{"id":57251,"date":"2017-05-09T04:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/straight-out-of-the-nazi-playbook-hindu-nationalists-try-to-engineer-genius-babies-in-india"},"modified":"2017-05-09T04:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:42:29","slug":"straight-out-of-the-nazi-playbook-hindu-nationalists-try-to-engineer-genius-babies-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/straight-out-of-the-nazi-playbook-hindu-nationalists-try-to-engineer-genius-babies-in-india","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Straight out of the Nazi playbook\u2019: Hindu nationalists try to engineer \u2018genius\u2019 babies in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/straight-out-of-the-nazi-playbook-hindu-nationalists-try-to-engineer-genius-babies-in-india.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of a Hindu far-right organization called Arogya Bharati say they are working with expectant couples in the country to produce \u201ccustomized\u201d babies, who, they hope, will be taller, fairer and smarter than other babies, according to a report in the Indian Express newspaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group\u2019s health officials claimed that their program \u2014 a combination of diet, ayurvedic medicine and other practices \u2014 has led to 450 of these babies, and they hope to have \u201cthousands\u201d more by 2020, the report said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parents may have lower IQ, with a poor educational background, but their baby can be extremely bright. If the proper procedure is followed, babies of dark-skinned parents with lesser height can have fair complexion and grow taller,\u201d Hitesh Jani, the group\u2019s national convener, told the newspaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2017\/05\/08\/straight-out-of-the-nazi-playbook-hindu-nationalists-try-to-engineer-genius-babies-in-india\/?utm_term=.1b80d248f351&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2017\/05\/08...bow&wpmm=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMembers of a Hindu far-right organization called Arogya Bharati say they are working with expectant couples in the country to produce \u201ccustomized\u201d babies, who, they hope, will be taller, fairer and smarter than other babies, according to a report in the Indian Express newspaper.\u201d \u201cThe group\u2019s health officials claimed that their program \u2014 a combination [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}