in reference to the following article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5278028/ , I am wondering if this is a direct result of old Nazi genetic engineering experiments (or possibly current ones)… or jest a bizarre coincedence?
Yes. It happened in Germany, so it must be the Nazis. :rolleyes:
And how would these Nazi genetic engineering experiments be carried out, hmm? It’s a big leap from eugenics to genetic engineering. Watson and Crick published their paper about the structure of DNA in 1953, a bit late for Hitler to take advantage of it.
As for post-Nazi genetic experiments, this kid has two defective myostatin genes, and various members of his family on his mother’s side, including his grandfather, have one. He’s 5, so I’ll assume he was born in 1999. I’ll also assume that his mother had him at age 20 and that her father had her at age 20. That would mean his grandfather was born in 1959, still WAY too early for someone to have come along and knocked out one of his myostatin genes by hand - researchers only managed to do it to MICE in 1997, fergoshsakes.
I think the only possible way you can link this to Nazis is by assuming that they got very strong people, who may or may not have had a defective myostatin gene, to have an awful lot of kids, thus increasing the prevalence of the defective gene in the German population and making it easier for kids like this to appear sixty years or so later. I’m not buying it.
The nazis were like any other evil overlords. They wanted to get laid a lot, so they had “breeding programs” – hee hee.