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Socialized medicine and inbreeding. What could be better?
The UK has been having a debate about the virtues or evils of first cousin marriage largely because of its large Pakistani and other Muslim settler population where cousin marriage is a normal way of sealing tribal bonds and maintaining business relationships. It has other ‘negative’ consequences in a country with ‘free’ health care.
Researchers at the city’s university are entering their 18th year of the Born in Bradford study. It’s one of the biggest medical trials of its kind: between 2007 and 2010, researchers recruited more than 13,000 babies in the city and then followed them closely from childhood into adolescence and now into early adulthood. More than one in six children in the study have parents who are first cousins, mostly from Bradford’s Pakistani community, making it among the world’s most valuable studies of the health impacts of cousin marriage.
They found that even after factors like poverty were controlled for, a child of first cousins in Bradford had an 11% probability of being diagnosed with a speech and language problem, versus 7% for children whose parents are not related.
They also found a child of first cousins has a 54% chance of reaching a “good stage of development” (a government assessment given to all five year-olds in England), versus 64% for children whose parents are not related.
We get further insight into their poorer health through the number of visits to the GP. Children of first cousins have a third more primary care appointments than children whose parents are not related – an average of four instead of three a year.
What is notable is that even once you account for the children in that group who already have a diagnosed recessive disorder, the figures suggest consanguinity may be affecting even those children who don’t have a diagnosable recessive disorder.
In short, Pakistani Muslim tribal marriages are a huge drain on the National Health Service. There are calls for a ban on cousin marriage which is a typical socialist solution to everything, but a more sensible approach would be to say, “Marry your cousins, marry your brothers (Rep. Ilhan Omar) but then you’re no longer eligible for the NHS.”
Obviously not the way it’s going to go. The Economist sneered that any examination of cousin marriages was a “culture war”.
And the NHS is hailing how healthy cousin marriages are. Trust the science. The political science.
The NHS has been urged to apologise for publishing guidance extolling the benefits of first-cousin marriage despite the increased risk of birth defects.
Guidance published last week by the NHS England’s Genomics Education Programme says first-cousin marriage is linked to “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”.
“Genetic counselling, awareness-raising initiatives and public health campaigns are all important tools to help families make informed decisions without stigmatising certain communities and cultural traditions,” the guidance reads.
Certain communities. And if you name those communities, the copppers will be knocking on your door at midnight.
Remember when Obama wanted NASA to focus on Muslim self-esteem? PM Keir Starmer seems to want the NHS to focus on Muslim self-esteem too.
But in completely unrelated news.
A former Labour Party politician is now reportedly serving as a diversity officer for the NHS after previously being accused of attempting to cover up the ethnicity of mostly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs in Rotherham.
Trust the science. The sharia science.
That’s a lesser evil among others for the people who follow a genocidal pedophile and rapist psychopath.
They were warned in ”The Old Testament” about this, but of course Muslims know better.
Here are the results.
”When Cousins Marry”
Discover magazine has had 1 or 2 articles on cousin marriage. One of them looked at people in Easter Libya. They asserted cousin marriage might make sense pre-dentistry. That way kids get teeth sized to their jaws. In short there was less chance off being snaggle toothed and thus having abcesses.
They covered the Rothchilds and how cousin marriage preserved wealth. However they pointed out that there was no founder effect. when you have a founder effect and you do cousin marriages you are so screwed.
Before 2 centuries ago most people in Europe were cousin marriages since people married others within their village..
Newton married his cousin. He was smart, but i think there were problem with the grandkids..
I know of a case of sibling marriage. Kids came out alright. Grandkids not so much.. it skipped a gnerneration
After 20 years of being forced by government and “liberals” to live alongside “certain communities and cultural traditions”, my question about “stigmatizing” this one specific “community” is: WHY NOT? Why grovel?
