Doctor's baffled by remote Indian village with over 200 pairs of twins

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090805/lf_nm_life/us_india_twins_4

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[Moderator]

I think describing it as a "virgin village" might be a bit of a misnomer. :biggrin2:

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Thankee for posting that, Lencho,very interesting!

I see the survey was carried out by TAKA.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Charms7]

I knew it! I always knew it was "something in the water" that caused the stork to arrive on your doorstep!:eek2:

[creator]

It's maybe because that village is a relatively small and closed area and there are many close kinship ties(?)

[Jake Featherston]

I believe I read several articles about this. There's pretty substantial evidence that the reproductive systems of these people were altered by a South American Nazi fugitive from the Third Reich. I think its believed the "itinerant doctor" who would occasionally visit the village in question was Dr. Josef Mengele. Assuming this is the same village I read about a few months ago, and I'm pretty sure it is.

[Ebdim9th]

Yes, but with 1940's technology, what would he have been able to do to them? A knowledge of the existance of DNA was still a few years away, and we still dont know how to manipulate DNA in such advanced ways. Also the oldest twins were 65, and plus nine months that would have been roughly in 1943, a time when Hitler and his cronies were still sure of victory, and Mengele himself still spending all his time operating the death camps...

[Jake Featherston]

Yes, but with 1940's technology, what would he have been able to do to them?

He wasn't using 1940s technology; these events occurred during the 1970s.

[Ebdim9th]

Sure, I can understand that.. but the oldest living twins, there were others before them, were still in their mid-Sixties. Doesnt mean a proclivity wasnt artificially stimulated and exploited in the seventies, but I guess that depends on how long this has gone on in that village and to what extent.