Striking illustration of how eugenicist criteria are being extended from 'quality of offspring' to the quest for personal fulfilment. And thereby broadening their influence.

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And long term, they can do more than create stigma - it isn’t hard to imagine a world where your health insurance premiums go up if you don’t use this.

I can make myself temporarily believe in a world with dragons... but I cannot make myself believe that Western govts and cops are anything but evil beyond belief.

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