Every time I see yet another agouti-faced hijabi muslima with a disturbingly simian partial mustache who’s wrapped head to toe in a Home Depot black garbage bag screeching like a howler monkey at some white teenage store clerk who couldn’t understand her pidgin gibberish, I picture an early Cro Magnon at a watering hole calmly observing a smelly hairy Australopithecus raving at him about the “injustice” of its evolutionary shortcomings; and I say to myself: I can’t believe I was ever sympathetic to animal rights.
Yesterday I watched a youtube vid of young people in Nepal, who called themselves the Gen Z Revolution, rioting in the streets of Kathmandu and burning down their government buildings because their elites were so openly contemptuous of them that they finally screamed ENOUGH! and torched their corrupt rulers. What a glorious sight that was.
That is one excellent rant. Made my breakfast entertaining.
The shocking numbers are the “not related” numbers.
1 in 14 kids will have speech or language difficulties
1 in 3 kids will not reach a “good stage of development”
If the 2/3rds that don’t make it to a good stage of development aren’t making it at all, then that 1 in 14 drops to less than 1 in 5 survivors having speech or language difficulties.
A government that cared about its people would be looking into that. So would a for profit health insurance company.
And at one time insurance companies did look at risks and address them. Insurance companies, for example, drove much of the safety enhancements in automobiles, they were the driving force behind boiler codes, Underwriter’s Laboratories, etc. However, if a person looks at how people are advanced in all sorts of enterprises, from government to education to utilities, they appear to be promoted based on things other than delivery of service. It’s a woke, stupid world, and just like genetics the flaws eventually reveal themselves.
One of the best examples of how even elementary probability theory has important practical implications. Basically if a couple share a defective gene, there is a 1/4 chance of passing the disease onto their kid, just like rolling the dice.
From the same BBC article: [Conservative MP Richard Holden] also explained that health effects can be “compounded” when the practice [first-cousin marriage] persists through generations.
It is what New Pakistan, the place formally known as the United Kingdom, can look forward to.
Next up, the U.K. legalizes men marrying six-year olds, and polygamy. Maybe the U.K. can mandate pubs sell Polygamy Porter to go so that a man can bring some home to his wives.
Not to mention having relations with goats and the like.
Early in 2002, the wife and I were in Britain at dinner, remarking on the recovery of a family friend form Hepatitis C. An NHS physician at an adjacent table told us we were mistaken, that Hep C was incurable. We told him that the NHS might be incurable, but that our friend had received the Interferon cocktail in Houston and was so fully recovered that he and his wife took a Caribbean cruise with us in November, 2011. The insufferable doc was unwilling even to countenance that he was ignorant of the treatment. Of course, all Americans are ignorant rubes, so he must have been right.
Thank you for sharing!
I’m glad your friend recovered.
I learned over the last 2 decades to never regard what a physician says as sacrosanct. They are very often wrong and ignorant about a great many things and I’m not just saying that for effect. I can cite several factual examples that cannot be disputed.
To some extent it’s not their fault. Why? Because what’s taught in most medical schools is largely determined and controlled by the AMA, food industry and the pharmaceutical industry.
FWIW: People would be taken aback if they knew the history of the AMA (American Medical Association) and it’s founding and how it came to dominate American medicine.
Excellent point. Mr. Rockefeller created that mess also with some self appointed expert. “first I will do no harm to my wallet.”
Cousin marriage?
It should be outlawed.
Regardless of the ‘studies’ – which could be tainted.
Require bacon and English while we’re at it.
Well, look at the Royal family and their cousins Kaiser Wilhelm and the Romanovs. Some success.
Marrying ones cousin increases the chance of producing a retarded child four fold, some 300%. Also average IQ in rural Afghanistan and Pakistan where cousin marriage has been going on for over a thousand years is 68 points.
if you have ever read the koran you will understand the end result of marrying your cousin . a more depraved pile of indecipherable drivel that has ever been penned . written [ arguably ] by a demon possessed individual . only those of similar procreation could believe it .
Well, let’s put it this way. Cousin marriage doesn’t INCREASE average intelligence of any offspring.