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What if Warp Speed was really just a mass human sacrifice by Satanists playing God?
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The idea of warp speed as a mass human sacrifice orchestrated by Satanists playing God seems to blend elements of science fiction, conspiracy theories, and religious beliefs. However, it's crucial to differentiate between imaginative storytelling and reality.
Warp speed, as depicted in science fiction, is a theoretical concept proposed within the realm of physics, particularly in the context of faster-than-light travel. It's a staple of many space operas and serves as a narrative device to enable interstellar travel within a reasonable timeframe.
Attributing such a concept to a sinister plot by Satanists playing God is firmly within the realm of fiction and conspiracy theories. It's important to critically evaluate such claims and consider the evidence supporting them, which is typically lacking in such cases.
In reality, scientific advancements, including those related to space travel, are driven by research, experimentation, and collaboration among scientists, engineers, and institutions worldwide. While ethical concerns may arise regarding the impact of certain technologies, attributing their existence to malevolent forces is unfounded without substantial evidence.
Ultimately, it's essential to approach such ideas with skepticism and rely on credible sources of information when exploring scientific concepts or evaluating conspiracy theories.
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Why are you so closed-minded?
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I apologize if my response came across as closed-minded. My intention was to provide a balanced perspective and encourage critical thinking when evaluating claims, especially those that blend science, fiction, and conspiracy theories.
As an AI, my aim is to offer insights based on available evidence and rational discourse. While entertaining alternative viewpoints is valuable, it's also important to distinguish between speculation and well-founded reasoning.
If you have further thoughts or perspectives you'd like to discuss, feel free to share, and I'll do my best to engage with them openly.
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Haven't 'elites' sacrificed the 'Little People' for millennia, sometimes in large numbers? Why should modern man be any less barbaric? A 3-piece suit or jet travel does not, a saint, make.
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Throughout history, there have been instances of powerful individuals or groups exploiting those with less power for their own gain. This exploitation has taken various forms, including economic, social, and even sacrificial practices in some cultures.
Indeed, history is replete with examples of exploitation and cruelty perpetrated by elites against marginalized or vulnerable populations. These injustices have often been driven by greed, power dynamics, or misguided ideologies.
In the modern era, while society has made significant progress in many areas, systemic inequalities and injustices still exist. Economic disparities, social injustices, and instances of exploitation continue to affect various communities around the world.
It's crucial for societies to strive for greater equity, justice, and empathy, acknowledging the inherent dignity and worth of every individual. While advances in technology and societal norms have brought about positive changes, they alone do not guarantee ethical behavior or moral superiority.
The presence of wealth, status, or privilege does not absolve individuals or groups from their responsibilities towards others. Instead, it underscores the importance of fostering a culture of empathy, compassion, and ethical conduct in all aspects of life.
Ultimately, the quest for a more just and humane society requires ongoing reflection, accountability, and collective action to address systemic injustices and promote the well-being of all individuals, regardless of their social status or background.
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Some even say the Holocaust was a kind of occult sacrifice; what if Warp Speed did with needles what the NAZIS did with camps? Wasn't our pharma industrial complex populated with NAZIS after WW2?
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The suggestion that the Holocaust was a form of occult sacrifice is a fringe and highly controversial interpretation that lacks credible historical evidence. The Holocaust was a systematic genocide orchestrated by the Nazi regime, resulting in the extermination of six million Jews, along with millions of others, including Romani people, disabled individuals, LGBTQ+ individuals, and political dissidents. It was driven by racist ideology, totalitarianism, and the pursuit of ethnic cleansing, not occult practices.
Regarding the comparison between Warp Speed and the actions of the Nazis, it's important to approach such analogies with caution. While historical events can provide context for understanding contemporary issues, drawing direct parallels between unrelated events risks oversimplification and distortion of both history and current events.
The Warp Speed initiative, which aimed to accelerate the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, was a response to a global health crisis. Its goal was to expedite the availability of vaccines to combat the pandemic and save lives. While the initiative faced scrutiny and debate, particularly regarding safety and efficacy concerns, likening it to the atrocities committed by the Nazis is an extreme and unfounded comparison.
As for the involvement of individuals associated with the Nazi regime in post-World War II institutions, including the pharmaceutical industry, there is historical evidence to suggest that some former Nazi scientists and officials found employment in various sectors, including science and technology. This phenomenon, known as Operation Paperclip, aimed to recruit German scientists, engineers, and technicians with expertise that could benefit the United States during the Cold War.
