May

13

Is modern medicine beneficial for the overall advancement of the human race?

Filed Under Kim Leoni | 4 Comments

michael552000 asked:


I hope I’m not sounding like a **** or anything, but if modern medicine is allowing people that possess genes that would normally not allow them to be able to survive to reproductive age and reproduce, aren’t those ‘bad’ genes being passed on to the next generation?

And wouldn’t this mean that the human gene pool is becoming worse off due to modern medicine?

I’m not saying that we should stop trying to find the cure for cancer or anything, but am I the only one that is concerned about this?

Joseph