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August 11, 2006 at 11:29 am #1038828
A Labour MP has apologised after saying inbreeding may be partly to blame for a rise in cases of diabetes in his Norfolk constituency.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4781693.stm?ls
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August 11, 2006 at 11:36 am #1085829Somehow I think it’s better to keep some of your thoughts to yourself.
😉August 11, 2006 at 9:34 pm #1085827ha ha ha:laugh_at:
August 11, 2006 at 10:53 pm #1085824stand bythe truth… don’t apologise because you want to be a career bullshitter
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August 11, 2006 at 11:05 pm #1085822I am fairly sure he is launching a new blog and may be deliberately courting controversy and encouraging debate; knowing the media will dumb down his real statements and intentions (which were to have a proper investigation into the genetic makeup of sufferers of type 1 diabetes)
This isn’t a knuckle-dragging local politico; but an educated chap with a doctorate in biological sciences – his Phd is in genetics!
in science the term inbreeding is not quite the same as its “street level” connotations of recent incest… he is clearly talking about the development of the population in the area over a few hundred years or so – and there was an amount of inbreeding in all rural communities worldwide until the last 100 or so years due to the combined effects of class structures and lack of transport….
even today if people refuse to accept new entrants into their socieites and form relationships (and ultimately new families) with these new entrants then you are going to have an isolated gene pool…
I bet it wouldn’t matter to him anyway if he got voted out at the next election; the man could walk into a job at any university or with a lot of private science research labs….
August 11, 2006 at 11:36 pm #1085825now there’s a bit of background
for real inbreeding he’d want to check out parts of somerset
my dad took a relocation with his job to a place called western zoyland years ago
apparently the town walled itself in during the plague… obvioulsy with no news from the outside world they didn’t know when it was safe to ‘open the gates’, so it stayed a closed community with only 3 or 4 families to ‘breed’
even today, many children in that village are born with severe genetic defects… some families have moved to bridgewater to continue their inbreeding
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August 11, 2006 at 11:41 pm #1085826General Lighting wrote:in science the term inbreeding is not quite the same as its “street level” connotations of recent incest… he is clearly talking about the development of the population in the area over a few hundred years or so – and there was an amount of inbreeding in all rural communities worldwide until the last 100 or so years due to the combined effects of class structures and lack of transport….in our area they have a ‘local’ face and only enough grandparents for each person to have three – ie 75% as many grandparents as there should be for each person and going back at least three generations:you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy
and they dont like strangers round here :groucho: :groucho: :groucho:
August 12, 2006 at 9:47 am #1085828globalloon wrote:even today, many children in that village are born with severe genetic defects… some families have moved to bridgewater to continue their inbreeding:yakk:
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August 17, 2006 at 11:59 am #1085823‘angonasec…
unless plague came back to SW England in the 19th or early 20th century (and I probably would have read about it by now somewhere) the communities there can’t use that excuse….
its either sheer parochialism, nimbyism and a refusal to accept newcomers into their community (particularly from other ethnic backgrounds); or something else such as contamination from teratogenic chemicals or radiation is causing those genetic defects.
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