Breeding Exhibition
New World Order defends its corner
Michael Nield, 4th October 2011
There have been a few noteworthy items related to the epigenetics investigation since it was first published on 12th October 2010.
10th November 2010: The Galton Institute held a one day conference at The Royal Society entitled 'Epigenetics: Where life meets the genome.' The Galton Institute is the renamed Eugenics Education Society founded in 1907.
December 2010: Paul Nurse, past President of Rockefeller University was appointed President of The Royal Society.
March 2011: Cambridge University Press published The Changing Body. This was the culmination of nearly three decades of research by a Nobel laureate from the University of Chicago and others including Roderick Floud, the Provost of Gresham College. The New York Times reviewer described it as the 'capstone' of research in the field. The book shows that the human body has changed in shape, size and resilience in response to environmental conditions. Perhaps this is predictive programming for the shape of things to come. If human beings have been modified naturally and accidentally in the past, the present and future synthetic modifications may seem less objectionable, or even be the logical next step to some.
7th July 2011: Cambridge University opened a major exhibition on the history of population research, eugenics and population control. The title of the exhibition is 'Books and Babies: Communicating Reproduction'. Below is a short video I shot in the University Library where it is housed. The UL website has a section on the exhibition where all the accompanying captions can be read.The last exhibit is entitled 'Population Arithmetick'. The caption concludes, 'With calls for urgent action to reduce human-made climate change, population control is gaining legitimacy again.'
The exhibition is a product of the 'Generation to Reproduction group', mainly funded by the Wellcome Trust. This is the UK's largest non-governmental funder of biomedical research. On Wikipedia's list of the world's wealthiest charitable Foundations, Wellcome is number three. It currently has a £14 billion investment portfolio.
The group's website lists these areas of enquiry:
theories of sex and gender;
entities such as seeds, germs, embryos, monsters and clones;
concerns about creation, evolution, degeneration and regeneration;
investments in maternity, paternity and heredity;
practices of fertility control, potency and childbirth; and
health relations between citizen and state, individual and population.
Wellcome also financed the UK's contribution to the Human Genome Project based at Hinxton just outside Cambridge.