Good news- Spectrum 10k study has been postponed

I only just learned about the study from this post, but... and I know this will be controversial, but isn't greater understanding of autism a good thing for us? I understand the fears about eugenics, but so far as I know there isn't any technology sophisticated enough to choose what genes to "turn off" before birth. The closest I'm aware of is something called CRISPR, but from documentaries I've seen on the subject it cannot be used to make any kind of genetic selections about something like autism, or any form of learning disability or personality trait.

I'm happy to be corrected by anyone more educated than me on this, but as someone with a lot of issues associated with my diagnosis of autism spectrum I only feel disappointed. 

They won't turn off the genes before birth, they'll just terminate pregnancies that would result in autistic children, just like they do with tests for other disabilities.

Which is a good thing, surely? If parents feel strongly enough that they don't want an autistic child that they're willing to terminate and start over, it would be child abuse to force an autistic child to grow up in that family.

Forget the "racism" for a moment. I was born in the sixties, I've made a hell of a lot of adjustments to my attitudes that were taught to me over the years, and remember my friend (who's had 30 years of my way of thinking) invited me to his wedding... I refuse to accept or promote lies be they from fascists of old or the WEF thought leaders of today.

Simple economics says if you keep bunging extra mouths to feed into a deeply unproductive economy, something will break.

And this myth of the new arrivals being somehow "premium people" only holds up amongst those of my white brethren who haven't gone out and immersed themselves as far as possible into social or business interactions with those of other cultures. Most people who call me "racist" have less "other race" long term friends than I do... 

And to be fair, I've recently been watching a heck of a lot of 1970's sitcoms with a friend both for entertainment and also to analyse the social programming that the writers incorporated to help get us where we are now... They are designed to skew your thinking as well as amuse, (that's one reason why the entertainment industry is awash with money and I probably lapsed into a more 70's writing style.)

And that concludes the statement for the defence your honours..

Forget the "racism" for a moment. I was born in the sixties, I've made a hell of a lot of adjustments to my attitudes that were taught to me over the years, and remember my friend (who's had 30 years of my way of thinking) invited me to his wedding... I refuse to accept or promote lies be they from fascists of old or the WEF thought leaders of today.

Simple economics says if you keep bunging extra mouths to feed into a deeply unproductive economy, something will break.

And this myth of the new arrivals being somehow "premium people" only holds up amongst those of my white brethren who haven't gone out and immersed themselves as far as possible into social or business interactions with those of other cultures. Most people who call me "racist" have less "other race" long term friends than I do... 

And to be fair, I've recently been watching a heck of a lot of 1970's sitcoms with a friend both for entertainment and also to analyse the social programming that the writers incorporated to help get us where we are now... They are designed to skew your thinking as well as amuse, (that's one reason why the entertainment industry is awash with money and I probably lapsed into a more 70's writing style.)

And that concludes the statement for the defence your honours..