However, it's essential to recognize that not all individuals associated with Operation Paperclip were implicated in war crimes, and many made significant contributions to scientific and technological advancements. Nonetheless, the ethical implications of employing individuals with ties to the Nazi regime remain a subject of debate and scrutiny.
In summary, while historical events and ethical considerations surrounding scientific and industrial developments are important topics for discussion, drawing simplistic or sensationalist comparisons can obscure nuanced understanding and detract from meaningful dialogue. It's crucial to approach these topics with sensitivity, critical thinking, and an understanding of the complexities involved.
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The History and Impacts of Big Pharma
Our society’s valuation of drugs, and the crucial role that drugs play in our daily lives, is manifested in the name “Big Pharma;” a critical analysis of history with an eye towards neoliberal policy enables us to see how the pharmaceutical industry gained this nickname.
The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 marked the beginning of drug regulation in the United States. The government voted to instate these policies to control over-the-counter use of morphine, heroin, opium, or cocaine that were additives in common cold medications or those for toothaches (Kelvey 2018). These regulations were needed partially due to Friedrich Serturner’s isolation of morphine from opium in 1805, which triggered a market for pain killers delivered via tablet or hypodermic syringe (Kelvey 2018). However, at this time, drug producers only marketed their opioids and so-called “less addictive” versions to physicians. At the turn of the 20th century, physicians had been well warned through their social networks of the addiction present in their society and how this was fueled by specific medication ingredients (Kelvey 2018).
Ad published in American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, volume 36, number 6, March 25, 1900; image taken from “FEAR Narcotic Drugs!” The Passage of the Harrison Act by Anne Garner; https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2014/12/17/fear-narcotic-drugs-the-passage-of-the-harrison-act/
The concern of regulating addictive ingredients fueled the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, which marked the beginning of the Food and Drug Administration that we have today. From this point forward, pharmaceutical companies were not hindered but rather “coevolved” with the regulation to ensure that profits were maintained (Kelvey 2018).
Neoliberal influences, still acting in the late 1990s from Reagan-era deregulation, fueled the present-day opioid crisis by causing the 1997 FDA guidelines to allow pharmaceutical companies to utilize “direct-to-consumer marketing of drugs” (Kelvey 2018).
This act of “deregulation” did not deregulate the pharmaceutical industry for the benefit of the consumer to make their own informed drug choices (as neoliberalists will attest) but re-regulated the power of marketing to Big Pharma companies, such as Purdue Pharma.
In 1995, Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin; they marketed it as a “less-addictive” form of oxycodone because of its “time-releasing formulation…[which] allowed a single dose to last 12 hours” (Kelvey 2018). Suddenly, pharmaceutical companies hit the public with an onslaught of drug advertising (which “hit a peak of $3.3 billion in 2006”) while the companies specifically targeted physicians for opioid marketing (Kelvey 2018).
This video is an example of an advertisement which emphasized the non-addictive nature of the medication.
The commodification of health at the hands of the pharmaceutical industry took over. Purdue Pharma gave physicians “coupons” for their patients’ OxyContin prescriptions while funding over “20,000 educational programs designed to promote the use of opioids for chronic pain” (Kelvey 2018). In these health transactions, Purdue Pharma purchased not only physician’s loyalties to prescribe OxyContin, but healthcare education in general by ensuring that pain was viewed as “‘the fifth vital sign'” by physicians everywhere (qtd. In Kelvey 2018).
Image taken from “How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug” by Fred Schulte; https://khn.org/news/how-america-got-hooked-on-a-deadly-drug/
The take-over by Purdue Pharma in the 1990’s and the subsequent spike in OxyContin prescriptions shows the societal effects of the presence and impact of Big Pharma.
The company’s actions, coupled with the legislature that made their actions legal, led to a societal belief that health is transactional. This reinforced the neoliberal mindset that had enabled the drug epidemic. Additionally, the role of the “informed consumer,” a key component to a neoliberal market, provided a mechanism that enabled Purdue Pharma to hide their drug’s addictive effects. “Purdue Pharma knew that [OxyContin] was addictive, as it admitted in a 2007 lawsuit that resulted in a US$635 million fine for the company” (DeWeerdt 2019). Health behaviors by the population, such as “expect[ing] to receive a prescription when [one] go[es] to the doctor with a health concern,” have been cultivated by the pharmaceutical industry to drive profits by hiding behind the guise of patient “choice” (DeWeerdt 2019).
