--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993451 > > Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer > > Fifty years to the day from the discovery of the > structure of DNA, one of > its co-discoverers has caused a storm by suggesting > that stupidity is a > genetic disease that should be cured. <snip> > But in a documentary series to be screened in the UK > on Channel 4, Watson > says that low intelligence is an inherited disorder > and that molecular > biologists have a duty to devise gene therapies or > screening tests to tackle stupidity. <snip rest>
<grin> So, what should be done with the vast majority of people who aren't stupid, but have not a shred of (un)common sense, or are one of the deliberately ignorant? Wait for neural interfaces, and provide them with basic "This Is Sensible" software? And what language would that be written in? ;) GSV BasicSense __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
