Is the human race with modern medecine not evolving downward?

Thank you Wayne That was helpful although to me more in the side effects
than in your main point

Dawsonzhu@aol.com wrote:
> One thing is that you're confusing the meaning of descent (expressed
> as a direction), and descent (expressed as ancestry), as already pointed
> out.
Could someone on the list please explain to me why at least for humans,
descent is not true in both senses. Both modern medicine and things
like controlled environments seem to be allowing individuals to survive
to have children that in the past would not have occurred. I realize
that controlled environments are a mixed blessing, but at least having
heat when the temperature is -30 out, does help lung conditions. . For
example I have serious asthma and have had so since at least 5 years of
age. In my senior year of high school we were at emerg at least two
nights of most weeks getting adrenaline shots and that was when my
atomizer, pills and allergy shots failed to control things. Between
ages of 16 and 23 I was determined not to have children and still at
times wonder if I did right when I see allergies in my children and
grandchildren.

Also in Canada at least some doctors used to actively terminate infants
with problems. My grandfather told the story of expressing concern
about deformed children and his doctor said to trust him and that such a
child would not live. There was a small grave in the back part of the
lot of one of my grandparents homes. Also at the end of the summer just
prior to attending UniWat engineering I had asthma to the point I would
pass out from lack of oxygen. Our (Christian?) doctor gave me a fairly
big dose of demerol. I was hospitalized for at least ten days and our
doctor was never allowed to see me. All my friends who were just
entering second year nursing came and told me never to see him again
since someone with active asthma should never be given demerol, morphine
etc. If one read between the lines my doctor in Waterloo at University
said exactly the same thing. Most of the time I beleive this was a case
of attempted retroactive abortion, sometimes I can be more charitable
and attribute it to the uppers and downers that our doctor was addicted
to and also got some of his patients on. When the same doctor had
removed my tonsils he found that I was very allergic to demerol so he
seems without excuse. He told my parents it was a mistake, I never saw
his again.

Dave Wallace
Received on Sat Mar 25 15:36:23 2006