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Eugenics in action:

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities.

In a 2022 report, the institute said that because the tests were not adapted to take cultural differences into account, Greenlandic parents ran “the risk of obtaining low test scores, so that it is concluded, for example, that they have reduced cognitive abilities, without there being actual evidence for this."

Psychological assessments of her were made by a Danish-speaking psychologist. Kronvold, whose first language is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), is not fluent in Danish.

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I think it happens often enough when someone rich and/or famous becomes disabled or has a disabled kid. See the whole world of alternative treatments for autism.

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With a touch of, and maybe I’m being mean, “this particular bad thing shouldn’t happen to someone like me! it must be that no one else tried hard enough to fix it till now”

I thought it was particularly telling that he says someone else in the “metabolic health” world warned him not to be mean about RFK. Take that as a sign that you’re in kooksville!

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It’s very “should RFK Jr become a completely different person to the person he is and has been for years, he could really do some great stuff”

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Please sneer at this article. I thought it was pissweak myself.

Edit: “Hear me out: RFK Jr could be a transformational health secretary”

Will a Republican-controlled Congress allow for more government regulation – even if it saves lives?

No. Next question.

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We’re going to be answering two essay questions in an in-class test instead of writing a paper this year specifically to prevent chat gpt abuse. Which he laughed and joked about because he really believes chat gpt can produce good results !

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It was there and gone fairly quickly and I wouldn’t say I’m a model student so I didn’t say anything. I’ve talked to him about Chat GPT before though…

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He’s using it to give examples of exam question answers. The embarrassment

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My professor is typing questions into chat gpt in class rn be so fucking for real

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