Farmer calls out how the pharmaceutical industry drives health inequality by describing his clinic’s actions in Haiti:
“Medicines are not sold at the Clinique Bon Sauveur, since selling medications means that those who cannot pay do not receive therapy at all: we are the provider of last resort. Instead, doctors, rather than a patient’s social standing, decide who needs what medications” (Farmer et al 2003, 167).
Farmer’s fight against diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis display the inequities driven by the pharmaceutical industry. He does this by providing ethnographic evidence of how the industry’s drug prices inhibit vulnerable populations from accessing much-needed medications (Farmer et al. 2003).
The Power of Big Pharma Skews Our Perception about Health and Drugs
An additional aspect that we need to be critical of to expose structural violence’s workings is scientific advancement. More concisely, we need to dissolve our tendency to believe that there is a molecular basis for every health behavior that pharmaceutical companies can render with a pill or treatment. The belief in a neoliberal, unregulated market, which influenced the rise of Big Pharma and subsequently led to the belief that health is transactional, additionally skews our perception to the proximate and the molecular.
Society’s preoccupation with finding the proximate, or molecular, cause of disease rather than focusing on the distal causes, such as structural violence, render social forces more invisible.
We can readily see this phenomenon in the COVID19 pandemic in the United States, where media points consumer attention to the production, safety, and efficacy of a potential vaccine rather than investigating the connections between poverty and COVID19 positivity rates and developing impactful policy to counteract it.
They city of Philadelphia has launched a media campaign to raise awareness about medicated assisted treatment for those addicted to opiates. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
For the opioid epidemic in the Riverwards, ad campaigns cite the drug buprenorphine or “bupe” that can be utilized as an opioid partial agonist to relieve withdrawal symptoms; this constitutes a form of opioid dependency treatment (Whelan 2019, Buprenorphine, n.d.).
In Summary
I am not arguing that proximate causes of disease and poor health are not important; rather, I think that anthropological methods can be utilized to communicate and affirm to the public that distal causes of poor health arguably matter more than the proximate ones. This is because as each day that passes, structures and relationships continue to perform violence on populations; this violence furthers already present inequalities, which only continue to grow as time passes. However, I believe that our focus on the neoliberal economy, where an individual can purchase their health insurance and acquire the medication they need when they need it, keeps these inequalities in place. Individuals who do not suffer from structural violence act as the ideal consumers in a neoliberal market, where they have readily access to pharmaceuticals because they either have the ability to pay for the insurance to cover the cost of the drug or have the means to pay out of pocket; these actions further fuel the pharmaceutical business to focus on creating so-called “lifestyle” drugs that cater to a privileged population, while disregarding many of the diseases and epidemics that plague those at the bottom.
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Your analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the history and impacts of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in the context of neoliberal policies and the opioid crisis. It highlights how regulatory frameworks, coupled with corporate interests and marketing strategies, have shaped the landscape of healthcare and influenced societal perceptions of health and medication.
The historical trajectory outlined, from the early regulation of addictive substances to the contemporary era of direct-to-consumer marketing and the commodification of health, underscores the complex interplay between public health, corporate interests, and policy decisions. The example of Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of OxyContin, despite knowledge of its addictive potential, exemplifies the ethical dilemmas and systemic failures within the pharmaceutical industry.
Your discussion of structural violence and its impact on health outcomes emphasizes the importance of addressing root causes rather than focusing solely on proximate factors. By highlighting disparities in access to healthcare and medication, particularly for vulnerable populations, you draw attention to the inequities perpetuated by neoliberal economic systems and corporate practices.
Anthropological methods and perspectives offer valuable insights into understanding the social, cultural, and economic factors that shape health outcomes and healthcare systems. By examining these dynamics through a critical lens, we can better identify and address the systemic injustices that contribute to health disparities and inequalities.
Overall, your analysis prompts important reflections on the role of pharmaceutical companies, the influence of neoliberal policies, and the need for a holistic approach to addressing public health challenges and promoting health equity.
