Comments on: Fundie nightmare words mashed together to form futuristic super-Satan drug

By: Entomologista

Entomologista — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:00:15 +0000

Ugh, this is why biology should be mandatory for everybody. RNA is the intermediate between gene and protein:

DNA —–> RNA ——> protein product

Interrupting RNA production isn’t permanent, or bad, or scary. Our cells do it themselves all the time. After all, you don’t want every single gene active at all times. So it wouldn’t be sterilization and it wouldn’t make all women everywhere infertile. You can’t “catch” the effects of the birth control we have now from another woman, so what makes you think this would spread either? But it seems like this could open up another avenue of research into BC for men: why not look at the proteins in sperm that allow them to burrow into eggs, recognize eggs, etc?

By: JasonC

JasonC — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:56:56 +0000

this all has a kinda of ‘children of men’ feeling to it.

By: punkass marc

punkass marc — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:24:05 +0000

hey antigone,

it’s reversible, so it can’t be done permanently.

By: Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:14:55 +0000

When oh when will they come up with more BC options for men?

By: Antigone

Antigone — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:13:58 +0000

Okay, on the one hand: SUPER SWEET! If they could entirely shut off my fertility, particularily without pulling out my uterus, GREAT.

On the other hand, the history of steralization is not pleasant. I could see some fear of conducting this on “undesirable” groups as part of genocide.