for while, which has its own problems as it is run self-absorbed tree-huggers but the real issue is the tendency for common people to treat a cat, or sometimes a dog, as toys. Such white-trash type people decide they need a pet and get a baby cat for free. They don't get it de-sexed or chipped as required for cats. The cat produces kittens which, in an act of further irresponsibility, they give away. So the cycle repeats and there is an endless supply of unwanted cats.
Compulsory sterilization has been used on humans before, in some countries. Such a vaccine allows sterilization to be performed secretly; the plot of a few stories.
Then there are countries who refuse to sterilize the brain-damaged or the mentally ill, guaranteeing more welfare babies. There's no right to motherhood, if she's not allowed to keep the baby. So the government butts-out and allows a woman to injure her child, or it butts-in and prevents pregnancy. The current welfare practice just dumps a 16-year long problem on the taxpayer.
Let's not look at things in isolation... ...Do you NOW see what was wrong with Mandatory Vaccinations?
"The spooge must flow"?
The only thing that could go wrong with this is... everything.
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"Scientists Invent New Way for Humanity to Destroy Itself" A few possibilities that come to mind are: - Using the vaccine against someone someone doesn't like. Arabs, Palestinians, blacks, Hindus, Israelis, White men in golf shirts. - Adding it other vaccines - only in certain selected areas of course. - Inadvertent contamination, intentional or not - genetic modification to include into food, etc. - release of the carrier virus into the wild using a common vector - Work begins immediately on an oral form