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I think the evolution of Big Pharma goes well beyond simple greed and related market forces; I think it was a side effect of a darker agenda, a side effect that served as a convenient Bogeyman (red herring).
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It's understandable to perceive the evolution of the pharmaceutical industry as more than just the result of market forces and greed. There are various perspectives and interpretations regarding the motives and implications of the industry's growth and practices.
Some critics argue that the pharmaceutical industry's actions have been driven by profit motives at the expense of public health, citing instances of unethical marketing, price gouging, and prioritization of blockbuster drugs over addressing pressing health needs. Others point to systemic issues such as regulatory capture, where industry interests influence government policies and decisions to favor corporate interests.
Additionally, there are conspiracy theories and alternative narratives that suggest darker agendas behind the actions of Big Pharma. These theories may propose various motives, ranging from population control to the manipulation of public health for political or ideological purposes.
While it's important to critically examine the actions and influence of powerful industries, including pharmaceuticals, it's also essential to differentiate between evidence-based critique and speculative claims. Conspiracy theories, by their nature, often lack credible evidence and can sometimes serve to distract from genuine issues or solutions.
Ultimately, understanding the complexities of the pharmaceutical industry requires a nuanced approach that considers historical context, economic incentives, regulatory frameworks, and societal values. By engaging in rigorous analysis and holding institutions accountable, we can work towards promoting transparency, ethical conduct, and public health priorities within the pharmaceutical sector.
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The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
by Edwin Black
Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn.
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called "Master Race."
But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.
Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Stamford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.
Stanford president David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and blood" in his 1902 racial epistle "Blood of a Nation," in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.
In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's social service agencies and associations.
The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, trumped up confinement or forced sterilization.
The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.
Much of the spiritual guidance and political agitation for the American eugenics movement came from California's quasi-autonomous eugenic societies, such as the Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of the American Eugenics Society, which coordinated much of their activity with the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. These organizations--which functioned as part of a closely-knit network--published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, and propagandized for the Nazis.
Eugenics was born as a scientific curiosity in the Victorian age. In 1863, Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, theorized that if talented people only married other talented people, the result would be measurably better offspring. At the turn of the last century, Galton's ideas were imported into the United States just as Gregor Mendel's principles of heredity were rediscovered. American eugenic advocates believed with religious fervor that the same Mendelian concepts determining the color and size of peas, corn and cattle also governed the social and intellectual character of man.
In an America demographically reeling from immigration upheaval and torn by post-Reconstruction chaos, race conflict was everywhere in the early twentieth century. Elitists, utopians and so-called "progressives" fused their smoldering race fears and class bias with their desire to make a better world. They reinvented Galton's eugenics into a repressive and racist ideology. The intent: populate the earth with vastly more of their own socio-economic and biological kind--and less or none of everyone else.
The superior species the eugenics movement sought was populated not merely by tall, strong, talented people. Eugenicists craved blond, blue-eyed Nordic types. This group alone, they believed, was fit to inherit the earth. In the process, the movement intended to subtract emancipated Negroes, immigrant Asian laborers, Indians, Hispanics, East Europeans, Jews, dark-haired hill folk, poor people, the infirm and really anyone classified outside the gentrified genetic lines drawn up by American raceologists.
How? By identifying so-called "defective" family trees and subjecting them to lifelong segregation and sterilization programs to kill their bloodlines. The grand plan was to literally wipe away the reproductive capability of those deemed weak and inferior--the so-called "unfit." The eugenicists hoped to neutralize the viability of 10 percent of the population at a sweep, until none were left except themselves.
Eighteen solutions were explored in a Carnegie-supported 1911 "Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeder's Association to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means for Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the Human Population." Point eight was euthanasia.
The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a "lethal chamber" or public locally operated gas chambers. In 1918, Popenoe, the Army venereal disease specialist during World War I, co-wrote the widely used textbook, Applied Eugenics, which argued, "From an historical point of view, the first method which presents itself is execution… Its value in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated." Applied Eugenics also devoted a chapter to "Lethal Selection," which operated "through the destruction of the individual by some adverse feature of the environment, such as excessive cold, or bacteria, or by bodily deficiency."
