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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...
What could possible go wrong? Did some government police state / apocalyptic scenarios run through anyone else's minds when they read that?
Short form: instant castration and spaying
Long form: Just have a mass-injection program to implement a dictator's "final solution."
> 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.
This should be given to all welfare recipients and their dependents. Immediately.
I could not disagree more. Just because someone is down on their luck now does not mean they won't get back up. BTW, I agree that people should make babies unless they are able to provide for them (but I don't trust any organization to determine eligibility).
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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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.
"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
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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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
This is /. so nobody is expecting you to read the article. But could you perhaps try to read all the way to the end of the one paragraph summary?
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or the room with the euthanization cocktails that feeds into a nearby soylent factory.
FTFY
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
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.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
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.
That is not how evolution work. If one can breed lots of babies and make them someone else problem that is the trait that will be selected.
The only solution is to not care about someone else children. And if they can't feed them, then they should die from starvation. Feeding the poor is just bad as 'determine eligibility'. Let nature determine eligibility.
If you are too soft to let stranger's children die then accept welfare recipient sterilisation. It is, after all, the humane thing to do. Personally I think that, like everything that is 'the humane thing to do', are more bad than good. But I am not the one moved by hungry children.
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.
People who suggest forced stelization should be sterilized. Oh wait...
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.
To mods: That's a big bang theory reference that's in another story on today's front page.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
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.
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
Oops, I made a typo (but I hope people recognize what I wanted to say). It happens when your brain is faster than your hands.
This should be given to all welfare recipients and their dependents. Immediately.
I could not disagree more. Just because someone is down on their luck now does not mean they won't get back up. BTW, I agree that people should NOT make babies unless they are able to provide for them (but I don't trust any organization to determine eligibility).
That is not how evolution work. If one can breed lots of babies and make them someone else problem that is the trait that will be selected.
That is not how evolution works. Any time an individual breeds, their genes are propagated to the next generation, but that does not exclude other individuals with conflicting genes from also contributing to the gene pool. As an example, take a look at hair color. Obviously different people have different preferences as to their mate's hair color. Since it is not only blondes who procreate, other hair colors will remain in the gene pool. Furthermore, the trait you are addressing (having a knack of making one's offspring someone else's responsibility) does not manifest itself until after one has already procreated. It is similar to male pattern baldness which normally kicks in after most are already married. Additionally, I would argue that taking abusing the welfare system is a learned trait, and not something genetically transferred to the next generation.
The only solution is to not care about someone else children. And if they can't feed them, then they should die from starvation. Feeding the poor is just bad as 'determine eligibility'. Let nature determine eligibility.
That is too harsh. You need to distinguish between a family going through a bad patch of a few years and a third-generation recipient of welfare. A better solution would be to put the children in some else's custody at least temporarily. The children have committed no sin to deserve to suffer such dire consequences of their parents' actions.
If you are too soft to let stranger's children die then accept welfare recipient sterilisation. It is, after all, the humane thing to do. Personally I think that, like everything that is 'the humane thing to do', are more bad than good. But I am not the one moved by hungry children.
I want something like this very badly. Sorry women, but I don't trust any of you when it comes to birth control.
I've for sterilizing them. If they work hard and are successful, let them do in-vitro.
Do you know how in-vitro works? In vitro just means that they combine eggs and sperm in a petridish then implant the fertilized eggs into the uterus. This sterilization vaccine causes men to no longer produce viable sperm. The only way to reproduce would involve cloning or direct gene splicing.