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Subject: Re: Is genetic research too far?
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 16:29:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 25 16:29:32 1984
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<> Some of this discussion reminds me of  Kornbluth's  story  The
Marching  Morons, in which medicine has so negated the effects of
natural  selection  that  the  faster-breeding  ninnies   rapidly
outstripped the few people who prefer thinking and reading to sex
(Yes, hurray for our side :-}).  The few people with  any  brains
left  devoted their lives to making things as easy as possible on
the demented majority.  The Little Black Bag is another story  in
this  vein,  in which physicians use a black bag designed so even
an idiot can operate the instruments, mainly because the vast ma-
jority  of  physicians (at this period in the future, I hasten to
add, lest I find myself on an operating table with someone saying
"So YOU'RE dgary@ecsvax!") are in fact morons.

D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-4146
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