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Judi Lynn

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Thu Aug 1, 2019, 12:05 AM Aug 2019

Jeffrey Epstein Dreamed of 'Improving' Humanity With a Baby-Making Ranch (and His DNA)


By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | July 31, 2019 08:39pm ET

Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein toyed with an orthodox plan for shaping the future of the human race: He imagined impregnating as many as 20 women at a time at his New Mexico ranch, distributing his DNA for the betterment of our species, The New York Times reported today (July 31).

Epstein is thought to have drawn inspiration from an ideology that had purportedly intrigued him for decades. Known as "transhumanism," it describes manipulating or augmenting human genetics using technologies such as artificial intelligence and gene-editing, according to the Times.

But Epstein's plan had closer ties to a precursor of transhumanism: eugenics. This now-discredited movement, once popular in scientific and academic circles in the Western world, also championed shaping a "better" human race, through selective breeding for certain traits. However, so-called undesirable traits were generally those associated with minorities and people who were poor and uneducated, according to the Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Science Libraries, at the University of Virginia(UV). [9 Absolutely Evil Medical Experiments]

Over many years, Epstein wined and dined a number of notable scientists and peppered them with questions and his own opinions about human genetics, according to the Times. He invited scientists to lavish parties and dinners, sponsored their attendance at conferences and even funded their research.

More:
https://www.livescience.com/66072-jeffrey-epstein-dna-eugenics.html

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Jeffrey Epstein Dreamed of 'Improving' Humanity With a Baby-Making Ranch (and His DNA) (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2019 OP
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly told prominent scientists he wanted to impregnate 20 women at a time at h Judi Lynn Aug 2019 #1
I think I am going to be sick KT2000 Aug 2019 #2
We're all just borrowing our human genes in the short time we exist. hunter Aug 2019 #3

Judi Lynn

(160,525 posts)
1. Jeffrey Epstein reportedly told prominent scientists he wanted to impregnate 20 women at a time at h
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 03:31 AM
Aug 2019

Jeffrey Epstein reportedly told prominent scientists he wanted to impregnate 20 women at a time at his New Mexico ranch in order to 'seed the human race with his DNA'
Michelle Mark 1h

Jeffrey Epstein "hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women" at his New Mexico ranch and told scientists and confidants of his plan, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing four sources familiar with his thinking.

The financier and convicted sex offender has discussed the idea since the early 2000s at various dinners, conferences, and gatherings, The Times reported. But there is no evidence he actually acted on it.

The idea was to impregnate 20 women at a time by inseminating them with his sperm, The Times reported, citing Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist and writer who said he heard the story secondhand from a NASA scientist who described her conversation with Epstein.

One scientist told The Times that Epstein was not shy about the idea, discussing it at a dinner in 2001. Another told the newspaper that Epstein talked about it with him at a 2006 conference in the Virgin Islands.

More:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-seed-human-race-dna-by-impregnating-women-2019-7

hunter

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3. We're all just borrowing our human genes in the short time we exist.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 12:45 PM
Aug 2019

It's impossible to know how these genes will sort out in the next human population collapse, or even if humans will survive at all.

This old planet has seen many innovative species come and go, some gradually, some mere sparks in the fire.


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