1. Brave New World Revisited
Quantity, Quality and Morality

2. Science in The Brave New World
Population Control:
Eugenics and dysgenics – find definitions
Bottle babies
Bokanovsky Process

3. 1931 And Before…
Without advanced medications, children born with defects rarely survived
Genetics was naturally controlled this way – the children did not grow up to pass along their defective genes (Survival of the Fittest)

4. 1952 No worldwide system to control population exists
World overpopulated with the wrong kind of people:
Poor genetics = stupid population
Poor genetics = sicker people
Poor genetics = less advancements

5. 1952– Health
Children born with genetic defects survive and pass along their defective genes because of:
Good hygeine
Advanced medicine
Social conscience
The physical health of the general population is getting poorer

6. 1952 – Intelligence
Along with a decline of average health comes a decline of average intelligence
Dr. W. H. Sheldon: “Under conditions that are both soft and unregulated…our best stock tends to be outbred by stock that is inferior to it in every respect…reproductive delinquency is biological and basic…nobody knows just how far the average IQ in this country has declined since 1916, when Terman attempted to standardize the meaning of IQ 100.”

7. Poor Countries
4/5 of country’s population eat less than 2000 calories a day
What does this do to health?
Only 1/5 of population eat an adequate diet

8. Rich Countries
Practice dysgenics
IQ’s on the decline

9. Ethical Dilemma in 1952 and Today
How do we solve the problem?
Do we continue to medicate people, save thousands of lives if it means that world population rises so much that we can no longer clothe, feed, education or shelter the people of the world?
Do we let people die of diseases in order to ensure that we have enough resources for the healthy and strong?

10. Ethical Dilemma
Do we continue to allow “congenitally insufficient organisms” that are alive only because they rely on medicine and social services to survive and have children?
Helping the unfortunate is obviously good, but at what cost?

11. Huxley’s Prediction
The progressive contamination of the human gene pool will create a world of morons

12. In the Brave New World No disease No starvation
Levels of intelligence are predetermined and manipulated before birth
Levels of society (castes)

13. WHAT ARE SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS?
Today’s World
Has the world changed since 1952?
Are we still concerned with eugenics or dysgenics?
WHAT ARE SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS?