re: #672 Mr Secul

You asked whether anyone currently practices eugenics and I answered. If you believe that choice of sex is not at least in part based on notion that men are somehow superior, then I think you misread culture.

As for where I heard about sonogramsw being used, it was on a 60 Minutes or 20/20 report probably 15 years ago. I would assume that amnio would be used today, but sonograms were confirmed. Do I think we should get rid of amnio or sonograms? No. My wife and I used them ourselves and found them comforting.

If you think I am a technophobe, you are wrong. If it were up to me there would be an atom smasher under every high school. I often criticised Michael Creighton’s fiction as being technophobic. Is there any other lingering questions you have about my outlook?

re: #677 Hhar

One point about evolution that Stove makes is that in Darwin’s formulation is explicitly based on the Malthusean argument. Populations increase up to their food supply. It is one of the few scientific theories that looks to a political economic theory.