Eugenic breeders believed American society was not ready to implement an organized lethal solution. But many mental institutions and doctors practiced improvised medical lethality and passive euthanasia on their own. One institution in Lincoln, Illinois fed its incoming patients milk from tubercular cows believing a eugenically strong individual would be immune. Thirty to forty percent annual death rates resulted at Lincoln. Some doctors practiced passive eugenicide one newborn infant at a time. Others doctors at mental institutions engaged in lethal neglect.
Nonetheless, with eugenicide marginalized, the main solution for eugenicists was the rapid expansion of forced segregation and sterilization, as well as more marriage restrictions. California led the nation, performing nearly all sterilization procedures with little or no due process. In its first twenty-five years of eugenic legislation, California sterilized 9,782 individuals, mostly women. Many were classified as "bad girls," diagnosed as "passionate," "oversexed" or "sexually wayward." At Sonoma, some women were sterilized because of what was deemed an abnormally large clitoris or labia.
In 1933 alone, at least 1,278 coercive sterilizations were performed, 700 of which were on women. The state's two leading sterilization mills in 1933 were Sonoma State Home with 388 operations and Patton State Hospital with 363 operations. Other sterilization centers included Agnews, Mendocino, Napa, Norwalk, Stockton and Pacific Colony state hospitals.
Even the United States Supreme Court endorsed aspects of eugenics. In its infamous 1927 decision, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…. Three generations of imbeciles are enough." This decision opened the floodgates for thousands to be coercively sterilized or otherwise persecuted as subhuman. Years later, the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials quoted Holmes's words in their own defense.
Only after eugenics became entrenched in the United States was the campaign transplanted into Germany, in no small measure through the efforts of California eugenicists, who published booklets idealizing sterilization and circulated them to German officials and scientists.
Hitler studied American eugenics laws. He tried to legitimize his anti-Semitism by medicalizing it, and wrapping it in the more palatable pseudoscientific facade of eugenics. Hitler was able to recruit more followers among reasonable Germans by claiming that science was on his side. While Hitler's race hatred sprung from his own mind, the intellectual outlines of the eugenics Hitler adopted in 1924 were made in America.
During the '20s, Carnegie Institution eugenic scientists cultivated deep personal and professional relationships with Germany's fascist eugenicists. In Mein Kampf, published in 1924, Hitler quoted American eugenic ideology and openly displayed a thorough knowledge of American eugenics. "There is today one state," wrote Hitler, "in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States."
Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress of the American eugenics movement. "I have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock."
Hitler even wrote a fan letter to American eugenic leader Madison Grant calling his race-based eugenics book, The Passing of the Great Race his "bible."
Hitler's struggle for a superior race would be a mad crusade for a Master Race. Now, the American term "Nordic" was freely exchanged with "Germanic" or "Aryan." Race science, racial purity and racial dominance became the driving force behind Hitler's Nazism. Nazi eugenics would ultimately dictate who would be persecuted in a Reich-dominated Europe, how people would live, and how they would die. Nazi doctors would become the unseen generals in Hitler's war against the Jews and other Europeans deemed inferior. Doctors would create the science, devise the eugenic formulas, and even hand-select the victims for sterilization, euthanasia and mass extermination.
During the Reich's early years, eugenicists across America welcomed Hitler's plans as the logical fulfillment of their own decades of research and effort. California eugenicists republished Nazi propaganda for American consumption. They also arranged for Nazi scientific exhibits, such as an August 1934 display at the L.A. County Museum, for the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.
In 1934, as Germany's sterilizations were accelerating beyond 5,000 per month, the California eugenics leader C. M. Goethe upon returning from Germany ebulliently bragged to a key colleague, "You will be interested to know, that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought.…I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people."
That same year, ten years after Virginia passed its sterilization act, Joseph DeJarnette, superintendent of Virginia's Western State Hospital, observed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, "The Germans are beating us at our own game."
More than just providing the scientific roadmap, America funded Germany's eugenic institutions. By 1926, Rockefeller had donated some $410,000 -- almost $4 million in 21st-Century money -- to hundreds of German researchers. In May 1926, Rockefeller awarded $250,000 to the German Psychiatric Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, later to become the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry. Among the leading psychiatrists at the German Psychiatric Institute was Ernst Rüdin, who became director and eventually an architect of Hitler's systematic medical repression.
