Sperm is 'a Vector'
Yep--a vector--that's what California professor Richard Cardullo said. He's the big-name biologist who recently gave a talk to a bunch of middle school students about how killing sperm can save the planet. Of course, this is the same guy federal agencies chose to help redevelop the way biological sciences are taught in this country. (More details here.)
But let's back up a minute. If you're like me, you're wondering: What's a vector, anyway? Time for a quiz on biological science vocabulary. Let's do multiple choice to make it more fun.
In biology, a vector is:
A.) A warp-drive calculation developed on the Starship Enterprise to aid four-dimensional space-time navigation.
B.) A middle-eastern sand weasel distantly related to the pygmy marmoset.
C.) An organism that transmits disease by conveying pathogens from one host to another.
I'll bet you can guess the answer.
P.S. Here's a bonus question--If sperm is a vector, then what does that make a baby?
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Apr '12
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His description may reduce middke school sex?
May '10
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What's your vector, Victor?Roger!Huh?
Apr '12
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Nathan Harden:
Better question: where's he getting a sample for populations that are rising without sperm?
That said, the "children are STDs" thing is an old joke that should not be translated into a working theory. My good English teacher, AKA "The Troll," would occasionally growl that he was surrounded by the most insidious of STDs... *sip of coffee, glare around the room*Children. (I thought it was funny, but at 17 I took myself much less seriously than most.)
Jun '12
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Unbelievable! And people pay big bucks to send their children to these poisonous institutes. Then we wonder how the culture ends up commandeered by radical zombies?
Nathan, both my husband and I read your book and we've told a number of people about it. It's a heavy load to deal with but I cannot thank you enough for your brave and important contribution. You sure did blow the lid off something wicked.
Along the lines of your book (for anyone who doesn't know, the book is: Sex & God at Yale), I was thinking that Joe & Jill Biden and even Michelle Obama have all made remarks that strike me as a “porn whistle.” Usually among college audiences. Has that thought occurred to you? Yeah, I really think they are not only that desperate, but they know how hard core American colleges have become (perhaps they've read your book), and they might as well try to hook up with the extra lubricant crowd for some votes.
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-God-Yale-Political-Correctness/dp/0312617909/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348551533&sr=8-1&keywords=sex+%26+god+at+yale
Jun '10
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There's nothing new here, this guy's late to the party.
Obamacare already provides free contraception under the heading of "preventative care." Therefore, it must prevent some public health risk. And since what it prevents is conception, it follows that population growth must be the public health risk being prevented. QED.
Nov '10
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"Everything within the state; nothing outside the state."
Nov '11
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The cure for the professor's mental disease is Julian Simon's book, The Ultimate Resource.
Edited on September 25, 2012 at 3:44pmJan '11
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Mendel
I agree that Prof. Cardullo is depicting pregnancy and childbirth as a blight on society.
As someone who works with vectors (both pathogenic and not) every day in the lab, and is constantly defending conservatives from colleagues' charges that they misunderstand science, I just wanted to set the terminological record straight.
Hear, hear.
Jun '12
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I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like something early teens spread among themselves. And he got paid how much for this ?
Jul '10
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The whole vector thing starts to grow on you when you realize that utopiots like this one are a direct result of the transmission of sperm. One of the problems with Eugenics is the practitioners keep giving us ideas on what to do about them, although they would apply their methods elsewhere.
Aug '10
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Is it a coincidence that this article was published just yesterday?
It's probably just a coincidence.
Jul '10
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A punishment, if you ask the President.