Darwin was right, vaccines will wipe us out

Written by Professor Edward Dutton - on May 11, 2026. Posted in Current News

As I have explored in my book Breeding the Human Herd: Eugenics, Dysgenics and the Future of the Species, we laboured under harsh Darwinian conditions until the Industrial Revolution. Child mortality was somewhere in the region of 40 per cent.

This meant that every generation the gene pool was being purged of mutant genes; of genetic copying errors that – considering how fine-tuned we are to our environment – almost always make us less fit. Under these conditions, we were strongly selecting for genetic health and, in particular, for a strong immune system which could fight off disease and infection.

Mental illness, and mental defects more generally, are comorbid with physical illness and are generally in the region of 50 per cent genetic according to twin studies. On average, those with serious mental health problems are more likely to have physical health problems. This makes sense, as the brain, highly complex as it is, is about 84 per cent of the genome, meaning it is a massive target for mutation. If you have high mutational load in the brain then you are, surely, going to have high mutational load in the body.

In addition, intelligence – in essence, the ability to solve complex problems combined with how quickly you can solve them – has broadly been under positive selection for thousands of years, according to analyses of ancient genomes that have looked at the prevalence across time of gene forms (polymorphisms) that are associated with intelligence.

Intelligence predicts socio-economic status and, until the Industrial Revolution, there was a positive association between this and how many surviving children you had, as wealth meant better living conditions. Analyses of parish records from 17th century England found that the richer 50 per cent of parishioners had double the completed fertility (number of surviving children) of the poorer 50 per cent. This selection for intelligence was reflected in societies becoming more literate and numerate and even heads becoming bigger, as brain size is associated with intelligence; the brain being a thinking muscle.

Under Darwinian conditions, traits which are selected for become bundled together in a process known as ‘pleiotropy’. So, we have a ‘fitness factor’ that was being selected for which included, among other traits, physical health, mental health and intelligence and, in modern samples, these are all inter-correlated. It is obvious what the development of vaccines is going to do to this: it is going to weaken Darwinian selection heavily for general fitness and, therefore, lead to a higher percentage of people who are physically and mentally ill and of low intelligence.

In his 1871 book The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin was one of the first to draw attention to this problem: ‘We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination . . . There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.’

This is what vaccination has led to. By about 1900, using socio-economic status as a proxy, there was no longer a positive association between intelligence and fertility in the UK and, since then, the association between fertility and the fitness factor has become negative; we are breeding for poor genetic health and genetic lower intelligence.

We are losing about 1.5 points per decade for genetic reasons alone; 15 points is the difference between a science teacher and a science professor. This, of course, means that if intelligence falls so low that we cannot sustain our complex and fragile healthcare system, a massive proportion of the population would be too genetically sick to fight off resurgent conditions such as smallpox. The result would be death on an unprecedented scale.

Of course, as long as technology manages to outpace genetic decline, developed peoples would be able to survive. But it is almost certain that one day something will happen that wipes out our ability to sustain our healthcare system. In September 1859, two months before Darwin published On the Origin of Species, there was the so-called Carrington Event.

This was a massive solar flare, so enormous that there were displays of Aurora Borealis as far south as the tropics. It completely knocked out the nascent electricity system of the time: telegraph machines caught fire and the operators were injured. What would happen if something like this happened today? Or the if earth’s magnetic field collapsed? Or if we were hit by a meteorite?

Our population is so huge because of the products of the Industrial Revolution: modern medicine but also fertiliser and factory farming. There would be mass death and mass vaccination would be a key reason why. Even in the American Revolutionary War, British soldiers, having grown up in a more densely populated country, were less likely to contract infectious disease than the colonists. This is because they had obtained lifetime immunity to smallpox by surviving it as children.

The problem with vaccines is not that they cause the recipients to have poor health. The problem is that they cause the population, over time, to become decreasingly genetically healthy. This also changes the nature of society. As I’ve explored in Breeding the Human Herd, we were selecting for people who were pro-social and group-oriented, as these groups are more likely to survive the battle of group selection. Studies find that leftists, compared with conservatives, are mentally unstable, selfish and evidence markers of mutational load, such as asymmetrical faces. Woke is a revolt by the genetically sick against the genetically healthy. Vaccines also mean that when the collapse comes, which it always does in some form, it will be catastrophic, with hardly any survivors, as there will be so few healthy people. Will the West be remembered as gods by obscure tropical tribe as per the theories of Graham Hancock in Fingerprints of the Gods?

I think some kind of collapse is essentially inevitable, because to prevent it would mean suppressing traits such as kindness and sympathy; these are so strong that we just cannot do that, so we will continue to vaccinate for as long as we can. But there is one bit of hope.

As I’ve explored in my book Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism, when you just examine the more intelligent whites then the big predictor of fertility is conservatism and traditional religiosity and these are both significantly genetic. Intelligent Woke people are resigning gradually from the gene pool, induced to do so because they value the material over having children, they see life as meaningless and they feel guilty for being white or human. This selects for those that are, genetically, religious, conservative and, on average, healthy. This means that a conservative elite and its followers may escape the chaos and keep some kind of healthy civilisation going, so that any collapse is less appalling.

Interestingly, Darwin observed that we will keep vaccinating due to our strongly evolved ‘sympathy’, but he held out hope that something like ‘Woke Eugenics’ would take place: ‘We must therefore bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely that the weaker and inferior members of society do not marry so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage, though this is more to be hoped for than expected.’

source  www.conservativewoman.co.uk