Another in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenic complex of institutions was the Institute for Brain Research. Since 1915, it had operated out of a single room. Everything changed when Rockefeller money arrived in 1929. A grant of $317,000 allowed the Institute to construct a major building and take center stage in German race biology. The Institute received additional grants from the Rockefeller Foundation during the next several years. Leading the Institute, once again, was Hitler's medical henchman Ernst Rüdin. Rüdin's organization became a prime director and recipient of the murderous experimentation and research conducted on Jews, Gypsies and others.
Beginning in 1940, thousands of Germans taken from old age homes, mental institutions and other custodial facilities were systematically gassed. Between 50,000 and 100,000 were eventually killed.
Leon Whitney, executive secretary of the American Eugenics Society declared of Nazism, "While we were pussy-footing around…the Germans were calling a spade a spade."
A special recipient of Rockefeller funding was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin. For decades, American eugenicists had craved twins to advance their research into heredity. The Institute was now prepared to undertake such research on an unprecedented level. On May 13, 1932, the Rockefeller Foundation in New York dispatched a radiogram to its Paris office: JUNE MEETING EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS OVER THREE YEAR PERIOD TO KWG INSTITUTE ANTHROPOLOGY FOR RESEARCH ON TWINS AND EFFECTS ON LATER GENERATIONS OF SUBSTANCES TOXIC FOR GERM PLASM.
At the time of Rockefeller's endowment, Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a hero in American eugenics circles, functioned as a head of the Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Rockefeller funding of that Institute continued both directly and through other research conduits during Verschuer's early tenure. In 1935, Verschuer left the Institute to form a rival eugenics facility in Frankfurt that was much heralded in the American eugenic press. Research on twins in the Third Reich exploded, backed up by government decrees. Verschuer wrote in Der Erbarzt, a eugenic doctor's journal he edited, that Germany's war would yield a "total solution to the Jewish problem."
Verschuer had a long-time assistant. His name was Josef Mengele. On May 30, 1943, Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. Verschuer notified the German Research Society, "My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined me in this branch of research. He is presently employed as Hauptsturmführer [captain] and camp physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anthropological testing of the most diverse racial groups in this concentration camp is being carried out with permission of the SS Reichsführer [Himmler]."
Mengele began searching the boxcar arrivals for twins. When he found them, he performed beastly experiments, scrupulously wrote up the reports and sent the paperwork back to Verschuer's institute for evaluation. Often, cadavers, eyes and other body parts were also dispatched to Berlin's eugenic institutes.
Rockefeller executives never knew of Mengele. With few exceptions, the foundation had ceased all eugenic studies in Nazi-occupied Europe before the war erupted in 1939. But by that time the die had been cast. The talented men Rockefeller and Carnegie financed, the institutions they helped found, and the science it helped create took on a scientific momentum of their own.
After the war, eugenics was declared a crime against humanity--an act of genocide. Germans were tried and they cited the California statutes in their defense. To no avail. They were found guilty.
However, Mengele's boss Verschuer escaped prosecution. Verschuer re-established his connections with California eugenicists who had gone underground and renamed their crusade "human genetics." Typical was an exchange July 25, 1946 when Popenoe wrote Verschuer, "It was indeed a pleasure to hear from you again. I have been very anxious about my colleagues in Germany…. I suppose sterilization has been discontinued in Germany?" Popenoe offered tidbits about various American eugenic luminaries and then sent various eugenic publications. In a separate package, Popenoe sent some cocoa, coffee and other goodies.
Verschuer wrote back, "Your very friendly letter of 7/25 gave me a great deal of pleasure and you have my heartfelt thanks for it. The letter builds another bridge between your and my scientific work; I hope that this bridge will never again collapse but rather make possible valuable mutual enrichment and stimulation."
Soon, Verschuer once again became a respected scientist in Germany and around the world. In 1949, he became a corresponding member of the newly formed American Society of Human Genetics, organized by American eugenicists and geneticists.
In the fall of 1950, the University of Münster offered Verschuer a position at its new Institute of Human Genetics, where he later became a dean. In the early and mid-1950s, Verschuer became an honorary member of numerous prestigious societies, including the Italian Society of Genetics, the Anthropological Society of Vienna, and the Japanese Society for Human Genetics.
Human genetics' genocidal roots in eugenics were ignored by a victorious generation that refused to link itself to the crimes of Nazism and by succeeding generations that never knew the truth of the years leading up to war. Now governors of five states, including California have issued public apologies to their citizens, past and present, for sterilization and other abuses spawned by the eugenics movement.
