{"id":4326,"date":"2006-06-19T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2011-01-31T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T09:53:11","slug":"the-genius-sperm-bank-was-ethically-questionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/the-genius-sperm-bank-was-ethically-questionable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genius Sperm Bank was Ethically Questionable"},"content":{"rendered":"

American millionaire Robert Klark Graham created a Genius Sperm Bank in order to “breed-out” the “retrograde humans”.<\/p>\n

Graham apparently missed his target time period<\/a> and was sore about that ever since.<\/p>\n

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He was a millionaire who dreamed of saving humanity using the sperm of geniuses. But what became of Robert Klark Graham’s master plan?<\/p>\n

In the late 1970s, in a underground bunker on his ranch near San Diego, American millionaire Robert Klark Graham set up the world’s most controversial sperm bank known as the Repository for Germinal Choice.<\/p>\n

Already famous as the inventor of the shatterproof spectacle lens, 70-year-old Graham was set to turn his hand to a much more infamous career.<\/p>\n

He believed that “retrograde humans” were breeding unchecked. He wanted to reverse this trend by bringing thousands of geniuses into the world, fathered by the most brilliant minds. Single-handedly he dreamed of saving humanity using the sperm of clever men<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

A product of this dubious effort, Doron Blake, has wisdom that soared beyond the Genius Bank’s creator.<\/p>\n

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“I turned out very well, my IQ was off the charts and basically I was everything Robert Graham wanted,” he says.<\/p>\n

“Throughout my life I’ve felt I’ve not had to work as hard for the level of achievement that I’ve reached as most of my peers did.<\/p>\n

“I don’t usually broadcast the fact that I came from a sperm bank because I don’t think it’s that interesting. People find out when it comes up.”<\/p>\n

But Doron is not convinced by Graham’s grand plan for creating more intelligent people.<\/p>\n

“As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t matter how a child is made in terms of the genes and chromosomes of it, it’s how the child was raised and nurtured that really matters.” <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

( via warren ellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American millionaire Robert Klark Graham created a Genius Sperm Bank in order to “breed-out” the “retrograde humans”. Graham apparently missed his target time period and was sore about that ever since. He was a millionaire who dreamed of saving humanity using the sperm of geniuses. But what became of Robert Klark Graham’s master plan? In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3864],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-sperm-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15442,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/15442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}