The shocking news that a team of scientists working in China have managed to gene-edit the DNA of recently-born human twins to allegedly make them genetically immune to a HIV infection is more than bizarre and irresponsible. It suggests that certain researchers are making dangerous experiments to create ultimately the eugenics master dream—custom-designed humans. I …
Continue reading China’s Golem Babies: There is Another Agenda
A Chinese scientist claims to be the first person to genetically engineer babies. According to Professor He Jiankui, he used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to make it so that two twin girls were born immune to HIV, justifying his unconfirmed but nevertheless ultra-controversial actions on the basis of wanting to be a trailblazer and …
Continue reading “Designer Babies” Could Lead to “Super Cyborg” and Bioweapons Arms Races
Critics are perhaps too quick to judge America’s young people, citing declining SAT scores, obesity, drug overdoses, addiction to smart phones, bizarre alterations of personal appearance and high rates of (alleged) mental illness. It’s just too easy to be annoyed at how some of the cashiers at the local grocery store seem unable to carry …
Continue reading What America has Done to its Young People is Appalling
A film producer told me a story recently. It was about an experiment with high-school kids from disadvantaged families. Seventeen kids were only taught reading, no other subject. Not history, not science, not math. As they advanced through school and approached graduation, these students scored very high on SAT college entrance exams. All of these …
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman has tweeted an image of a group of Palestinian children seen through a sniper’s lens, along with an ominous warning. Avichay Adraee, the IDF Arabic spokesman tweeted the image on Friday, which appeared to be stamped with red letters reading, “We see you very well." “Whoever thinks he can …
Continue reading IDF’s Tweet Threatening Children with Sniper Fire Enrages Social Media Users
“Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.”—John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children They’re called the Little Barbies. Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now …
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Something very strange has happened since I studied health, nutrition and holistic health sciences and matriculated in prenatal and infant nutrition. Back then, pregnant mothers were advised to take no medications, not even an aspirin! All medications were to be carefully “vetted” by the female’s obstetrician-physician and were to be taken only when absolutely necessary! …
Continue reading The Strange World of Vaccines, Pregnancy and Children
Years ago, when my kids were in elementary school, I let one of them play a kid’s game on my computer. Hours later, when I got back on the computer, I had a virus. This was our first of many discussions about cyber safety. It’s safe to say that the internet is increasingly becoming more …
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Some 65 percent of baby food products in the US – including four out of five baby formulas – contain traces of the toxin arsenic, a new study has found, but officials say there is little they can do to remove substances that could harm developing infants. The Clean Label Project study of 530 baby products …
Continue reading Two-Thirds of US Baby Foods Test Positive for Arsenic, Many Contain Lead & Cadmium