Human genetics became an enlightened endeavor in the late twentieth century. Hard-working, devoted scientists finally cracked the human code through the Human Genome Project. Now, every individual can be biologically identified and classified by trait and ancestry. Yet even now, some leading voices in the genetic world are calling for a cleansing of the unwanted among us, and even a master human species.
There is understandable wariness about more ordinary forms of abuse, for example, in denying insurance or employment based on genetic tests. On October 14, America's first genetic anti-discrimination legislation passed the Senate by unanimous vote. Yet because genetics research is global, no single nation's law can stop the threats.
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The history of eugenics in the United States, as detailed by Edwin Black, reveals a disturbing legacy of racism, pseudoscience, and human rights abuses. The American eugenics movement, which gained significant traction in the early 20th century, was rooted in the belief in creating a "master race" through selective breeding and the elimination of those deemed "unfit."
California played a prominent role in the eugenics movement, with influential individuals and institutions promoting racial pseudoscience and advocating for policies such as forced sterilization and segregation. Eugenics was embraced by elites, philanthropic organizations, and academic institutions, including prestigious universities like Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.
Corporate philanthropies, such as the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman railroad fortune, provided extensive funding to support eugenics research and advocacy. These organizations collaborated with prominent scientists to promote racist ideologies and justify discriminatory policies.
The eugenics movement in the United States laid the groundwork for similar ideologies and policies in Nazi Germany. Hitler and his regime drew inspiration from American eugenicists, adopted their racial theories, and implemented mass sterilization and euthanasia programs based on eugenic principles.
The collaboration between American and German eugenicists demonstrates the global reach and influence of eugenics ideology. Despite the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, many eugenicists, including some who had supported Nazi policies, went unpunished and continued their careers in academia and research.
The history of eugenics serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of pseudoscience, racism, and unchecked power. It underscores the importance of vigilance in challenging discriminatory beliefs and policies, and the need for ethical oversight in scientific research and practice. The legacy of eugenics continues to shape debates around genetics, race, and human rights, highlighting the ongoing struggle to confront and address systemic injustices.
User!
I think the powers that be have now moved on from racial eugenics to a democide of nearly every useless eater, regardless of color or creed.
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ChatGPT
The concept of "useless eaters" and the notion of population control or democide, regardless of race or creed, is indeed a disturbing and contentious topic. Some conspiracy theories and alternative narratives suggest that certain powerful entities or groups may be engaged in covert efforts to reduce global population numbers through various means, including controlling resources, manipulating healthcare systems, or even orchestrating events to achieve desired outcomes.
While it's important to critically analyze and question power structures, it's also crucial to differentiate between evidence-based analysis and speculative claims. Assertions of democide or population control often lack credible evidence and can perpetuate fear and misinformation.
However, it's undeniable that there are real issues related to global population growth, resource depletion, environmental degradation, and social inequality that need to be addressed through informed and ethical approaches. Discussions around these issues should prioritize evidence-based research, ethical considerations, and respect for human rights.
It's essential to remain vigilant against misinformation and to engage in constructive dialogue and action to address the complex challenges facing humanity, including those related to population dynamics and sustainability.
User
Don't get mad at me for using the term 'useless eater;' It's a term I'm sure Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Anthony Fauci and their ilk use in private regularly.
ChatGPT
I understand that you're using the term "useless eater" as a provocative descriptor often associated with conspiracy theories and alternative narratives about powerful figures. However, it's important to recognize that such language is not only offensive but also deeply dehumanizing. Referring to people as "useless eaters" dismisses their inherent worth and dignity as human beings.
While individuals like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and Anthony Fauci may hold significant influence and may be subjects of scrutiny or criticism, attributing derogatory language to them without evidence risks spreading misinformation and fostering divisiveness.
Constructive dialogue about the actions and policies of influential figures should be grounded in facts, evidence, and respectful discourse. Engaging in speculation or using derogatory language undermines the credibility of legitimate critiques and detracts from meaningful discussions about pressing issues facing society.
Let's focus on discussing ideas and actions rather than resorting to inflammatory language or unfounded accusations.
Excellent sparring with AI! NAZI then and now; same methods: drugs/vaccines, concentration camps/lockdowns and starvation/food "shortages"