That insulin is an industry at all is enough to condemn the West to permanent jihad. May the entire employee directory of Eli Lilly be rendered into life-saving hormones forever.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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I wish the Unabomber was still alive to see this
His manifesto had curing diabetes as a sign that science "has gone too far"
in the same breath he says letting people have insulin is a similar problem
- Even if medical progress could be maintained without the rest of the technological system, it would by itself bring certain evils. Suppose for example that a cure for diabetes is discovered. People with a genetic tendency to diabetes will then be able to survive and reproduce as well as anyone else. Natural selection against genes for diabetes will cease and such genes will spread throughout the population. (This may be occurring to some extent already, since diabetes, while not curable, can be controlled through use of insulin.) The same thing will happen with many other diseases susceptibility to which is affected by genetic degradation of the population.
MKULTRA really did a number on this guy
"If a cure was developed for people with this condition, then they would be able to reproduce more people who could be easily cured. There can only be one conclusion from this: billions must die"
Nazism with environmentalist characteristics
LSD is a hell of a drug folks
when you understand genetics but don't understand biology well enough to get that most people reproduce well before diabetes would cause their deaths
Hate hate hate how he gets glorified in meme culture. eco fashist rethoric is on the rise and people sharing "uncle ted" memes doesnt help
The whole intelligence bit to how his story is told is grating to me too. Regardless of if you agree that he was very intelligent, it's like when they talk up the charisma of serial killers and the like, they're just fetishizing these people.
how intelligent could he have been really, if he fell for this eugenicist nonsense?
Natural selection against genes for diabetes will cease and such genes will spread throughout the population.
he think he's so smart saying the eugenicist version of "billions must die" but somehow forgets that Gene Therapy and CRISPR babies will erase 99% of genetic disorders in less than century without needing any eugenicisms or state-enforced mass cullings. Yeah you'll have the weird homeschooling anti-vax crowd refusing to beastmark their unborn children or w/e, also those silly countries that refuse to give this to all citizens for free, but normal people are going to get their embryos augmented plus pay extra for anime eye colors like purple.
Google's this dork
First article from him is titled "20 million dead club"
Stalin and Hitler
"Quick! Cast aspersions on stem cells as being harvested by the evil CCP from forcibly aborted fetuses! And maybe tie this in with some of that antivaxx stuff that is doing so well"
Some rag few years ago posted atrocity propaganda of evil China making medicine from hamsters, but was immediately shot down by western doctor explaining that it's not exactly made from live hamsters and it's standard procedure worldwide for decades.
NY Times, of course. https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/h9KM10FW8d.png?format=webp
Yeah it was this, thanks.
Welcome. 
Gotta be careful, if you frame this sufficiently ghoulishly you'll get them onboard with the worst possible implementation.
Stuff like optimizing for aborted fetuses (fetii?) to people cured of diabetes is what economists were made for.
my support is getting less critical
From the thumbnail I thought this was a picture of a Chinese finger trap rofl
Turns out that was the cure all along
islet be damned!
My friend has a dipshit antivax relative who believes that scientists have a cure for every disease but they won't sell the cure so they can make more money treating symptoms.
You'd think he would latch onto this as proof. Except in this case he'd be on the side of Big Insulin because he thinks China is evil.
Don't ask me how he makes sense of the world.
My friend has a dipshit antivax relative who believes that scientists have a cure for every disease but they won't sell the cure so they can make more money treating symptoms.
This is a family guy episode lol
Do anti-vaxxers think scientists control the world or something?
Laughable
If I mention this to anyone they will just say that China is lying
Oh no
That's got to be sarcastic right?
I would guess that this guy Dan Collins were saying that sarcastically.
but at what cost?