Unwanted by Linda Smith is a profound real life page turner! It describes an initially reluctant mother’s battle to champion the existence of her disabled son. Put yourself in her shoes What if your child was born, and the doctor grimly pronounced the baby “mongoloid?” Then declared it profoundly disabled...
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The Last Children of Down Syndrome Are we approaching a time when we will see the last children of Down Syndrome? This shocking article, in the December 2020 issue of The Atlantic Magazine, looks at the possibility of Down Syndrome extinction. Medical advances (e.g. prenatal testing, new genetic therapies), are...
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New Words For Effects Of Certain Gene Therapies I have started to use the following terms in describing the purpose and/or effects of several emerging gene therapies I will be covering in my upcoming public essay about potential Down Syndrome extinction. #Genomocide #Genexocide #Genvivocide Claiming First Use Today I secured...
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There’s always been questions about the ethics of working in genetics. Jobs in the field are multiplying because of new advances. This brings up additional questions about the morality of it all. Bioethicists are agog. DNA and its moderating processes are, indisputably, the stuff that programs our biology. Sure we’re learning...
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Truly inspiring people are something of a rarity. So when I read about Charlotte Helene Fien, a young woman who has both Down Syndrome and Autism, is attending university, and advocates for neuro-atypical human rights, I was deeply moved. Watch this courageous fighter address the United Nations in Geneva, pleading...
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Saw the above question on Quora this morning. Here’s my reply to this general inquiry. The answer to this question depends on all sorts of variables. For example… Which audiences do you intend to reach? Are they large (e.g. the general public), or smaller and specific (e.g. biochemists working on genomics)....
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Mini-Copters To The Rescue? To soar like an eagle over traffic jams. Sounds like a Utopian dream. This concept works beautifully — until there’s more than one of these gyro birdies flying over a city. Then a few more. Soon hundreds. After that, what, thousands?Congestion on streets with cars is...
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Predictim Halts Launch But Raises Alarms. Who wouldn’t want AI to choose which babysitter you hire? Predictim thought it was such a great idea it staked its business model on it. “Piece of mind for families” is their comforting motto. At Least They’re Honest About Questionable Claims Except their Disclaimer reads...
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My rating: 3 of 5 stars. Sorry. Eloquently argued, though tendentious to the point of screed. Thomas Wolfe eviscerates the theories of Charles Darwin (evolution based on natural selection) and Noam Chomsky (linguistics as an innate language acquisition device that produces a universal grammar). An Informative Lecture I love how...
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NEEDED A MOCKUP JUST TO SEE HOW IT MIGHT LOOK So…my first experience with a cover designer on Fiverr. In one word: bleh. In good part it was my fault, because I was in a hurry and didn’t want to spend more than $150 Cdn total for all four unique...
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